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SEOUL (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton arrived in North Korea on Tuesday to try to negotiate the release of two U.S. journalists convicted by the communist state of "grave crimes," South Korea's Yonhap news agency said. The visit comes at a time of increasing militancy in the reclusive North which analysts say... 

Authorities have sealed off a remote far-western town of 10,000 people after two people died of pneumonic plague, state media said on Monday, but the World Health Organisation said such outbreaks were nothing new. Another 10 people had contracted the disease in the ethnically Tibetan region of the sparsely populated province... 

By Paggie Leung from South China Morning Post Despite suffering nearly a year of emotional distress, Lehman Brothers minibonds investor Ho Chiu-kuen is determined not to accept the latest payout settlement agreed by banks and regulators. "It's not about how much banks are going to repay us - of course we'd be happier if we could...