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ALISO VIEJO – An on-duty Orange County sheriff's investigator was found shot to death in the driver's seat of an unmarked police car Wednesday afternoon. It is unclear whether the man was killed or committed suicide.
The veteran investigator's body was found about 2:30 p.m. in an unmarked Ford Crown Victoria parked in the parking lot of a shopping center in the 26700 block of Aliso Creek Road near Enterprise.
County firefighters were called in and pronounced the man dead.
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The warnings followed a report Thursday that the totalitarian regime has suspended food rations for six months in Pyongyang, home to the country's most well-off and loyal citizens, in an apparent move to save food as the hard-line regime braced for a prolonged standoff with Washington and Seoul over the North's nuclear program.
Higher global food prices have undercut Pyongyang's ability to import grain. China, the biggest exporter to North Korea, has been desperate to keep its own runaway food prices under control, imposing high tariffs on any food going out. And amid the rising political tensions, South Korea has not shipped its annual food assistance to the North this year.
"Macedonia has made difficult reforms at home. It is making major contributions to NATO missions abroad. The name issue needs to be resolved quickly, so that Macedonia can be welcomed into NATO as soon as possible."
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Li said that Hu continued to maintain his innocence, though he has acknowledged outside the courtroom that some of his comments were "excessive" in the context of existing law. All of the articles used as evidence have been censored on China's Internet.