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Indonesians in South Korea can send money home faster with new service
Korea Gas Corp. to invest W10tr in natural gas, hydrogen
Conductor Chung Myung-whun, KBS Symphony Orchestra reunite after 20 years
First consultative body of government, rival parties to be launched in Nove...
KT ready for 5G showcase in Indonesia
S. Korea appoints Paulo Bento nat'l football team head coach
Court reviews arrest warrant for governor in opinion rigging scandal
Samsung Heavy wins $370 million deal for 2 LNG carriers
Moon's approval rating slightly rebounds
North Korea's No. 2 man visiting Cuba: report

Aug 14, 2018 International

Trump lashes out at Omarosa, calls her ‘that dog’

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump escalated his messy clash with former aide Omarosa Manigault Newman on Tuesday, referring to the longtime colleague, who had been the top African-American in his White House, as “that dog!”　　Trump tweeted a barrage of insults Tuesday morning as Manigault Newman continued promoting her White House tell-all and releasing secret audio recordings. Her book paints a damning picture of Trump, including her claim that he used racial slurs on the set of his rea

Bridge collapses in Italy during heavy storm, crushing cars

MILAN (AP) -- A bridge over an industrial area in the Italian city of Genova partially collapsed during a sudden and violent storm on Tuesday, leaving vehicles crushed in the rubble below.　Italian media reported that there were deaths, but Maria Luisa Catalano, a police official in Genoa, said that authorities were still involved in rescue efforts and did not yet know the number of victims or injured.　The disaster occurred on a highway that connects Italy to France and other vacation resorts on

Aug 14, 2018
International
Suspected terror attack injures pedestrians outside UK parliament

LONDON, (AFP) -- A car crashed into barriers outside Britain‘s Houses of Parliament in a suspected terror attack on Tuesday, injuring a “number of pedestrians” yards from where five people were killed last year.　Police said they had arrested the driver, in his late 20s, and were holding him on suspicion of terrorist offences.　“At this stage, we are treating this as a terrorist incident,” said Scotland Yard, adding that none of the injuries are believed to be “life-threatening”. Police officers

Aug 14, 2018
International
Maryland honors Korean War veterans as N. Korea returns remains

ANNAPOLIS -- The US state of Maryland held an official ceremony Thursday to honor veterans of the Korean War amid renewed hope for the recovery of fallen troops' remains.Gov. Larry Hogan hosted some 60 veterans from Maryland at his official residence in Annapolis, the first time a US state has held a "welcome home" ceremony for Korean War veterans since the three-year conflict ended in July 1953.Hogan credited his Korean-born wife, Yumi, for making it happen. (Yonhap)"She tells every Korean War

Aug 10, 2018
International
2 South Koreans found dead near Hawaii beach: foreign ministry

South Korea's foreign ministry said Sunday that it has been providing consular assistance needed to handle the deaths of two South Koreans, whose bodies were found near a Hawaiian beach last week.At around 4:50 p.m. on Thursday (Hawaii time), the two were spotted floating near Keawakapu Beach on Maui. They were immediately sent to a nearby hospital but pronounced dead, a ministry official said. Keawakapu Beach on Maui (YouTube)"The consulate general in Honolulu has learned of the case after it w

Aug 5, 2018
International
China urges S. Korea to resolve THAAD issue in ministerial talks

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi asked South Korea on Friday to resolve the issue of an advanced US missile defense system deployed on the peninsula.Wang made the request in bilateral talks with his South Korean counterpart, Kang Kyung-wha, in Singapore on the margins of annual ASEAN-hosted sessions, according to a South Korean government official.He cited the need for a "compete resolution" to the matter, a repeat of Beijing's demand, which comes amid a peace mood in Korea.The US military sent

Aug 3, 2018
International
China calls draft pact on sea feud a ‘breakthrough’ in talks

China’s top diplomat said Thursday that an initial draft of a proposed pact with Southeast Asia aimed at preventing fighting in the disputed South China Sea was a “breakthrough” in talks that can progress further without outside interference.China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, which includes four rival claimants involved in the territorial rifts, have been holding sporadic talks for years to craft a “code of conduct,” a set of regional norms and rules aimed at preventing a shoo

