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Exports to US reach all-time high, widen gap with China
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Trump rekindles criticism: US forces defending 'wealthy' S. Korea 'free of charge'
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[Music in drama] Rekindle a love that slipped through your fingers
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S. Korea discussed possible participation in AUKUS Pillar 2 with Australia: defense minister
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[New faces of Assembly] Architect behind ‘audacious initiative’ believes in denuclearized North Korea
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Opposition-led Assembly unilaterally passes bill to probe Marine's death
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Seoul Metro to seek legal action against malicious complaints
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Illit, mired in controversy, remains on Billboard charts for 5th week
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On May Day, labor unions blast Yoon's foreign nanny proposal
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[KH Explains] Will alternative trading platform shake up Korean stock market?
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Pakistan president crushes rumors he may step down
ISLAMABAD (AP) ― President Asif Ali Zardari was having tests related to a heart condition in a Dubai hospital Wednesday but is expected to return to Pakistan within days, officials said, denying rumors that the embattled and unpopular leader may be stepping down.Some reports said Zardari, who in September underwent medical tests for a cardiac condition in Britain, may have suffered a mild heart attack. Those were also denied by officials, some of whom suggested the rumors were being spread by po
World NewsDec. 8, 2011
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Yemen forms national unity government
SANAA (AP) ― Yemen’s vice president announced the formation of a national unity government Wednesday as part of a power transfer deal to ease embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh out of power and end months of political turmoil, the state news agency said.SABA said Vice President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi issued a decree approving the formation of the new 35-member cabinet headed by the veteran independent politician Mohammed Basindwa. Government posts are equally divided between Saleh’s Congres
World NewsDec. 8, 2011
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Egyptian P.M. names new cabinet; Islamists sweep runoff votes
CAIRO (AFP) ― Egypt’s caretaker premier named a new cabinet on Wednesday with increased powers to tackle worsening crime and a sliding economy as Islamist parties made fresh gains in the country’s parliamentary election.Interim premier Kamal el-Ganzouri announced his administration following nearly two weeks of delays, reportedly caused by problems in finding a suitable candidate to fill the highly sensitive interior ministry post.He finally opted for Mohammed Ibrahim Yusuf, who headed police in
World NewsDec. 8, 2011
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Ex-U.S. governor gets 14 years in prison for corruption
CHICAGO (AP) ― The Rod Blagojevich who once challenged a prosecutor to face him like a man, the glad-handing politician who took to celebrity TV shows to profess his innocence, was nowhere to be found Wednesday as he was sentenced to 14 years in prison for corruption.Frowning and pulling nervously at his tie, the disgraced former governor seemed like another person as he stepped up to the address the sentencing judge. His bluster, once as conspicuous as his famously lavish head of dark hair, wip
World NewsDec. 8, 2011
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Citizens simmer as Russia limits protests
Putin officially registers to run for president; ex-Soviet leader Gorbachev calls for new voteMOSCOW (AP) ― Popular anger against Vladimir Putin’s ruling party and alleged election fraud have boiled over into a third straight night of protests, and police in Russia’s two largest cities arrested scores of demonstrators.The demonstrations in Moscow and St. Petersburg on Wednesday appeared to attract fewer protesters than in previous days, roughly 300 in each city, but Russians’ willingness to risk
World NewsDec. 8, 2011
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Maintenance man charged with murdering N. Ga. girl
CANTON, Ga. (AP) — A 20-year-old maintenance worker was arrested in the beating death of a 7-year-old north Georgia girl who was abducted and killed at an apartment complex and her body left in a trash bin, authorities said Wednesday.Ryan Brunn, who lived and worked at the apartment complex, w
World NewsDec. 8, 2011
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Anti-vote fraud protests in Russia for 3rd night
Alexei Navalny, one of Russia`s best-known bloggers, chants anti-government slogans during an opposition rally in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Dec. 5, 2011.(AP)MOSCOW (AP) _ Popular anger against Vladimir Putin's ruling party and alleged election fraud have boiled over into a third straight night of prot
World NewsDec. 8, 2011
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Top Italian mob boss nabbed in hometown bunker
ROME (AP) -- Police on Wednesday captured one of Italy's most-wanted fugitive mobsters, arresting the last major boss of one of Italy's bloodiest mafia clans.Michele Zagaria, on the run since 1995, was found in an underground bunker in Casapesenna, in his hometown province of Caserta in southern Ita
World NewsDec. 8, 2011
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China sees challenges to exports in 2012
China sees an increase in domestic costs and a slowdown in overseas demand putting “severe” pressure on its exports next year, a sign that policy makers may have little appetite to allow faster gains in the yuan. Premier Wen Jiabao’s embrace of higher wages, along with a jump in land and raw-materials prices and a stronger yuan are restraining shipments, the Commerce Ministry said Wednesday. While the nation can achieve export gains as long as Europe’s crisis doesn’t deepen, it will need to focu
World BusinessDec. 7, 2011
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EU launches Apple e-book antitrust probe
