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Kilian the sniffer dog searches for survivors after the Morocco quake

Kilian the sniffer dog searches for survivors after the Morocco quake

The golden retriever, part of a Swedish rescue team, helped find 18 people alive under the rubble in Turkey earlier this year. He searched this week for the last missing person in a Moroccan village.
by Lauren Frayer

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Fewer North Korean defectors reach South Korea, and questions grow about unification

Fewer North Korean defectors reach South Korea, and questions grow about unification

Just 67 North Korean defectors arrived last year. Inter-Korean dialogue and exchange have ground to a halt. Seoul's Unification Ministry has a new, hawkish head who wants to change the agency's role.
by Se Eun Gong

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Preparing homes for wildfires is big business that's only getting started

Preparing homes for wildfires is big business that's only getting started

Climate change, technological leaps, panicked insurers, the shifting sense of responsibility: All are powering the still-nascent, but fast-growing industry of preparing homes for wildfires.
by Alina Selyukh

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Hmong immigrants put down roots on Dakota County farmland

Hmong immigrants put down roots on Dakota County farmland

The Hmong American Farmers Association closed on farmland just south of the Twin Cities in Dakota County last year. The more than 150 acres are home base for the organization and 20 families of Hmong farmers.
by Jon Collins

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Gamers settle in Twin Cities for Catan national championship this weekend

Gamers settle in Twin Cities for Catan national championship this weekend

About 100 people will gather in the Twin Cities this weekend to trade wood, bricks, wheat, ore and sheep. Not for a trade conference, but the resource cards from the popular board game Catan. The U.S. National Championship will be played this weekend at the Mall of America. 
by Matt Mikus

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'Can’t trust them’: U students displaced by building delays testify to lawmakers

'Can’t trust them’: U students displaced by building delays testify to lawmakers

More than 100 University of Minnesota students have signed leases and many have paid first months rent to move into the apartment by Aug. 27, but the building has delayed opening for a month.
by Nicole Ki

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