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Joe Marino, a video game player who has more than 40,000 followers on Twitch, wrote of his own health problems after another game streamer died. Credit Brett Carlsen for The New York Times

Gamer’s Death Pushes Risks of Live Streaming Into View

by Daniel E. Slotnik | Mar 17, 2017 | Technology

Early on Feb. 19, Brian C. Vigneault was nearing the end of a 24-hour marathon of live streaming himself playing the tank warfare video game World of Tanks when he left his computer to buy a pack of cigarettes. He never returned. During the break, Mr. Vigneault died...

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This 2011 file family photo provided by Terri Chung shows Kenneth Bae. (AP Photo/Courtesy Terri Chung, File)

North Korea blames US threat for aborting envoy’s trip

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 1, 2013 | World

Seoul, AP—North Korea said it rescinded its invitation for a US envoy to visit the country to seek the freedom of an American detainee because Washington perpetrated a “grave provocation” by allegedly mobilizing nuclear-capable bombers during recent...

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South Korean protesters shout slogans during a rally demanding Korean Peninsula’s peaceful unification and denouncing North Korea’s nuclear test near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, March 4, 2013. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

North Korea Threatens to Scrap Armistice Ending War

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 5, 2013 | World

Seoul/United Nations, Reuters—North Korea threatened on Tuesday to scrap an armistice that ended the 1950-53 civil war and sever a military “hotline” with the United States if South Korea and Washington pressed on with two-month-long war games. It was a...