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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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Seoul Metro to seek legal action against malicious complaints
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On May Day, labor unions blast Yoon's foreign nanny proposal
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Illit, mired in controversy, remains on Billboard charts for 5th week
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Opposition-led Assembly unilaterally passes bill to probe Marine's death
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[KH Explains] Will alternative trading platform shake up Korean stock market?
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Clinton draws line between Myanmar, N. Korea regarding engagement
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday that it's still premature to consider a trip to North Korea with its leader turning a deaf ear to international calls for democratization.On a historic trip to Myanmar apparently as part of the Barack Obama administration's efforts to
WorldDec. 3, 2011
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Syria at civil war with 4,000 dead: U.N.
BEIRUT (AP) ― Syria has entered a state of civil war with more than 4,000 people dead and an increasing number of soldiers defecting from the army to fight President Bashar Assad’s regime, the U.N.’s top human rights official said Thursday.Civil war has been the worst-case scenario in Syria since the revolt against Assad began eight months ago. Damascus has a web of allegiances that extends to Lebanon’s powerful Hezbollah movement and Iran’s Shiite theocracy, raising fears of a regional conflagr
World NewsDec. 2, 2011
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Clinton, Suu Kyi vow to work together to promote democracy in Myanmar
YANGON (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, two of the world’s most recognizable female leaders, pledged Friday to work together to bring democracy to Suu Kyi’s long isolated and repressive nation.Wrapping up a historic three-day visit to Myanmar, Clinton held hands with Suu Kyi on the porch of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate’s lakeside home where she spent much of the past two decades under house arrest and thanked her for her “st
World NewsDec. 2, 2011
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EU ministers fail to agree on Iran oil ban
BRUSSELS (AP) ― EU foreign ministers failed Thursday to reach an agreement to impose an oil embargo against Iran ― a measure that some argued would have choked off funding for Iran’s alleged program to develop nuclear weapons.But the ministers, incensed by the attack Tuesday by an angry mob on the British Embassy in Tehran, did impose a new round of sanctions targeting dozens of people, groups and businesses in the country.The ministers also imposed new sanctions on Syrian individuals and busine
World NewsDec. 2, 2011
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Toyota, BMW strike green-car technology pact
TOKYO (AFP) ― Automakers Toyota and BMW on Thursday struck a partnership to share eco-friendly technologies, including in the joint development of lithium-ion batteries for next-generation electric cars, the companies said.Under the deal, the German automaker will also provide diesel engines for Toyota as the Japanese auto giant looks to boost sales in Europe, where more than half of passenger cars are diesel powered.Toyota has struggled to boost its European market share with its gasoline-elect
World BusinessDec. 2, 2011
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U.S. auto sales come in strong in November
DETROIT (AP) ― Americans are finally replacing the cars and trucks they held on to during the economic slump, giving a big boost to U.S. auto sales in November.Chrysler, Ford, Nissan and Hyundai were among the companies reporting double-digit gains from last November, which is normally a lackluster month because of colder weather and holiday distractions. This November, buyers were lured by good deals, improving confidence in the economy and the need to trade in older cars.“Consumers are just st
World BusinessDec. 2, 2011
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Afghan president pardons imprisoned rape victim
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) _ Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday pardoned an Afghan woman serving a 12-year prison sentence for having sex out of wedlock after she was raped by a relative.Karzai's office said in a statement that the woman and her attacker have agreed to marry. That would reverse
World NewsDec. 2, 2011
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Clinton tests reforms on visit to Myanmar
NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar (AP) ― Looking to cement a foreign policy success and prod democratization in one of the world’s most isolated and authoritarian nations, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sought Thursday to test the willingness of Myanmar’s leaders to expand nascent reforms.On a historic visit here, Clinton said she was hopeful, but not yet convinced, that “flickers of progress” in the Southeast Asian country will burst into flames of change.Clinton, speaking to Myanmar’s Preside
World NewsDec. 1, 2011
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Coca-Cola product suspected in China death
BEIJING (AFP) ― A man died and his mother fell into a coma after consuming a product made by U.S. giant Coca-Cola, prompting a city in northeast China to recall the drink, government and state media said Wednesday.Food scandals occur regularly in China, with recent cases involving recycled cooking oil, contaminated eggs and carcinogenic mushrooms.Identified only by his surname Chu, the man died after drinking a bottle of strawberry flavoured milk sold under the brand name “Guoli Naiyou” and made
World BusinessDec. 1, 2011
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Slowdown sparks scramble to shore up China growth
SHANGHAI (AP) ― Chinese leaders are scrambling to shore up flagging economic growth as exports weaken, abruptly reversing course after they spent two years struggling to cool an overheated expansion and surging inflation.In the latest sign the world’s No. 2 economy is weakening faster than thought, a business index released Thursday showed manufacturing contracted for the first time in nearly three years. A day earlier, Beijing eased credit curbs in a bid to spur business activity.Struggling to
