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BEIJING – Japan and China agreed Sunday that a North Korea nuclear test “cannot be tolerated” and that Pyongyang should return unconditionally to six-party negotiations on its nuclear programs, the Japanese prime minister said. Shinzo Abe, speaking to reporters at the end of a day of meetings in Beijing, said …

SEATTLE – A magnitude 4.5 earthquake rattled homes east of Mount Rainier on Saturday night, but no injuries or damage were immediately reported. The quake struck just before 8 p.m. about 7 miles east of the mountain’s summit, said Tom Yelin of the University of Washington Seismology Laboratory. Yelin said …

VIENNA, Austria – Afghanistan‘s opium production has soared “out of control,” the U.N. drugs and crime agency warned Tuesday, adding that proceeds from the opium harvest were being used to fund the resurgent Taliban. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime is calling on NATO and Afghan troops to …