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[Exclusive] Korean military set to ban iPhones over 'security' concerns
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Korean, Romanian leaders discuss defense tech, nuclear energy
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S. Korea calls on Japan to confront history amid Yasukuni Shrine visit
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Yoon’s jailed mother-in-law excluded from latest parole list
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Hybe and Min Hee-jin, CEO of Hybe sublabel Ador, lock horns
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[Herald Interview] 'Amid aging population, Korea to invite more young professionals from overseas'
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[Pressure points] Leggings in public: Fashion statement or social faux pas?
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Korea’s homegrown nanosatellite successfully launches into space
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Nicaragua shuts down Seoul embassy
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Rocket engine expert, ex-NASA exec to lead Korea's new space agency
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ECB leaves interest rates unchanged
BERLIN -- The European Central bank left interest rates unchanged on Thursday, holding off on a step many economists think the eurozone's chief monetary authority will eventually take by year-end to support a weakening economy.Markets waited for bank head Jean-Claude Trichet's last news conference t
World BusinessOct. 6, 2011
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Asian tech giants remember Jobs as ‘leading light’
HONG KONG (AFP) -- Asia‘s technology giants paid tribute to Steve Jobs on Thursday, with Sony and Samsung hailing the late Apple co-founder as the leading light of the digital age and an inspirational entrepreneur.Fans in tech-savvy Japan and Singapore held silent prayers at Apple stores while in Ch
World BusinessOct. 6, 2011
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Afghans rally in Kabul, demand NATO troops leave
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Hundreds of people marched through the streets of the Afghan capital on Thursday, demanding the immediate withdrawal of international military forces ahead of the 10th anniversary of the U.S. invasion.The peaceful demonstration in downtown Kabul was meant to mark the Oct.
World NewsOct. 6, 2011
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Apple's Steve Jobs, father of Mac, iPhone, dies
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Steve Jobs saw the future and led the world to it. He moved technology from garages to pockets, took entertainment from discs to bytes and turned gadgets into extensions of the people who use them.Jobs, who founded and ran Apple, told us what we needed before we wanted it. Appl
World NewsOct. 6, 2011
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Palin decides not run for U.S. president
WASHINGTON (AP) ― Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said Wednesday she will not run for president, leaving little doubt that the eventual Republican nominee will come from the current field of contenders.After months of leaving her fans guessing, Palin said in a statement that she and her husband Todd
World NewsOct. 6, 2011
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Steve Jobs legacy reaches far beyond Apple
Steve Jobs was once known as the man who saved Apple computers. He will be remembered as one of the rare few who changed the world.Jobs guided Apple from the brink of financial ruin to a lofty place among the world’s most valuable companies before his death on Wednesday.But thinking of Jobs merely a
World BusinessOct. 6, 2011
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10 products that defined Steve Jobs‘ career
NEW YORK (AP) -- Steve Jobs had no formal schooling in engineering, yet he’s listed as the inventor or co-inventor on more than 300 U.S. patents. These are some of the significant products that were created under his direction:1. Apple I (1976) -- Apple’s first product was a computer for hobbyists a
World BusinessOct. 6, 2011
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Karzai assassination plot foiled: official
KABUL (AP) ― Afghan intelligence officials said Wednesday that they had broken up a cell that plotted to kill President Hamid Karzai, arresting six people in Kabul whom they claimed were affiliated with al-Qaida and the Haqqani militant group.Intelligence service spokesman Latifullah Mashal said tha
World NewsOct. 6, 2011
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Jobs tributes light up iPhones, iPads and Twitter worldwide
CHICAGO (AP) ― There’s no makeshift memorial or candlelight vigil for Steve Jobs at the Apple Store in downtown Chicago. The tributes and condolences are in tweets and news alerts pulsing through the iPhones, iPads and laptop computers inside.One customer visiting from Ireland says he heard the news
World BusinessOct. 6, 2011
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Attacks kill six in south Yemen
ADEN (AFP) ― Rival attacks by suspected al-Qaida militants and pro-government militiamen east of the Yemen’s main southern city Aden on Wednesday killed six people, tribal sources said.“Militiamen supporting the army attacked a public building in (the Abyan provincial capital) Zinjibar killing four
World NewsOct. 6, 2011
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Civil rights leader Shuttlesworth dies
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (AP) ― A civil rights leader, the Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, who was hailed by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. for his courage and energy, has died. He was 89.Princeton Baptist Medical Center spokeswoman Jennifer Dodd confirms he died at the Birmingham hospital Wednesday morning
World NewsOct. 6, 2011
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Apple's Jobs 'died peacefully': family
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) -- Apple co-founder Steve Jobs died "peacefully", his family said Wednesday, thanking those who had supported them through the past year of his battle with cancer."Steve died peacefully today surrounded by his family," his relatives said in a statement."In his public life, Steve
World NewsOct. 6, 2011
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New Apple CEO Cook mourns loss of 'visionary' Jobs
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) -- Apple's new CEO Tim Cook on Wednesday mourned the loss of company co-founder Steve Jobs, who died Wednesday from cancer at age 56."Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being," said Cook, who took the company helm in August. "S
World NewsOct. 6, 2011
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Shechtman of Israel wins Nobel chemistry prize for quasicrystals
STOCKHOLM (AP) -- Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman won the 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for his discovery of quasicrystals, a chemical structure that researchers previously thought was impossible.(AP-Yonhap News)The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said Shechtman‘s discovery in 1982
World NewsOct. 6, 2011
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Hitler Jewish annihilation letter on display
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Adolf Hitler’s anti-Semitic 1919 Gemlich letter, described as the most significant document ever acquired by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, is now on display at the Los Angeles center’s Museum of Tolerance.Hitler’s letter was typewritten decades before the Holocaust when he was a G
World NewsOct. 5, 2011
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Iran criticizes Turkey over defense shield
TEHRAN (AP) ― Iran criticized Turkey on Tuesday for agreeing to allow NATO to station an early warning radar in the southeast of the country that will serve as part of the alliance’s missile defense system.President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claimed the defense system was meant to protect Israel against I
World NewsOct. 5, 2011
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Russia, China veto U.N. resolution on Syria
Old allies cooperate to thwart sanction on Damascus; crackdown has led to 2,700 deaths so farUNITED NATIONS (AP) ― Russia and China vetoed a European-backed U.N. Security Council resolution Tuesday that threatened sanctions against Syria if it didn’t immediately halt its military crackdown against c
World NewsOct. 5, 2011
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American Airlines faces turbulent ride
NEW YORK (AP) ― American Airlines’ CEO is proud that his company, unlike its biggest rivals, avoided the bankruptcy process to remake itself. Investors aren’t so sure.As the economic outlook darkens, the airline industry is bracing for trouble. Among the biggest U.S. carriers, American has the most
World BusinessOct. 5, 2011
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Ford to pay workers $6,000 bonus in new contract
DETROIT (AP) ― The union that once set the gold standard for American wages is giving up pay raises in exchange for a piece of the auto industry’s profits and the promise of thousands of new jobs.Under agreements struck with Ford and General Motors, most of the companies’ factory workers will get pr
World BusinessOct. 5, 2011
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Truck bomb kills 70 in Somali capital
MOGADISHU (AP) ― Al-Qaida-linked militants launched their deadliest single bombing in Somalia, killing 70 people and demonstrating how the group that blocked aid to famine victims can still mount devastating violence even after most of its fighters fled the capital in August.A truck loaded with drum
World NewsOct. 5, 2011