Nonprofit: North Korea orchestra coming to US

ATLANTA (AP) ? An Atlanta-based nonprofit is planning to bring North Korea's national orchestra to the U.S. for a tour that would start in Atlanta, according to the group's president.

The North Korean National Symphony Orchestra is planning a concert in Atlanta this spring followed by a tour of several other cities, said Robert Springs, the president of Global Resource Services, a humanitarian group that works in North Korea.

He said he hopes the visit will take place in the spring but that the details are still being worked out and the visit is still awaiting government approval. Springs' group has sent three musical groups to North Korea over the last 14 years, including Christian rock group Casting Crowns.

"The hope is that we can better understand the people of North Korea and that they can better understand us," he said. "And that could lead to more normalized relations."

The deal comes amid encouraging signs that ties between the U.S. and North Korea could be warming.

Both nations announced an agreement last month that calls for Pyongyang to freeze its nuclear activities and allow U.N nuclear inspections in exchange for food aid. But Washington said the North's recently unveiled plans to launch a satellite on a rocket could jeopardize the deal.

The U.S. tour by North Korean musicians takes place four years after the New York Philharmonic performed in Pyongyang, North Korea's capital, in January 2008 ? a historic cultural exchange between musicians from two nations that remain enemy states.

Korea was split at the end of World War II into the communist North and the U.S.-backed South. The two sides fought a three-year war that ended in a truce in 1953 but has left the Korean Peninsula divided by a heavily fortified border. The U.S. still has more than 28,000 troops stationed in South Korea.

The visit comes as North Korea has sent a flurry of cultural exchanges. The South Korean conductor of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra landed in Pyongyang in February to rehearse with North Korea's Unhasu Orchestra. The Unhasu Orchestra performed a landmark concert with a French orchestra last week in Paris.

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Associated Press writer Jean H. Lee in Seoul, South Korea, contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nonprofit-north-korea-orchestra-coming-us-115514150.html

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Wave of bombs kills dozens in 12 cities across Iraq

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Iraqi security forces inspect the site of a bomb attack in Kirkuk on Tuesday. A car bomb exploded near a police headquarters, killing seven people and wounding 30, police and health sources said.

By msnbc.com staff and news services

At least 39 people were killed and 188 wounded as car and roadside bombs exploded in at least 12 cities and towns across Iraq Tuesday, police and hospital sources said, extending a spate of violence ahead of next week's Arab League summit in Baghdad.

The meeting is seen as the country's debut on the regional stage following the withdrawal of U.S. troops in December and Iraq's government is anxious to show it can reinforce security to host its neighbors. Tuesday is the ninth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion.

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The AFP news agency reported that while violence in Iraq was down from the peak in 2006 and 2007, a total of 150 Iraqis were killed last month.

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The deadliest attack on Tuesday occurred in the southern Shiite Muslim holy city of Kerbala, where twin explosions killed 13 people and wounded 48, according to Jamal Mahdi, a Kerbala health department spokesman.

"The second explosion caused the biggest destruction. I saw body parts, fingers, hands thrown on the road," 23-year-old shop owner Murtadha Ali Kadhim told Reuters.

"The security forces are stupid because they always gather at the site of an explosion and then a second explosion occurs. They become a target," he added.

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In the northern city of Kirkuk, a car bomb exploded near a police headquarters, killing seven people and wounding 30, police and health sources said, while a suicide car bomber killed three and wounded 21 in central Baghdad.

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A car bomb targeting a police patrol in Mahmudiya in the south killed three people and wounded 12, while a car bomb blast near a convoy carrying the governor of Anbar province killed one of his security men and wounded eight other people.

Blasts also occurred in Baiji, Samarra, Tuz Khurmato, Daquq and Dhuluiya, all north of Baghdad, and Hilla and Latifiya in the south. Police in the northeastern city of Baquba said they had also found and defused eight bombs.

The Arab League summit is due to be held in Baghdad on March 27-29, the first time Iraq will host the event in more than 20 years.

Reuters contributed to this report.

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Breast cancer is regarded as 1 of one of the most common cancers in ladies. At the very least one in each and every eight ladies in America develops breast cancer. Though causes of breast cancer has not been identified, breast cancer details recognized are a person?s age, diet regime, individual well being history, or genetic variables could lead to an individual becoming a breast cancer sufferer.

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