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N. Korea says trial of two U.S. journalists will begin 3 p.m. SEOUL, June 4 (Yonhap) -- North Korea's highest court will begin trial of two U.S. journalists at 3 p.m., the official Korean Central News Agency said Thursday. "The Central Court of the DPRK will start a trial of American journalists Laura Ling and Seung-eun Lee from 3 p.m. Thursday on the basis of the indictment already brought against them," the one-sentence report said. The female reporters were detained on the border with China on March 17. North Korea accused them of illegally entering the country and committing unspecified...

I came into the newsroom Friday morning and expected to see a lot of long faces. We liberals had taken such a whipping on Thursday that the Friday paper was filled with bad news. I'm sure our night staff worked hard to slant things, but sometimes things go so badly that even the valiant efforts of the left-leaning Main Stream Media aren't enough to hide the truth.

Raid Illustrates Chechen Desperation By DEBORAH SEWARD .c The Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) - As the war in Chechnya drags on, acts of desperation committed by Chechen rebels furious at the destruction of their homeland have grown even more brutal, pushing them closer to extremist Islam and creating a new generation ready to kill innocent civilians for their cause. Gone are the days when future rebel field commander Shamil Basayev pranced in a leather coat and brimmed hat around the Chechen capital, Grozny, just after Chechnya had declared independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, boasting of his success in...