The Russian men's Olympic ice hockey team is hoping to atone for its poor showing four years ago at the Vancouver Olympics in Canada, while the Canadians will try to defend their title and the U.S. aims for gold after a silver medal in 2010. Presumably in a show of solidarity, the entire Russian men's Olympic Ice Hockey team showed up for its pre-tournament news conference at the main Press Center in Sochi. And they drew the biggest media crowd for any of the formal...
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
NORTH KOREA and SOUTH KOREA hold a rare meeting
High-ranking officials from North and South Korea met in a border village on Wednesday in their highest level talks in years. The meeting had no set agenda. It was requested by Pyongyang, leading optimists to speculate that it could be a sign the communist regime wants to improve ties with South Korea after pulling back from a flurry of belligerent rhetoric last year. The two Koreas plan reunions later this month for families separated in the 1950-53 Korean War.
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