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Rival South Korea parties reach agreement on ferry disaster bill


    SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean government and opposition leaders reached agreement on Tuesday on legislation to investigate in more detail the sinking of the Sewol ferry in April that killed over 300 passengers, most of them children.

    The bill remains subject to approval by commitees and the full parliament, Yonhap News Agency reported.

    The two parties had been at loggerheads over specifics of the bill, and the main opposition party had threatened to boycott the passage of other time-sensitive legislation until the dispute was resolved.

    (Reporting by James Pearson and Hyunjoo Jin; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore)