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Tensions heighten ahead of first president-opposition chief meeting
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Seoul to provide housing subsidy to married couples with newborns
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[KH Explains] No more 'Michael' at Kakao Games
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Rapper jailed after public street fight with another rapper
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Woman gets suspended term for injuring boyfriend with knife
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Samsung chief bolsters ties with Germany’s Zeiss
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NewJeans pops out ‘Bubble Gum’ video amid troubles at agency
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[Grace Kao] Hybe vs. Ador: Inspiration, imitation and plagiarism
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Med schools expect 1,500+ new admission slots next year
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Nominee for chief of anti-corruption body pledges 'independence, effectiveness'
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Toddler found alive in rubble of China train crash
BEIJING (AP) -- A toddler was rescued about 21 hours after a crash involving two high-speed trains in eastern China killed at least 35 people and injured more than 190 others, state media reported.Rescuers carry an injured child to sent her to a hospital at the site where a high-speed train crash occurred in Wenzhou, east China's Zhejiang province, on Sunday. (AP-Yonhap News)Xinhua News Agency sai
World NewsJuly 25, 2011
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Police raise Norway massacre death toll to 93
OSLO (AFP) -- Police on Sunday said twin attacks by a crazed gunman in Norway claimed their 93rd victim, when one of those injured in Friday's bombing and shooting spree died in hospital."The total is now 93 dead," Oslo police spokesman Anders Fridenberg told AFP with the search for missing persons also ongoing both in government buildings hit by explosives and around the island scene of the gun r
World NewsJuly 24, 2011
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Focus on Islamists let other extremists go under radar
STOCKHOLM (AFP) -- Security services in Norway and elsewhere in the region had recently shifted their focus to Islamist extremism, letting other forms of terror slip under the radar, experts said. While there had been initial fears that Friday's twin attacks might have been an act of revenge for Norway's participation in the campaigns in Afghanistan and Libya, everything changed when it emerged
World NewsJuly 24, 2011
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Norway’s twin terror attacks kill 92
OSLO (AFP) ― The suspect in Norway’s twin attacks that killed at least 92 people admitted responsibility and said the carnage was long planned as the nation mourned victims of its worst violence since World War II.Anders Behring Breivik, 32, was arrested for allegedly shooting at least 85 people dead at a youth Labour Party meeting on an island and killing seven more in a car bomb explosion which
World NewsJuly 24, 2011
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States eye fee increases as tax alternative
NARRAGANSETT, Rhode Island (AP) ― Twenty dollars for a parking place wasn’t going to ruin Ellen Majka’s day at the beach. But she was still taken aback when she arrived at Rhode Island’s popular Scarborough state beach and learned that parking fees had nearly doubled.“It seems a little steep to me,” said Majka, of Westfield, Massachusetts. “Add in the price of gas and it starts to add up. But I di
World BusinessJuly 24, 2011
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Union drive puts IKEA’s global image to the test
RICHMOND, Virginia (AP) ― The union attempting to represent workers at IKEA’s only U.S. plant is challenging the Swedish furniture giant’s vaunted corporate ethos, accusing the retailer of paying its American workers low wages and tolerating unsafe working conditions.Approximately 320 workers at IKEA’s Swedwood Danville plant will vote Wednesday whether to join the International Association of Mac
World BusinessJuly 24, 2011
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Partisan dispute to partially close FAA
WASHINGTON (AP) ― Efforts to avert a shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration failed Friday amid a disagreement over a $16.5 million cut in subsidies to 13 rural communities, ensuring that nearly 4,000 people will be temporarily out of work and federal airline ticket taxes will be suspended.Lawmakers were unable to resolve a partisan dispute over an extension of the agency’s operating autho
World BusinessJuly 24, 2011
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A boom in profits but a bust in jobs
WASHINGTON (AP) ― Strong second-quarter earnings from McDonald’s, General Electric and Caterpillar on Friday are just the latest proof that booming profits have allowed Corporate America to leave the Great Recession far behind.But millions of ordinary Americans are stranded in a labor market that looks like it’s still in recession. Unemployment is stuck at 9.2 percent, two years into what economis
World NewsJuly 24, 2011
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Beyonce says Eastwood film makes her day
World NewsJuly 24, 2011
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China’s No. 1 fugitive sent back after 12 years
