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Marine Corps commander summoned by CIO for questioning on alleged influence-peddling case
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Army takes group action against Hybe for neglecting BTS
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Debate rages over ‘overly fatty’ samgyeopsal
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Ador CEO's request for exclusive right to terminate NewJeans' contract with Hybe refused in February
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[Weekender] Korean psyche untangled: Musok
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Naver will consider company benefits in deciding on selling Line shares: CEO
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Hankook Tire takes over control of Hanon Systems
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[Eye Interview] 'If you live to 100, you might as well be happy,' says 88-year-old bestselling essayist
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S. Korea, Japan, China agree to create new financing facility against regional crises
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From fake prostitution ring to nonexistent robber, prank calls hamper police
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Greek economy shrinks 6.2%
ATHENS (AFP) ― The Greek economy, struggling in a fifth year of recession, shrank 6.2 percent in the second quarter compared with a year earlier, official data showed on Monday.The economy contracted 6.5 percent in the first quarter, worse than the initially given 6.2 percent, according to revised figures issued in June.The Bank of Greece expects the economy to shrink 4.5 percent for 2012 as a whole, following a 6.9 percent drop last year.The country is relying on two financial rescue packages b
World BusinessAug. 14, 2012
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World’s smallest siblings grab public attention
Bridgette and Bradley Jordan, living in Centralia, Illinois, may have the basketball legend’s last name, but that is all they have in common with 1.98-meter-tall Michael Jordan.The 23-year-old Bridgette Jordan is 68 centimeters, and her brother, 21, stands at 97 cm. Both of them have Majewski osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism type ll, a rare disease associated with brain and skeletal abnormalities. The siblings’ lives are somewhat different from others. They take showers in the sink and use a
World NewsAug. 14, 2012
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Police: NJ man locked girlfriend in room for years
(MCT)Police searching an apartment for drugs found a woman they believe was kept padlocked in a bedroom for long periods of time over the last several years — perhaps as long as a decade.State police said members of their street gang unit discovered the 44-year-old woman on Thursday as they searched the Paterson home of 42-year-old Michael Mendez, believed to be a member of the Latin Kings street
World NewsAug. 14, 2012
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Man selling ‘Michael Jackson’ bird poop
A Chicago-area man put the windshield of his car up for auction because it has a bird dropping he says looks like the late pop star Michael Jackson.“One of two things will happen,” said owner Brandon Tudor, an Oswego salesman and father of three. “It will go for an astronomical amount or I‘ll get nothing.”Tudor, 29, said he was driving along U.S. Highway 30 near Big Rock Wednesday when bird poop hit the windshield of his 1996 Cadillac Seville, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.He said he immediatel
Aug. 14, 2012
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Harry, Amelia top baby names in Britain
The Office of National Statistics for England and Wales said the top baby names for 2011 were Harry for boys and Amelia for girls.The office said Harry was followed on the list by Oliver, Jack, Alfie, Charlie, Thomas, Jacob, James, Joshua and William.Meanwhile, Amelia was followed on the girls‘ list by Olivia, Lily, Jessica, Emily, Sophie, Ruby, Grace, Ava and Isabella.“There are a number of possible reasons why the popularity of baby names can change over time,” the office said in a release. “T
Aug. 14, 2012
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Kangaroos escape zoo with help of fox, pig
German authorities are looking for a kangaroo that escaped from an animal park near Frankfurt with the help of a fox and a wild pig.According to news reports, three kangaroos left their enclosure through a hole in the fence made by a fox. Then two of them passed the park’s exterior barriers through another hole dug by a wild pig.Two of the kangaroos were recaptured, but the last one was evasive, the animal park said.The park said the animal was not dangerous.“He’s super friendly, super nice. Abs
World NewsAug. 14, 2012
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Police shoot, kill man near NYC Times Square
(123rf)Police shot and killed a man they say lunged at them with a knife in a confrontation that began in Times Square and drew officers and spectators on a chase that ended with shots fired near one of New York's most heavily touristed areas.The encounter played out Saturday around 3 p.m., when officers approached a 51-year-old man they say appeared to be smoking marijuana near West 44th Street a
World NewsAug. 14, 2012
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Army chief retired in surprise Egypt shake-up