E-book publishers owned by Lagardere, Pearson Plc, News Corp.and two other firms under investigationBRUSSELS (AP) ― The European Union’s antitrust watchdog is probing whether Apple helped five major publishing houses illegally raise prices for e-books when it launched its iPad tablet and iBookstore in 2010.The probe, announced Tuesday by the European Commission, offers a glimpse into the fierce fight for share of the growing e-book market as Apple tries to take on Amazon and its Kindle e-book r
World BusinessDec. 7, 2011
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Greece passes austerity budget after clashes
ATHENS (AP) ― Greece’s lawmakers overwhelmingly approved next year’s austerity budget early Wednesday, extending tough spending cuts that have already left Greeks struggling as the country tries to slash its vast debts and tame a severe recession.With three parties, including the majority socialists and their rival conservatives, participating in Greece’s new coalition government, the budget was passed with a 258-41 majority in the 300-seat Parliament.“This is a difficult budget ... with ambitio
World BusinessDec. 7, 2011
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Seoul takes Asia’s culinary spotlight
Ask international gourmands to name the food capitals of Asia, and chances are they’ll rattle off no-brainers like Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai, cities with vibrant expatriate populations and a slew of upscale restaurants operated by acclaimed chefs.This year, Seoul joins these ranks, at least according to one regional restaurant guide.For the first time, one of Korea’s restaurants, Pierre Gagnaire a Seoul, has been listed among Asia’s Top 20 in The Miele Guide 2011-2012, a compilation of t
World NewsDec. 7, 2011
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Carnage in Kabul sparks fear of sectarian strife
KABUL (AP) ― In Afghanistan’s first major sectarian assault since the fall of the Taliban regime a decade ago, a suicide bomber slaughtered 56 Shiite worshippers and wounded more than 160 others Tuesday outside a Shiite shrine in the capital.The body of a woman, clutching a dead child in each arm, was sprawled along a dirt road littered with shoes, bloodstained clothing, hats and body parts after the blast, which took place as a bombing killed four Shiites in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif.
World NewsDec. 7, 2011
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China’s president urges navy to get ready for combat
BEIJING (AFP) ― Chinese President Hu Jintao on Tuesday urged the navy to prepare for military combat, amid growing regional tensions over maritime disputes and a U.S. campaign to assert itself as a Pacific power.The navy should “accelerate its transformation and modernization in a sturdy way, and make extended preparations for military combat in order to make greater contributions to safeguard national security,” he said.Addressing the powerful Central Military Commission, Hu said: “Our work mus
World NewsDec. 7, 2011
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Clinton meets Syrian opposition
GENEVA (AP) ― The Obama administration moved to expand contacts with opponents of Syria’s President Bashar Assad on Tuesday as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton held a rare meeting with Syrian opposition figures and the top U.S. envoy to Syria returned to Damascus after a six-week absence.Amid reports of a new surge in violence that the U.N. says has killed more than 4,000 people since an uprising against Assad erupted in March, Clinton told Syrian pro-reform activists in Geneva that she
World NewsDec. 7, 2011
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Comprehensive climate deal unlikely: U.N. chief
DURBAN (AP) ― An all-encompassing climate deal “may be beyond our reach for now,” the U.N. chief said as China and India delivered a setback to European plans to negotiate a new treaty that would bind all parties to their pledges on greenhouse gas emissions.The European “road map” toward a new accord that would take effect after 2020 is a centerpiece of negotiations among 194 countries at a U.N. climate conference in the South African coastal city of Durban. It has been presented as a condition
World NewsDec. 7, 2011
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Insider’s account of vote rigging for Russia’s Putin
MOSCOW (AP) ― The election official had a problem. Workers at his polling station had been stuffing ballot boxes with votes for Vladimir Putin’s party all day, he says, but when the votes were counted United Russia still didn’t have enough.So he huddled with the election commission he chaired at the Moscow precinct. The decision: Putin’s party would get the desired 65 percent. One member objected, but relented when the others tossed his Communist Party a few dozen votes.The commission chairman s
World NewsDec. 7, 2011
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Pearl Harbor survivors return to ships in death
HONOLULU (AP) ― Lee Soucy decided five years ago that when he died he wanted to join his shipmates killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor.Soucy lived to be 90, passing away just last year. On Tuesday, seven decades after dozens of fellow sailors were killed when the USS Utah sank on Dec. 7, 1941, a Navy diver will take a small urn containing his ashes and place it in a porthole of the ship.The ceremony is one of five memorials being held this week for servicemen who lived through the assault and w
World NewsDec. 7, 2011
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For pet-owners, holiday plans revolve around pets
LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Dexter's social calendar this holiday season is chock-full of travel plans, party invites, new clothes, special meals and trips to see Santa Claus.Highlights for the 3-year-old cocker spaniel and his owner Carol Bryant, of Forty Fort, Pennsylvania, include a couple of car trips to
World NewsDec. 7, 2011
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An insider's account of vote rigging for Putin
MOSCOW (AP) _ The election official had a problem. Workers at his polling station had been stuffing ballot boxes with votes for Vladimir Putin's party all day, he says, but when the votes were counted United Russia still didn't have enough.So he huddled with the election commission he chaired at the
World NewsDec. 7, 2011