In Brief * Woman in the running

SEOUL – South Korea’s leading party voted to pick between the country’s most powerful woman politician and a former business magnate in a primary, where the winner is certain to emerge as front-runner for the presidency.

Gorilla remains discovered GOMA – Conservationists in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo discovered remains of a rare mountain gorilla and believe her 4-month-old offspring is now also dead, weeks after four more of the endangered primates were shot dead in mysterious attack New millennium dawns ADDIS ABABA – More than seven years after most of the world marked the 21st century, Ethiopia is putting finishing touches to a party for its own millennium, which falls on September 12, according to the Julian calendar, the ancient system of measuring time abandoned by the West in 16th century. Nampa-ReutersNampa-Reuters

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