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SEOUL, South Korea – An unidentified assailant attacked the leader of South Korea’s main opposition party on Saturday, the country’s Yonhap news agency reported. Park Geun-hye, chairwoman of the Grand National Party, suffered a wound to her face during campaigning for the upcoming local elections. It was not immediately clear …

Postmenopausal women who gain more than 60 pounds during their adult years are three times as likely to be diagnosed with the most deadly forms of breast cancer as women who gain 20 pounds or less, a study shows. Weight gain after age 18 was found to be a significant …

MOSCOW – President Vladimir Putin fired several high-ranking security and law enforcement officials on Friday, Russian news agencies reported. Officials in the Federal Security Service, Interior Ministry and the Prosecutor General’s Office were among those dismissed, the reports said. The news agencies did not offer reasons for the firings, but …