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LONDON (AP) -- British author Colin Wilson, who gained fame with his first book, "The Outsider," has died. He was 82.Colin Stanley, Wilson's publisher and bibliographer, said the writer and philosopher never fully recovered from a stroke in 2011.Stanley said Friday that Wilson was admitted...
Updated : 2013.12.13 21:36
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GENEVA (AFP) -- Twenty-seven Muslims were killed Thursday in an attack by militias in a village in the west of the Central African Republic, the UN's human rights agency said Friday."According to information we have received, 27 Muslims were killed by self-defence militias, known as anti...
Updated : 2013.12.13 21:04
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BEIJING -- China is exercising "effective supervision" of its recently expanded air defense zone over the East China Sea in response to a South Korea-Japan joint naval drill in international waters covered by Chinese airspace, Beijing said Friday. South Korea and Japan conducted the regu...
Updated : 2013.12.13 20:43
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) ― In a Rio suburb, wealthy and beautiful heiresses, orphans and assassins lunch together in a mini-city where Globo television creates the soap operas that captivate more than 50...
Updated : 2013.12.11 20:18
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Top U.S. officials expressed concern Tuesday at reports that Chinese telecoms giant Huawei is set to build a new broadband network in South Korea that Washington sees as a possible spying risk.Huawei, barred from projects in the United States and Australia over national security concerns, ...
Updated : 2013.12.04 09:41
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World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim on Tuesday urged the Korean private sector to invest in under-developed countries, namely those in Africa where Kim saw new investment opportunities. “The (Kor...
Updated : 2013.12.03 14:28
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South Korea plans to hold strategic talks with the United States, China and Japan within the next month to cope with rising security challenges facing Northeast Asia, government sources said Sunday.The plan comes as China unilaterally drew a new air defense identification zone (ADIZ) in th...
Updated : 2013.12.01 15:23
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A researcher here said Sunday that she found multiple documents published by China in the 1900s that describe South Korea's ownership of the easternmost islets of Dokdo, which are also claimed by Japa...
Updated : 2013.12.01 11:31
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China on Thursday rejected South Korea’s demand to adjust its recent demarcation of an air defense zone in the East China Sea, which has raised tension by covering an area over Korea’s southwestern submerged rock of Ieodo.Vice Defense Minister Baek Seung-joo made the demand during his ta...
Updated : 2013.11.28 15:50
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The annual tally of tourists to South Korea's southern resort island of Jeju is expected to top 10 million this week.As of Tuesday, the number of visitors to Jeju had reached 9.97 million, up 11.4 percent from 8.95 million during the same period last year, the Jeju provincial government sa...
Updated : 2013.11.27 13:56
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South Korea on Tuesday expressed its displeasure with the European Union's preliminary designation of the country as an illegal fishing nation, noting it has already revised law to intensify fishing regulation set to go into effect early next year, according to a ministry official."South K...
Updated : 2013.11.26 22:06
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Japan's air defense zone extends into South Korea's airspace over its territorial waters near the southernmost island of Marado, the defense ministry spokesman said Tuesday.The violation happened because Japan set its air defense identification zone in 1969 when territorial waters of a cou...
Updated : 2013.11.26 15:43
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STRASBOURG, France (AFP) - Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai was handed the EU's prestigious Sakharov human rights prize Wednesday in recognition of her crusade for the right of all children, girls and boys, to an education.To thunderous applause announcing the European Parliament prize,...
Updated : 2013.11.20 21:28
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MOSCOW (AFP) - Russia suspended on Wednesday the operations of a popular Moscow bank whose board includes a cousin of President Vladimir Putin on suspicion of laundering more than half a billion dollars.Investigators accused managers at Master Bank -- Russia's 75th-biggest by total assets ...
Updated : 2013.11.20 21:15
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AFP) - An Afghan district police chief was killed in an ambush by militants in the volatile southern province of Helmand on Wednesday, officials said.Tooryalai Khan, police chief of Helmand's Marjah district, was leading an operation against Taliban insurgents in the...
Updated : 2013.11.20 20:44
