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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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Opposition-led Assembly unilaterally passes bill to probe Marine's death
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Inflation eases in April, continues bumpy ride
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Seoul Metro to seek legal action against malicious complaints
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Golden chance to liquidate babies’ gold rings?
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[New faces of Assembly] Architect behind ‘audacious initiative’ believes in denuclearized North Korea
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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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In Iowa, Gingrich streaks past Romney
WASHINGTON (AP) ― With businessman Herman Cain gone from the Republican presidential race, Newt Gingrich luxuriated in good polling news over the weekend ― two key surveys showing him well ahead of main challenger Mitt Romney in the fast-approaching Iowa caucuses.Voters in the Midwestern state will vote in local caucus meetings on Jan. 3, the first-in-the-nation contests that choose delegates to the Republican national convention next September in Tampa, Florida, that will formally name Presiden
World NewsDec. 5, 2011
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Supermarket boss to run euro member Slovenia
LJUBLJANA (AFP) ― Fresh from a surprise election victory, Zoran Jankovic aimed Monday to get down to business and turn Slovenia around the same way he once did as boss of the euro member’s largest supermarket chain.But whether the same skills that made Jankovic a millionaire and got him elected twice as Ljubljana’s mayor will enable him to soothe investor concerns about a slowing economy and a growing debt pile is uncertain, analysts said.“Today Jankovic can drink champagne,” Vlado Miheljak, pol
World NewsDec. 5, 2011
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Hundreds gather for Singapore 'SlutWalk' protest
SINGAPORE (AP) _ Hundreds of people gathered at a park in Singapore on Sunday to protest sexual violence against women as part of the global ``SlutWalk'' movement, in a rare public demonstration in the tightly controlled city state.The event featured live music, speeches and a women's Muay Thai mart
Dec. 5, 2011
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Saudi report claims women at wheel will have sex
This file image made from video released by Change.org, shows a Saudi Arabian woman driving a car in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (AP)RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — A report given to a high-level advisory group in Saudi Arabia claims that allowing women in the kingdom to drive could encourage premarital
World NewsDec. 5, 2011
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84-year-old says she was strip searched at JFK
NEW YORK (AP) — An 84-year-old New York grandmother said Saturday she was injured and humiliated when she was strip searched at an airport after she asked to be patted down instead of going through a body scanner.Lenore Zimmerman said she was taken to a private room and made to take off her pa
World NewsDec. 5, 2011
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Putin's party losing support in parliamentary vote
MOSCOW (AP) _ Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's party struggled to hang onto its majority in Russia's parliamentary election, results showed Monday, suggesting Russians were wearying of the man who has dominated Russian politics for more than a decade.Rival parties and election monitors said even a re
World NewsDec. 5, 2011
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Herman Cain ends 2012 presidential bid
ATLANTA (AP) ― A defiant Herman Cain suspended his faltering bid for the Republican presidential nomination Saturday amid a drumbeat of sexual misconduct allegations against him, throwing his staunchly conservative supporters up for grabs with just one month to go before the lead-off caucuses in Iowa.The Georgia businessman condemned the accusations as “false and unproven’’ but said they had been hurtful to his family, particularly his wife, Gloria, and were drowning out his ability to deliver h
World NewsDec. 4, 2011
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Army defectors complicate Syria uprising
BEIRUT (AP) ― Nearly nine months into the Syrian uprising, many protesters are pinning their hopes on an increasingly bold group of army defectors to give their revolution a fighting chance against President Bashar Assad’s fiercely loyal forces.But as the Free Syrian Army gains power, the defectors could make it harder for the West to give strong diplomatic support to a movement that so far has been largely peaceful. The FSA also could give the regime an excuse to crack down even more strongly,
World NewsDec. 4, 2011
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SAP to pay $3.4b for SuccessFactors
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ― SAP said Saturday it is paying $3.4 billion to acquire SuccessFactors, a software company specializing in human resources tasks. It is the latest move in the escalating rivalry between SAP and Oracle Corp., and underscores the increased interest in technology companies that deliver software over the Internet, or in the so-called “cloud.”The deal calls for subsidiary SAP America Inc. to pay $40 per share in cash for SuccessFactors. That is a 52 percent premium over SuccessFac
World BusinessDec. 4, 2011
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Honda recalls globally for air bag problems
