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North Korean ‘ghost ships’ on the rise in Japan

On Monday, a wooden boat crewed by 8 North Koreans landed on Japan’s shore. They were all dead. Two more bodies were found on Japan’s Sado Island just days before. During November, three more boats were intercepted. One of these boats had a living crew, another dead and living, and another
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Indonesia mass murders were known to U.S. officials

Washington, DC The U.S. Government provided support to Indonesia while up to one million suspected communist sympathizers were being killed by the island nation’s military, according to newly declassified American documents from the 1960’s. The declassified materials contain 30,000 documents from the U.S. embassy in Jakarta that indicate American officials knew about
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2 Kiwi species no longer endangered in new Red List

The latest update to the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources' (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species upgraded the status of the birds from "endangered" to "vulnerable" because of a steady increase in population.The IUCN is a global body that evaluates the existential threat to various animals and plants. Their findings, published in
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The struggle to save the ‘badly shot’ North Korean soldier

"I was informed that he was badly shot by North Koreans," Lee said, reliving the complex chain of events that brought North Korean defector Oh Chong Song to his trauma unit on November 13.Lee says he went to meet his critically injured patient on the helipad, just a few hundred feet from the state-of-the-art, US-modeled trauma center he runs at Ajou University Hospital in