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[Newsmaker] Friends call John McCain hero, maverick at Arizona funeral

PHOENIX -- A former vice president, an NFL star and other friends remembered Sen. John McCain as a “true American hero” — and a terrible driver with a wicked sense of humor and love of a good battle ...

Aug 31, 2018
World News
[Newsmaker] Day care kept mum about leaving behind toddler in vehicle

Police suspect that a day care center tried to cover up a recent incident in which a girl, 3, was left alone in a vehicle for 2 1/2 hours. Parents of the toddler reported the incident to police Mond...

Aug 30, 2018
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Hong Kong professor charged with murder after wife's body found in suitcase

HONG KONG -- A University of Hong Kong professor was on Wednesday charged with murder after police found his wife's decomposing body stuffed in a suitcase in his office, the latest grisly murder to t...

Aug 30, 2018
World News
[Newsmaker] Laid-off SsangYong workers blame ex-president for colleagues' deaths

After a special police investigation team on Tuesday concluded that the 2009 crackdown against SsangYong Motors’ laid-off workers was a form of state violence and that it was orchestrated under the l...

Aug 29, 2018
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Incheon rape suspects to be tried as juveniles

Two boys were booked without physical detention on rape charges in Incheon on Wednesday, about seven weeks after the victim was found dead in an apparent suicide, Yeonsu police said. The victim’s au...

Aug 29, 2018
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Government to boost inter-Korean cooperation fund for 2019

Next year’s allocation to the inter-Korean cooperation fund spiked 14.3 percent on-year to 1.1 trillion won ($994 million) in the government budget announced Tuesday, with the sharp increase reflecti...

Aug 28, 2018
North Korea
[Newsmaker] Two dead in traffic accident involving actress Park Hae-mee’s husband

Actress Park Hae-mee’s husband was on the way for another drink when he was involved in a drunk-driving accident Monday night. Two other passengers, 19 and 31, were killed, and three, including the ...

Aug 28, 2018
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Man says he killed wife, three children after living with ‘overwhelming debt’

A 42-year-old man suspected of killing four members of his family, including his three children, has been arrested at a large hospital in Daejeon, police said Monday. According to Okcheon Police Sta...

Aug 27, 2018
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] China’s transport ministry censures Didi after murder

BEIJING (AFP) -- China’s transport ministry on Sunday slammed Didi Chuxing’s safety lapses as the ride-hailing giant said it would suspend its Hitch service after the rape and murder of a passenger, ...

Aug 27, 2018
World Business
[Newsmaker] ‘Kim-Jang’ feud winds down, uncertainties remain

The apparent discord between the country’s top two economic policymakers -- Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Kim Dong-yeon and presidential chief of staff for Policy Jang Ha-sung -- seemed ...

Aug 26, 2018
Economy
[Newsmaker] Pope in Ireland decries abuse cover-up, meets with victims

DUBLIN (AP) -- Pope Francis faced a lukewarm reception and scattered protests Saturday on his trip to Ireland, with even his vow to rid the church of the “scourge” of sexual abuse and his outrage at ...

Aug 26, 2018
World News
[Newsmaker] Partisan strife continues over special probe of online opinion rigging

A partisan squabble over an opinion-rigging scandal involving an incumbent governor resumed Thursday as the team of investigators led by special counsel Huh Ik-bum decided not to request an extension...

Aug 23, 2018
Politics
[Newsmaker] 89 killed or wounded in firearms accidents over 7 years

Firearms accidents and misuse have caused a total of 89 casualties in the seven years to June this year, according to police data released by a ruling party lawmaker. The figure does not include the...

Aug 23, 2018
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Mutilation murder suspect says killed victim over illegal hostess service

The suspect in the murder of a man whose dismembered body was found at Seoul Grand Park in Gwacheon, Gyeonggi Province, early this week said he killed the victim during a fight over an illegal hostes...

Aug 22, 2018
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Some 220 children held in immigrant detention centers in South Korea

The National Human Rights Commission Korea said Tuesday that holding young children in prison-like immigration detention centers must be prohibited, revealing that 225 foreign-born children including...

Aug 21, 2018
Social affairs

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