Aug 2, 2018
International
Seoul deploys warship to Libya after S. Korean, Filipinos kidnapped

Seoul said Thursday it had deployed a warship to Libya in an apparent show of force to secure the release of a South Korean national kidnapped along with three Filipinos in the North African country.The 4,000-tonne vessel, Munmu the Great, which takes part in anti-piracy operations in the Gulf of Aden, was now on its way to Libya, officials said.In addition to “carrying out its duty of protecting commercial vessels, (the warship) is also preparing for all possibilities including the need for mil

Aug 2, 2018
International
Two US senators to co-chair study group on Korea

WASHINGTON -- Two bipartisan United States senators have been chosen to co-chair a congressional study group on Korea, becoming the first members of the Senate to join the body.Sens. Brian Schatz and Dan Sullivan will lead the Congressional Study Group on Korea launched in February by the Association of Former Members of Congress, a bipartisan nonprofit. Dan Sullivan (AP)"The Republic of Korea is not only a close friend and ally of the United States, but the alliance itself serves as a linchpin

Aug 2, 2018
International
State human rights watchdog to investigate NK restaurant workers’ 2016 defection

South Korea’s human rights watchdog said Sunday it plans to conduct a probe into a group defection by North Korean restaurant workers in 2016 amid allegations that some of them were duped into coming to the South.The National Human Rights Commission said it has decided to investigate the case to determine if they came to the South voluntarily or if a state agency was illegally involved in the defection.Along with a male manager, 12 North Korean women who worked at a restaurant, in the eastern Ch

Jul 29, 2018
International
China donates 7m euros to Cameroon's security forces

YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AFP) -- China has donated 6.86 million euros ($7.95 million) to Cameroon‘s army to boost its “peacekeeping and security operations”, state radio reported Thursday.　The donation was made on Wednesday by China’s ambassador to the central African country, Wang Ying Wu, in a meeting with Defence Minister Joseph Beti Assomo, CRTV reported.　The ambassador told state radio that the grant was intended to help Cameroon‘s army “reinforce its capacities in peacekeeping and security opera

Jul 19, 2018
International
Indian forces kill 8 Maoist insurgents in forest gunbattle

PATNA, India (AP) -- Security forces killed eight Maoist insurgents, including four women, in an exchange of gunfire early Thursday in their stronghold in central India, a police officer said.　　The two-hour gunbattle took place in a forest in Bijapur district in Chhattisgarh state after security forces encircled the rebel hideout, police officer D.M. Awasthy said.　　Security forces found the bodies of eight rebels and some rifles and bullet magazines, Awasthy said. 　 Indian Prime Minister Nare

Jul 19, 2018
International
Zuckerberg: Holocaust deniers won‘t be banned from Facebook

NEW YORK (AP) -- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says while he finds Holocaust denial “deeply offensive,” he doesn‘t believe that such content should be banned from Facebook.　Speaking with Recode’s Kara Swisher, Zuckerberg, who is Jewish, said in an interview published Wednesday that he thinks there are things “that different people get wrong.” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (Yonhap)　He added that he doesn‘t think they are “intentionally” getting it wrong. At this point, Swisher cut in and said that

Jul 19, 2018
International
Israel adopts controversial Jewish nation-state law

JERUSALEM (AFP) -- Israel‘s parliament on Thursday adopted a law defining the country as the nation state of the Jewish people, provoking fears it could lead to blatant discrimination against Arab citizens.　Arab lawmakers and Palestinians called the law “racist” and said it legalised “apartheid” following a tumultuous debate in parliament.　Others said it neglects to specify equality and Israel’s democratic character, implying that the country‘s Jewish nature comes first.In this Sunday, May 13, 2

Jul 19, 2018
International
Another former ‘comfort woman’ dies

Another elderly Korean victim of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery has died, the Ministry of Gender Equality announced Sunday.　The death of Kim Bok-deuk, 99, puts the number of known surviving victims at 27. This year alone, four other victims have died, including Choi Duk-nye, who passed away in late April.　Kim was born in 1918 in Tongyeong, South Gyeongsang Province, and was forcibly taken by the Japanese military in 1939 to work as a sex slave for its soldiers at a number of different locations,

Jul 2, 2018
International

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