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BEIJING – North Korea (search) on Sunday criticized Japan’s new defense guidelines, saying that Tokyo (search) has joined “U.S. vicious hostile policy” toward its communist state. The statement came after top U.S. and Japanese officials expressed deep concern about North Korea’s nuclear programs, and pressed Pyongyang (search) to soon resume …

LOS ANGELES – Authorities shot and killed a male tiger Wednesday that had been roaming the hills near the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library (search). The 425-pound cat was shot several hundred yards from soccer and baseball fields at the edge of a housing development, said Lorna Bernard, a spokeswoman for …

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Ibrahim al-Jaafari (search), the head of a religious party who fought Saddam Hussein (search) and took refuge in Iran for a decade, was chosen Tuesday as the dominant Shiite ticket’s candidate for prime minister — making him the overwhelming favorite for the post. Al-Jaafari’s selection came after …