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Tony Kim is one of the three Americans being held captive by North Korea. (Reuters)

Freedom can come with remarkable swiftness for US citizens held prisoner by North Korea, an experience that may await three Americans currently detained by the reclusive nation.

After months and even years of

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NASA's InSight will reveal how rocky planets like the Earth formed billions of years ago (Reuters)

Vandenberg Air Force Base:  NASA on Saturday blasted off its latest Mars lander, InSight, designed to perch on the surface and listen for "Marsquakes" ahead of eventual human missions to explore the Red
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Anti-North Korea civic group released balloons containing leaflets denouncing Kim Jong Un. (Reuters)

SEOUL/PAJU, South Korea:   Days after a historic inter-Korean summit Lee Min-bok, a defector who has been flying anti-Pyongyang leaflets into the North for 15 years, received a call from an official at
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An aerial view of the .National Security Agency (NSA) headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland.

Washington:  The US National Security Agency collected 534 million records of phone calls and text messages of Americans last year, more than triple gathered in 2016, a US intelligence agency report released on
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Hassan Rouhani's powers are dwarfed by those of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. (File)

Dubai:  Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has criticised the ban imposed on popular messaging app Telegram by the conservative-run judiciary, saying the move was "the opposite of democracy".

Iran blocked Telegram

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Charlie Rose was sacked after eight women leveled sexual harassment accusations against him. (File)

New York, United States:  Three former junior female colleagues sued disgraced television anchor Charlie Rose and CBS News on Friday for discrimination, harassment and retaliation, seeking unspecified
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