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South Koreans have begun voting for their next president with the two leading candidates locked in a tight race that will determine the path of future relations with the United States as well as with reclusive North Korea.

North Korea will be just months away from producing plutonium if it is allowed to remove monitoring equipment from a deactivated nuclear reactor, the head of a nuclear watchdog group warns.

Police found a machine gun and grenades Tuesday on the side of a road where the Iranian president was scheduled to travel, authorities said.

Christmas is a festive affair even in the world's largest Muslim nation. Indonesia's malls are filled with winter wonderland carols in a land that has never seen snow.