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China to beef up inspections at NKorean border
China will step up inspections along its border with North Korea during the Olympics to try to reduce the growing number of North Korean migrants, an official of South Korea's spy agency said Tuesday.  US offers nuclear proposal to North KoreaThe United States has proposed a mechanism for verifying North Korea's claims about its nuclear past, Washington's top envoy to the nuclear talks said Monday.
Commerce chief pushes trade deals at Savannah port
U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez pressed Congress on Monday to approve three free-trade agreements backed by the president, saying legislators are costing exporters millions of dollars.  Taiwan's former president testifies in libel caseTaiwan's former president testified Monday that he was blameless in a libel case brought against him, but first had to pass angry opponents shouting at him outside the courthouse and a man who reportedly kicked him in the rear end.
Rice shrugs at meeting with top NKorean envoy
The United States and North Korea are about to have their highest-level face-to-face contact in four years, but Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says it's no big deal.
Without Wie, Oh wins State Farm in playoff
When a red-eyed Michelle Wie left the clubhouse at Panther Creek Country Club on Saturday, it looked like she took all the drama the State Farm Classic had to offer with her.  Sun Myung Moon released from hospitalThe founder of the Unification Church was released from a South Korean hospital Sunday, a day after he and 15 others were injured when their helicopter crashed on a mountain near Seoul.  For better or worse, McCain wedded to town hallsJohn McCain was in his favorite campaign setting, a town hall meeting, when he spotted a promising target. "I'd love to recognize you first, sir," the Republican presidential candidate said to a man in a Vietnam War veteran's hat.
Some foreign-born US Olympians
Some of the foreign-born athletes who will be competing for the United States at the Olympics in Beijing next month, listed by sport with country of birth in parentheses:
Sprint shares fall as SK deal questioned
The general discounting of a televised report that SK Telecom Corp. is negotiating to buy Sprint Nextel Corp. led Sprint shares Wednesday to give back some of the big gains they posted when the news surfaced a day before.
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