China cheers first Miss World title
China gave a cheer to its first Miss World on
Sunday, with Internet chat rooms filled with praise for the
23-year-old beauty queen. Zhang Zilin, a Beijing secretary who was
born in the gritty northern industrial city of Shijiazhuang,
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Seoul offers to use North Korean nuclear fuel rods
South Korea is proposing to use North Korean nuclear fuel
rods, to be removed from a reactor under a six-nation disarmament deal,
for South Korean power plants, a news report said Sunday.
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Russians vote for parliament, Putin’s future
Russians voted yesterday in a parliamentary
election expected to hand President Vladimir Putin’s party a
crushing majority and boost his bid to retain authority after
leaving the Kremlin.
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