BEIJING (AP) ― The fugitive at the center of a 12-year extradition court battle in Canada was returned Saturday to China, where he is accused of running a $10 billion smuggling ring that dealt in everything from cars to oil in a scandal touching the government’s highest levels. Chinese businessman Lai Changxing is escorted by Chinese authorities after he landed in Beijing on Saturday. (AFP-Yonhap
World NewsJuly 24, 2011
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Protest marches converge on Spain’s capital
MADRID (AP) ― Several hundred Spaniards angry about their country’s economic crisis protested on the outskirts of Madrid Saturday after spending about a month marching to the capital from their hometowns.The marchers set off from Barcelona and Bilbao in the north, Valencia in the east and Cadiz in the southwest on June 25. En route, they were joined by other people angry about Spain’s economic woe
World NewsJuly 24, 2011
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Chavez returns from Cuba after chemo
CARACAS (AP) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he soldiered through his first week of chemotherapy in Cuba with only minor discomfort but that a long process of additional treatment lies ahead as he confronts cancer.Chavez, 56, made an unannounced return to Venezuela late Saturday after spending a week in Cuba undergoing treatment. He strode away from the plane down a red carpet while troop
World NewsJuly 24, 2011
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Journalists protest abuse by Israeli security guards
JERUSALEM (AFP) -- Foreign journalists on Friday spoke of their distress after being asked to remove their bras for a security check before being allowed into the offices of Israel's prime minister.The three women were told by security personnel to undress and take off their bras for x-ray in two separate incidents at the Jerusalem offices of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier last week.Isr
July 24, 2011
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Norway police arrive 90 minutes after firing began
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Police arrived at an island massacre about an hour and a half after a gunman first opened fire, slowed because they didn't have quick access to a helicopter and then couldn't find a boat to make their way to the scene just several hundred yards (meters) offshore. The assailant surrendered when police finally reached him, but 82 people died before that.Survivors of the shooting
World NewsJuly 24, 2011
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Train collision in China kills 33, injures 190
BEIJING (AP) -- A Chinese bullet train crashed into another high-speed train that had stalled after being struck by lightning Saturday in eastern China, causing four carriages to fall off a viaduct and killing at least 33 people and injuring 190 others, state media reported.The first train was traveling from the Zhejiang provincial capital of Hangzhou when it lost power in the lightning strike and
World NewsJuly 24, 2011
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Norway suspect's tract says attacks prepared since 2009
OSLO (AFP) - A rambling 1,500-page tract apparently written by the Norwegian man accused of killing at least 92 people in twin attacks says he has been preparing the operation since at least autumn 2009.The Internet document is part diary, part bomb-making manual and part political rant in which Anders Behring Breivik details his Islamophobia, attacks on Marxism and his initiation as a Knight Temp
World NewsJuly 24, 2011
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Strong quake hits northern Japan
TOKYO, July 23, 2011 (AFP) - A strong 6.5-magnitude earthquake hit northern Japan Saturday, but there was no danger of a tsunami, the weather agency said.The quake happened at 1:34 pm (0434 GMT) off the Pacific coast of Miyagi prefecture, around the same area as the giant March 11 earthquake and tsunami, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.The depth of the quake was 40 kilometres (25 miles), it s
World NewsJuly 23, 2011
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UK nurse charged after 5 patients found dead
LONDON (AP) _ Police investigating the suspicious deaths of five patients at a hospital in northern England said Friday that they had charged a 27-year-old nurse in the case.Police and prosecutors say that Rebecca Leighton endangered the lives of patients at the Stepping Hill Hospital in the town of Stockport, near Manchester, by damaging saline bags, saline ampoules, and unspecified medical produ
World NewsJuly 23, 2011
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US 'encouraged' by Korea nuclear talks: Clinton
NUSA DUA, Indonesia, July 23, 2011 (AFP) - The United States said Saturday it was "encouraged" by unexpected and rare talks between North and South Korea over Pyongyang's nuclear programme.But US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told regional foreign ministers at an Asian security forum in Indonesia that the onus remained squarely on the North to prove its sincerity before six-party talks could
World NewsJuly 23, 2011
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Gunman's background puzzles police in Norway
STOCKHOLM (AP) _ The 32-year-old suspected of massacring at least 80 young people at a summer camp and setting off a bomb in downtown Oslo that killed at least seven is a mystery to investigators: a right-winger with anti-Muslim views but no known links to hardcore extremists. A young victim is helped in the center of Oslo, Norway on Friday, July 22, 2011, after a bomb ripped open buildings in the
World NewsJuly 23, 2011