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Australian counter-terrorist police Tuesday arrested four people in raids that foiled a Somali-linked plot to launch a suicide attack on a military base, senior officers said. The men of Somali and Lebanese descent were arrested in the southeastern state of Victoria in an operation involving about 400 police, they said, adding... 

SEOUL (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton arrived in North Korea on Tuesday to try to negotiate the release of two U.S. journalists convicted by the communist state of "grave crimes," South Korea's Yonhap news agency said. The visit comes at a time of increasing militancy in the reclusive North which analysts say... 

Authorities have sealed off a remote far-western town of 10,000 people after two people died of pneumonic plague, state media said on Monday, but the World Health Organisation said such outbreaks were nothing new. Another 10 people had contracted the disease in the ethnically Tibetan region of the sparsely populated province...