South Koreans Prepare Reunions With North Kin
In Seoul hundreds of South Koreans set to greet long lost relatives in North Korea as 100 people from each side participate in planned reunions. Oh Hyong-jae, a Seoul professor, hopes to share photos and memories with his North Korean brother, poet Oh Young Jae, who rose to fame as a state laureate. The brothers last met in 1950 as war tore their hometown Kangjin apart, and both sides have since pursued limited contact amid cross border gestures following a 1990s exchange and a Pyongyang summit.
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Seoul
Kwak Ang Soon
Oh Hyong-jae
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South Korea
Koreas
Kangjin
Protestants march in Londonderry amid tense sectarian parade
More than 20 000 Protestants filled Londonderry streets on a Saturday march with British flags and banners saying No Surrender to mark the Apprentice Boys parade. Catholics mostly stayed home. a few hundred walked from Bog Side as beer bottles flew. Governor Alistair Simpson defended negotiating with militant Catholics to keep the peace as the parade moved from the Bog Side to the Protestant east.
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Northern Ireland
Londonderry
Apprentice Boys Brotherhood
River Foyle
James I
James
Toilay
Alistair Simpson
Simpson
Envoy denies Libyan ransom offer for hostages
Negotiators on Saturday denied reports that Libya offered a 25 million dollar ransom for hostages held by Muslim rebels in the southern Philippines. The Libyan envoy Mohamad Ismail was reported by An-Nahar to be ready to pay, but he denied the claim.
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Digest
Libya
Philippines
Beirut
An-Nahar
Manila
Mohamad Ismail
Ismail
Jim Corbett
California
Monterey Peninsula
Poppy Hills
Corbett
Brookline
Mass
Jose Maria Olazabal
Mark James
Robert Brown
Freeland
Wash
Brown
Nine Killed in Kashmir Clashes as Militants and Army Clash
In Kashmir, clashes between Islamic militants and Indian forces left nine dead and four women injured by a grenade blast. Six militants and an army captain were killed in an ambush at Pir Bhadesar, 125 miles northwest of Jammu, while two militants fell to soldiers in Poonch, 140 miles northwest of Jammu. No army casualties reported.
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Kashmir
Pir Bhadesar
Jammu
Poonch
Thousands pay tribute to Basque separatists in Bilbao
Thousands in Bilbao gathered Saturday to honor four young Basque separatists who detonated explosives while preparing an attack. Police feared clashes with ETA opponents, but the rally proceeded peacefully amid chants of Long live ETA.
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ETA
Bilbao
Spain
Magazine reshapes golf culture withMaximum Golf magazine
The piece surveys a new breed of golfers and a controversial magazine Maximum Golf that promotes flamboyant play and party culture on courses. It contrasts editor Michiel Caruso’s vision with traditional etiquette and notable voices like Tiger Woods, Ben Hogan, and Harvey Penick, noting mixed reception and a potential surge in casual players.
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Fringegolf.com
Knollwood Country Club
Lake Forest
Lil
The
New Yorker
Vanity Fair
Details
Talk
Caruso
Tiger Woods
Michael Jordan
Tommy Lee
Sylvester Stallone
St. Andrews
Maximum
Woody Harford
British Airways
Samir Hugin
University of Mississippi
Husni
Vince Neil
Alice Cooper
Will McCulloch
Robert Trent Jones
Michael Caruso
Ben Hogan
U.S. Golf Association Museum
Far Hills
Ben
Andy Mutch
Hogan
Bobby Jones
Scotland
Maximum Golf
Guar
Tigermania Omaybe
America
Harvey Penick
Hoe
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