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Wow! Blue Jays–Astros No-Hitter! | Defector
The visiting Blue Jays trailed the Houston Astros 10-0 on Monday night when Toronto’s Isiah Kiner-Falefa, to that point the team’s third baseman, stepped to the pitcher’s mound for the bottom of the eighth. This would be 29-year-old Kiner-Falefa’s mere fifth career appearance as a pitcher, but he has already written himself into hurling history: …
Han Sung-ok: Was this North Korean defector failed by the South?
Image caption Han Sung-ok has the recognition in death she never received in life Han Sung-ok, 42, seemed determined to pick through nearly every lettuce on the market stand. She turned each one over and examined it while her six-year-old son clambered on the fence nearby. The vegetable seller in the southern Seoul suburb looked …
North Korea defector escapes by floating down river
The soldiers monitoring the foggy scene thought it was flotsam, perhaps a small ball. It turned out to be a defecting North Korean soldier. “The North Korean soldier came down the river with only his head above the water,” Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff explained on Thursday, according to the South Korean Ministry of Defense. …