TOKYO (AP) ― Honda Motor Co. is recalling 304,000 vehicles globally for air bags that may inflate with too much pressure in a crash, send metal and plastic pieces flying and cause injuries or deaths.Honda said there have been 20 accidents so far related to the problem, including two deaths in the U.S. in 2009.The Japanese automaker announced the recall Friday, which affects the Accord, Civic, Odyssey, Pilot, CR-V and other models manufactured in 2001 and 2002.The recall spans 273,000 vehicles in
World BusinessDec. 4, 2011
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Facebook to hire thousands, open N.Y. office
NEW YORK (AP) ― Facebook will open an engineering center in New York City early next year, its first such office outside the West Coast, the social network giant announced Friday.Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg joined elected officials for the announcement at Facebook’s existing New York office on Madison Avenue. Sandberg would not say how many people Facebook would hire in New York, only that the company plans to add “thousands” worldwide in coming years.Sandberg said the company will s
World BusinessDec. 4, 2011
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ECB set to cut rates again as crisis deepens
FRANKFURT (AFP) ― The European Central Bank is expected to cut its key interest rates for the second time in two months next week as EU leaders battle to find a solution to the long-running debt crisis.The ECB’s decision-making governing council is holding its last monthly interest-rate meeting this year on Thursday, the same day as European Union leaders gather in Brussels to find ways out of a crisis that is threatening the very existence of the single currency.Many governments and analysts se
World BusinessDec. 4, 2011
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Sandusky discusses Paterno, case
NEW YORK (AP) ― Former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky said he never spoke with the college’s head football coach Joe Paterno about any suspected misconduct with minors, the New York Times reported Saturday.Sandusky has been charged with 40 counts of molesting eight boys over 15 years and is free on bail while awaiting a preliminary hearing Dec. 13. A grand jury investigating Sandusky said in a report that some of the allegations occurred in the team showers, including a 2002 all
World NewsDec. 4, 2011
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Arab League agree details on Syrian sanctions
BEIRUT (AP) ― Violence sweeping across Syria killed 25 people on Saturday, most of them in a battle between troops and a growing force of army defectors who have joined the movement to oust the autocratic president, activists said. The Arab League, meanwhile, agreed on the details of economic and diplomatic sanctions against the regime.The revolt against Bashar Assad’s rule began with peaceful protests in mid-March, triggering a brutal crackdown. The unrest has steadily become bloodier as defect
World NewsDec. 4, 2011
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Russians vote as Putin plans his Kremlin comeback
MOSCOW (AFP) ― Russians went to the polls Sunday in key parliamentary elections expected to hand victory to Vladimir Putin’s party amid claims of campaign fraud and unprecedented intimidation of observers.The elections to the lower house of parliament, the 450-deputy State Duma, are seen as a key test of Putin’s ability to hold on to power as he prepares to reclaim his old Kremlin job in a March presidential vote amid growing disillusionment over his 11-year rule.The world’s largest country is s
World NewsDec. 4, 2011
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Head to Head: Romney vs Gingrich
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (AP) ― The once-bursting 2012 Republican presidential field is narrowing to a two-man race, and GOP voters have one month before casting the first votes to winnow it to one. Barring a dramatic new turn, their chief options will be the steady but often bland demeanor of Mitt Romney and the idea-a-minute bombast of Newt Gingrich.Herman Cain’s suspension of his campaign Saturday, and Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s continued struggles to regain traction, have focused the party’s a
World NewsDec. 4, 2011
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Saudi report: Women driving spurs premarital sex
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- A report given to a high-level advisory group in Saudi Arabia claims that allowing women in the kingdom to drive could encourage premarital sex, a rights activist said Saturday.The ultraconservative stance suggests increasing pressure on King Abdullah to retain the kingd
World NewsDec. 4, 2011
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US investigates modern art forgery: report
NEW YORK (AFP) - US federal authorities are investigating whether paintings and drawings sold by elite New York art dealers as the work of Modernist masters are in fact fakes, The New York Times reported Saturday.The pieces purported to be by artists like Robert Motherwell and Jackson Pollock, sold
PodcastDec. 4, 2011
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Pakistani model's nude photo causes fury
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- A Pakistani actress who posed in the nude for an Indian magazine with the initials of Pakistan's feared and powerful intelligence agency on her arm has triggered fury across this conservative nation.Veena Malik's photo on the website of FHM India, in advance of its publication in t
PeopleDec. 4, 2011
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Gold heads for biggest weekly gain in five after Korean purchase
Gold rose in New York, heading for the biggest weekly advance in five, on speculation central banks may increase holdings after South Korea bought bullion to diversify assets.The Bank of Korea, owner of the world's eighth-biggest foreign-exchange reserves, purchased 15 metric tons of gold last month
World BusinessDec. 3, 2011