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Opposition-led Assembly unilaterally passes bill to probe Marine's death
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Golden chance to liquidate babies’ gold rings?
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Inflation eases in April, continues bumpy ride
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Seoul to more than double military drones by 2026 to counter NK threats
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Russia sent more than 165,000 barrels of refined petroleum to N. Korea in March: White House
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Seoul alerts overseas missions to NK terror threats
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Over 60% of S. Koreans support W100m childbirth incentive: survey
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Key suspects grilled over alleged abuse of power in Marine death inquiry
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‘Inside Out 2’ adds four new emotions, explores teenage life
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Questions raised over fair promotion of RM, NewJeans
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Europe considers Greek default, leaders to meet
World BusinessJuly 13, 2011
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Japan P.M.’s ratings at record low 15 percent
TOKYO (AFP) ― Support for the cabinet of Japan’s Prime Minister Naoto Kan has plunged to 15 percent, the lowest level since his center-left party took power in 2009, a newspaper poll said Tuesday.Seventy percent of voters want Kan ― under pressure over his handling of the March 11 quake, tsunami and nuclear disaster ― to resign before parliament enters a recess late next month, said the Asahi Shim
World NewsJuly 13, 2011
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Syria slams ‘provocative’ Clinton comments
Beirut says Assad’s legitimacy is from Syrian people’s willBEIRUT (AP) ― Syria accused Washington of provocation Tuesday after the U.S. said President Bashar Assad had lost legitimacy and the American administration had nothing invested in him remaining in power.U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton issued her strongest condemnation yet of Assad late Monday after mobs of hundreds of regim
World NewsJuly 13, 2011
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Cyprus protesters enter presidential palace grounds
NICOSIA (AP) ― Hundreds of angry marchers forced their way into the grounds of the Cypriot presidential palace in Nicosia late Tuesday, during a protest over a fatal blast at a naval base that killed 12, wrecked a key power plant and forced the resignations of the defense minister and top military chief.Protesters chanting “the people demand that the murderers are thrown in jail” were stopped at a
World NewsJuly 13, 2011
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Cameron weakened by phone hacking scandal
P.M.’s apparent closeness with News Corp. staff leads to doubts on leadershipLONDON (AP) ― He’s looked defensive. He’s looked outraged. He’s looked scared. But recently, Prime Minister David Cameron has rarely looked like he’s in charge.The British leader has lost his confident aura as his friendships with figures central to the tabloid hacking scandal hand his government its biggest crisis since
World NewsJuly 13, 2011
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Millionaire’s public marriage proposal fails
A Korean millionaire in the U.S. who made a public proposal through a matchmaking firm failed to find a partner because his wealth was concealed. The construction businessman in his 40s, who had never been married, made a public proposal through Korean dating service Sunoo, last month. The self-made man, surnamed Kim, graduated from an American university and has accumulated 50 billion won ($47 mi
July 13, 2011
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Three children stuck in a car at 40℃ while mother goes shopping
A British mother has been accused of leaving her three children unattended in a sweltering car for 45 minutes while she went shopping, the Daily Mail reported.Kelly Langham, 26, abandoned her three kids aged two, five and eight to go to a Cash Converter store as the temperature inside the car rose to 40 degrees Celsius.A witness reported that the youngest child was strapped into a car seat and was
World NewsJuly 13, 2011
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Syria’s Assad has lost legitimacy, Clinton says
World NewsJuly 12, 2011
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Starbucks reorganizes for world growth
World BusinessJuly 12, 2011
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Mercedes-Benz tops study of U.S. auto dealers
World BusinessJuly 12, 2011
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ArcelorMittal, Peabody bid for Macarthur coal
World BusinessJuly 12, 2011
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Fed chief to face grilling after weak jobs report
WASHINGTON (AP) ― Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke may feel surrounded when he testifies before Congress this week.From his left, Democrats will demand to know what the Fed can do to create jobs, especially after the government reported last week that unemployment rose to 9.2 percent in June and the economy generated just 18,000 net new jobs.From his right, Republicans will likely question th
World BusinessJuly 12, 2011
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Chinese general blasts U.S. military
BEIJING (AFP) ― China’s top military officer said Monday the timing of U.S. naval exercises in the South China Sea was “inappropriate,” after talks with his American counterpart aimed at cooling the territorial dispute.General Chen Bingde urged the United States to be “more modest and prudent in words and deeds”, amid growing tensions over China’s claims in the strategic and potentially resource-r
World NewsJuly 12, 2011
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‘Iranian weapons used against U.S. troops’
Panetta urges Iraq’s decision on whether it wants American soldiers to stayBAGHDAD (AP) ― A blunt and frustrated U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta expressed exasperation Monday with Iraqi indecision on whether it wants U.S. troops to stay next year. He threatened stronger U.S. action to stop Iranian-supplied weapons from killing Americans as they prepare to depart.To reinforce the message of con
World NewsJuly 12, 2011
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Brown was victim of phone-hacks: report
British police under scrutiny as scandal grows biggerLONDON (AFP) ― British lawmakers were to grill police chiefs Tuesday amid reports that royalty and ex-prime minister Gordon Brown were targeted in a phone-hacking scandal that felled Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World.Four past and present senior Scotland Yard officers were due to appear before a home affairs committee as the scandal spiraled an
World NewsJuly 12, 2011
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Julian Assange back in court to fight extradition
LONDON (AP) ― WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was due back in court Tuesday for the latest installation of his fight against extradition to Sweden, where the 40-year-old Australian is accused of rape and molestation.Assange’s disclosures of classified U.S. documents has infuriated the Pentagon, embarrassed State Department diplomats and energized critics of American foreign policy, but allegation
World NewsJuly 12, 2011
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'Hitler ordered Nazis to create sex dolls'
Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler ordered his troops to come up with a sex doll that would prevent his troops from contracting sexually transmitted diseases from prostitutes, according to reports. Author Graeme Donald’s research to the origins of the Barbie doll revealed that it may be based on a post-war German sex doll toy during the 1950’sSyphilis and gonorrhea were serious problems during World War I
July 12, 2011
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Whoa, baby! Texas mom delivers 16-pound newborn
LONGVIEW, Texas (AP) -- A Texas mom expected a big baby, but nothing like this: 16 pounds, 1 ounce (7.3 kilograms).Janet Johnson on Monday remained in an East Texas hospital after giving birth to what her doctors called one of the biggest newborns they've ever seen. She was awaiting word on whether her son, JaMichael Brown, ranked among the biggest births in state history.This photo provided by Go
World NewsJuly 12, 2011
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High levels of caesium found in Fukushima beef
This file photo shows a Japanese woman browsing for beef in a food hall in Tokyo. (Bloomberg)More than six times the legal limit of radioactive caesium has been found in beef from Fukushima prefecture, home to Japan's crippled nuclear plant, an official statement said Saturday.The meat came from one of 11 cows shipped this month to Tokyo from a farmer in Minamisoma city, according to the statement
World NewsJuly 12, 2011
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Chinese 13 years of runway murderer caught after appearing on TV
A Chinese murderer was caught after 13 years as the man in his forties appeared on a television dating program only to reveal his real identity and past crime.The man surnamed Wu, was finally arrested after having committed a murder during a fight at a pub in 1998, and running from the Chinese police for 13 years, the People’s Daily reported.Wu changed his name to Liu Hao and lived with a new iden
World NewsJuly 12, 2011