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clear tests, long-range rocket launches and attacks blamed on the North that killed 50 South Koreans in 2010.
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US whistleblower tests US, China's leaders new ties after informal summit
• BEIJING (AP) -- Weekend revelations that an American whistleblower holed up in Hong Kong has given an early test to the new working relationship the presidents of the U.S. and China tried to forge just a day earlier.
• Chinese leader Xi Jinping and President Barack Obama, meeting informally at an estate in the California desert, sought to build a personal relationship and to engage on the many high-stakes issues harrying ties between the world's two largest economies, ranging from cyberspying and economic competition to North Korea's nuclear threats.
• A day after their summit ended with pledges of cooperation, reports surfaced that an American source who exposed highly sensitive U.S. government surveillance programs had been making his revelations from the Chinese territory of Hong Kong.
• The leaks have special resonance in China, which has long chafed at U.S. accusations that it carries out extensive surveillance on American government and commercial operations. Beijing has its own complaints about being targeted by U.S. military surveillance.
• "It's going to be seen by both sides as an unwelcome distraction," said Jean-Pierre Cabestan, a China politics expert at the Hong Kong Baptist University.
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Brutal Papua New Guinea witch hunts mask jealousy in nation with deep belief in black magic
• CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- On a tropical island in Papua New Guinea where most people live in huts, a mob armed with guns, machetes and axes stormed a wooden house by night. They seized Helen Rumbali and three female relatives, set the building on fire and took the women away to be tortured. Their alleged crime: Witchcraft.
• After being repeatedly slashed with knives, Rumbali's older sister and two teenage nieces were released following negotiations with police. Rumbali, a 40-something former schoolteacher, was beheaded.
• Her assailants claimed they had clear proof that Rumbali had used sorcery to kill another villager who recently died of sickness: The victim's grave bore the marks of (Continued on page 27)
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