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[Newsmaker] Scaramucci out after Trump changes chief of staff

Foul-mouthed spin doctor Anthony Scaramucci was axed as White House communications director Monday, just 10 days after being named to the post and hours after Donald Trump installed a new chief of st...

Aug 1, 2017
World News
[Newsmaker] US to cut 755 US diplomatic staff in Russia, says Putin

President Vladimir Putin on Sunday said the United States would have to cut 755 diplomatic staff in Russia and warned of a prolonged gridlock in its ties after the US Congress backed new sanctions ag...

Jul 31, 2017
World News
[Newsmaker] Moon’s trade minister pick comes with host of allegations

President Moon Jae-in on Sunday named his first chief trade negotiator, readying for possible talks with the US over the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement. The new trade minister, whose position will be...

Jul 30, 2017
Politics
[Newsmaker] Transgender personnel barred from US military: Trump

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that transgender people may not serve “in any capacity” in the US military, upending a key policy from Barack Obama’s administration and drawing swift conde...

Jul 27, 2017
World News
[Newsmaker] Cheers for McCain, then impassioned speech

The maverick stood with his party Tuesday, casting a crucial vote in the Republican drive to repeal “Obamacare.” But then, like an angry prophet, Sen. John McCain condemned the tribal politics besett...

Jul 26, 2017
World News
[Newsmaker] Death of ‘coffee chain king’ rattles Korean franchise industry

A businessman who had once beaten Starbucks in the coffee franchise race in South Korea some years ago has been found dead, police said Tuesday. Kang Hoon, CEO of the local dessert cafe franchise Ma...

Jul 25, 2017
Industry
[Newsmaker] Chief prosecutor nominee vows political neutrality

Prosecutor General nominee Moon Moo-il pledged Monday to ensure political neutrality and rebuild public trust that has been marred by what critics say are lopsided investigations into high-profile ca...

Jul 24, 2017
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Trump asserts all agree he has ‘complete power’ to pardon

President Donald Trump said Saturday that he has ``complete power‘’ to issue pardons, an assertion that comes amid investigations into Russian interference in last year‘s presidential election. It wa...

Jul 23, 2017
World News
[Newsmaker] Veteran politician talks Macron, Third Way and Korean leaders

For Kim Chong-in, 78, morning starts at 5 a.m., with news updates about world politics. “Humans are political animals. You should know what’s going on around the world,” the veteran politician told ...

Jul 21, 2017
Politics
[Newsmaker] Role grows for KCCI chief as mediator to Moon’s reform drive

Park Yong-maan, chairman of the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry, has exhibited a somewhat different image as a member of a chaebol family in the past years. The former Doosan Group chairman a...

Jul 20, 2017
Industry
[Newsmaker] Celebrity defector possibly abducted by NK: report

Police have launched a probe into the case of a North Korean celebrity defector who recently appeared in a propaganda video clip for the North, amid suspicions she may have been abducted by the hermi...

Jul 19, 2017
North Korea
[Newsmaker] Uli Stielike leaves Korea

Former national football team head coach Uli Stielike has left South Korea and returned to his home country, officials in Seoul said Wednesday. The Korea Football Association said Stielike departed ...

Jul 19, 2017
Soccer
[Newsmaker] Mercedes-Benz’ fast growth in Korea meets unexpected bump

Amid German prosecutors’ investigation into defeat devices installed in Mercedes-Benz diesel cars, the Environment Ministry here said Tuesday that some 110,000 units powered by the engines in questio...

Jul 18, 2017
Automode
[Newsmaker] Park Sung-hyun wins US Women’s Open

South Korea‘s Park Sung-hyun won her first major golf title Sunday, firing her second consecutive five-under par 67 to capture the US Women’s Open as US President Donald Trump watched. Park, the ...

Jul 17, 2017
Golf
[Newsmaker] Trump, Macron bromance in bloom

A muscular handshake that turned their knuckles white seems to be giving way to a budding friendship between Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron. The unexpected bromance between the leaders of Ameri...

Jul 16, 2017
World News

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