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US official: NKorea OKs nuke inspection demands (AP)
11 10 2008

In this undated photo released by Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service in Tokyo Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, wearing glasses, stands with uniformed soldiers during his visit to a military unit in unknown location of North Korea. North Korea released pictures of Kim on Saturday for the first time in nearly two months. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service)

AP - North Korea has agreed to all U.S. nuclear inspection demands, allowing the Bush administration to remove the communist country from a U.S. terrorism blacklist, The Associated Press has learned.

Official: 500 Christian families flee Iraq's Mosul (AP)
11 10 2008

A fourteen year old boy reacts next to his injured father Sheik Azad Khurshid, a Sunni imam, at a hospital in Kirkuk, Iraq, Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008. Sheik was injured when a bomb planted underneath his car exploded, police said. (AP Photo/Emad Matti)

AP - An upswing in insurgent attacks against Christians in Mosul has forced 500 families to flee in the last week and seek shelter at churches, monasteries and relatives' homes, the governor of northern Iraq's Ninevah province said Saturday.

Quake kills 4 in Russia's Chechnya region (Reuters)
11 10 2008 Reuters - Four people were killed in Russia's Chechnya region Saturday when an earthquake shook the Caucasus mountains, the Emergencies Ministry said.

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