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NEW YORK – A Harvard University sophomore with a highly publicized first novel acknowledged Monday that she had borrowed material, accidentally, from another author’s work and promised to change her book for future editions. Kaavya Viswanathan‘s “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life,” published in March …

BUCHAREST, Romania – Thousands of people were evacuated from areas threatened by the surging Danube on Tuesday as Europe‘s second-longest river continued to rise. By midday, 3,500 residents had been evacuated from communities in western Romania. About 10,000 more were expected to be forced from their homes. President Traian Basescu …

SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea’s No. 2 leader vowed Friday to strengthen the country’s “military deterrent force” in response to an American policy it considers hostile, the nation’s official news agency said. North Korea usually refers to its purported nuclear weapons as “deterrent force.” North Korean officials often use …