World BusinessDec. 1, 2011
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Greece faces tough challenge as unions strike
ATHENS (AFP) ― Greece’s new government will see its resolve tested Thursday as unions take to the streets against the latest austerity cuts demanded by its European peers in return for funds to keep the country afloat.Thursday’s general strike, the sixth this year, will shut down public services, disrupt train and ferriy services and see state hospitals on emergency staffing levels.The protests, likely to see a set-piece stand-off in central Athens between riot police and demonstrators, follow s
World BusinessDec. 1, 2011
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Israel to release withheld money to Palestinians
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) ― Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ government narrowly dodged a full-blown cash crisis after Israel agreed Wednesday ― under intense international pressure ― to resume the transfer of $100 million a month in frozen tax funds.The episode illustrated the fragile financial foundations of Abbas’ West Bank-based Palestinian Authority and the broad international consensus that it needs to keep functioning to ensure some stability, especially at a time of diplomatic deadloc
World NewsDec. 1, 2011
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Deeper meltdown at Japan nuke reactor: study
TOKYO (AP) ― Radioactive debris from melted fuel rods may have seeped deeper into the floor of a Japan’s tsunami-hit nuclear reactor than previously thought, to within a foot from breaching the crucial steel barrier, a new simulation showed Wednesday.The findings will not change the ongoing efforts to stabilize the reactors more than eight months after the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant was disabled, but they harshly depict the meltdowns that occurred and conditions within the reactors, which will be
World NewsDec. 1, 2011
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Border drug tunnel found in Mexico
TIJUANA, Mexico (AFP) ― Mexican authorities have unearthed a 600-meter drug smuggling tunnel beneath the U.S. border, the second such find in the same area this month.The 4.5-meter-deep tunnel found on Tuesday was similar to another tunnel found on Nov. 16, and contained both lighting and transport carts, indicating the growing technical sophistication of the country’s powerful drug cartels.“The tunnel was located after we were informed of it by U.S. authorities,” who had found the other end of
World NewsDec. 1, 2011
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Britain orders Iran’s diplomats to leave
LONDON (AP) ― Britain ordered all Iranian diplomats out of the U.K. within 48 hours and shuttered its ransacked embassy in Tehran on Wednesday, in a significant escalation of tensions between Iran and the West.The ouster of the entire Iranian diplomatic corps deepens Iran’s international isolation amid growing suspicions over its nuclear program. At least four other European countries also moved to reduce diplomatic contacts with Iran.The British measures were announced by Foreign Secretary Will
World NewsDec. 1, 2011
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New Zealand least corrupt, Somalia, North Korea worst in the world
BERLIN (AP) ― Widespread corruption ignited protests this year across the Middle East and in those nations badly shaken by Europe’s debt crisis as citizens demanded accountability from their governments, an international watchdog said Thursday.A movement for greater transparency took on greater momentum in 2011 forcing leaders and bureaucracies to “heed the demands for better government,” Transparency International said in its annual corruption perceptions index that scored 183 countries based o
World NewsDec. 1, 2011
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Pressure on Russian voters: watchdog
MOSCOW (AP) ― Alexei Balitsky, a student at Russia’s top engineering school, is among hundreds of people across the country who have complained of pressure to vote for the Kremlin’s party in this weekend’s parliamentary elections.The independent election watchdog group Golos said Wednesday that about a third of the 4,000 complaints of violations it has received so far come from voters who say they are being pressured ― mostly by bosses at work or professors at universities ― to vote for United R
World NewsDec. 1, 2011
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Belgium parties agree on deal to end 535-day crisis
BRUSSELS (AFP) ― Political parties in Belgium, which has been without a government for 535 days, agreed Wednesday on the blueprint of a ruling coalition to be headed by French-speaking Socialist Elio Di Rupo.“There is a global agreement, on the reform of the state, socio-economic questions and a government platform,” a source close to the negotiations told AFP.Di Rupo emerged from the talks with a smile, but refused comment after days of trying to hammer out a deal between six parties split by p
World NewsDec. 1, 2011
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After raids, Occupy protesters shift tactics
Major demonstrations nearing end as police dismantle Philadelphia, L.A. sitesNEW YORK (AP) ― The overnight police raids in Philadelphia and Los Angeles that dismantled two of the nation’s biggest Occupy Wall Street encampments leave just a few major “occupations” still going on around the U.S. But activists are already changing tactics and warning of a winter of discontent, with rallies and marches every week.The camps may bloom again in the spring, organizers said, and next summer could bring h
World NewsDec. 1, 2011
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S&P downgrades top U.S. banks’ credit ratings
NEW YORK (AP) ― Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has lowered its credit ratings for many of the world’s largest financial institutions, including the biggest banks in the U.S.Bank of America Corp. and its main subsidiaries are among the institutions whose ratings fell at least one notch Tuesday, along with Citigroup Inc., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo & Co.S&P said the changes in 37 financial companies’ ratings reflect the firm’s new criteria fo
World BusinessNov. 30, 2011