CAIRO (AFP) ― Egypt’s Islamist President Mohammed Morsi on Sunday ordered the surprise retirement of his powerful defense minister and scrapped a constitutional document which handed sweeping powers to the military.In a move that drew thousands of Islamist supporters to Cairo’s Tahrir Square in celebration, Morsi effectively dismissed Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, who ruled Egypt for more than a year after the revolution that toppled former president Hosni Mubarak.The president also scrapped a
World NewsAug. 13, 2012
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Israel tests SMS missile alerts as Iran chatter grows
JERUSALEM (AFP) ― Israel on Sunday began testing an SMS system for warning the public of an imminent missile attack as chatter over a possible strike on Iran dominated the Israeli press headlines.As testing began, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel had chalked up “a significant improvement” in its home front defense capabilities, mentioning its highly-vaunted anti-missile systems such as Iron Dome and Arrow 2.“There has been a significant improvement in our level of defense capacity o
World NewsAug. 13, 2012
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Suu Kyi meets Myanmar president
YANGON (AFP) ― Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi held talks with the country’s president on Sunday in their first official meeting since she took up her role as a member of parliament.The democracy champion met Myanmar leader Thein Sein in the capital Naypyidaw early Sunday, according to Zaw Htay of the president’s office, who was unable to give details of the subjects under discussion.He added that Railway Minister Aung Min, a key figure in efforts to resolve the country’s ethnic confl
World NewsAug. 13, 2012
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Urban disasters spotlight strain on Asian cities
BANGKOK (AFP) ― Deadly floods, power blackouts and traffic gridlock ― many of Asia’s biggest cities are buckling under the strain of rapid economic development, extreme weather and an exodus from the countryside.Poor strategic planning, paltry investment in infrastructure and a lack of political will have also left the region’s overcrowded metropolises highly vulnerable to the pressures of climate change, experts say.Over the past year Bangkok and Manila have been hit by the most devastating flo
World NewsAug. 13, 2012
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Romney vows to restore U.S. strength
WAUKESHA, Wisconsin (AFP) ― Republican candidate Mitt Romney vowed to restore American strength and avert “fiscal calamity” Sunday, as his re-energized presidential campaign drew a furious Democratic response.With campaign battle lines re-forming, surrogates for President Barack Obama took to Sunday talk shows to cast Romney and his new running mate, Paul Ryan, as bent on dismantling cherished entitlements like public health insurance and pensions for seniors.But Romney and Ryan sought to portra
World NewsAug. 13, 2012
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Italy needs ‘quiet’ markets, not EU aid
Debt-laden Italy does not need rescue funds from the European Union but could use “a little quiet” on the markets, Finance Minister Vittorio Grilli said in an interview published Sunday.“We think the instruments put in place by the Central European Bank, when they are operational, will substantially ease tensions on the spreads” between bond yields in Italy and Germany, he told the left-leaning daily La Repubblica.“The only thing that would be useful is a little quiet on the markets ... normalis
World BusinessAug. 13, 2012
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Iraq oil production tops Iran: official
BAGHDAD (AFP) ― Iraq’s oil output now stands at 3.2 million barrels per day, outpacing neighboring Iran to become the second-biggest producer in OPEC, Iraq’s top energy official said on Sunday.“Oil production is now at 3.2 (million bpd), higher than other countries like Iran, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait,” Hussein al-Shahristani, deputy prime minister responsible for energy affairs, told journalists.Iraq has sought to dramatically increase its oil output and exports, the latter of which a
World BusinessAug. 13, 2012
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Germany warns it could veto Greek aid
BERLIN (AFP) ― Germany will block any new aid to ailing Greece if Athens does not fully comply with the terms of previous rescue packages, even if other countries support unlocking funds, a senior lawmaker said Sunday.The deputy head of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative parliamentary bloc, Michael Fuchs, told business daily Handelsblatt that Berlin was ready to use its veto if it is unhappy with findings from the Greece creditors “troika.”“You can quote me: even if the glass is half-full,
World BusinessAug. 13, 2012
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Crisis has no end in sight: King
BOE governor says banks can learn from Olympic GamesBank of England Governor Mervyn King said the U.K. must press on with reforms to the banking industry and repeated his gloomy outlook for the euro-area debt crisis, which is impeding Britain’s economy. “If the rest of the world were growing normally, the rebalancing and recovery of our economy would be much easier,” King wrote in an article in the Mail on Sunday newspaper. “But it isn’t. Even the rapidly expanding emerging-market economies are
World BusinessAug. 13, 2012
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China’s food safety fighter
After reading a news report on how rogue operators in China marinated pork in banned chemicals to pass off as beef, which costs more, Wu Heng felt sick.It dawned on the IT marketing executive that the cheap and good 10 yuan ($1.60) beef rice he had been eating almost every day for half a year was in fact contaminated pork.“My roommate had warned me it didn’t taste like beef. And that beef couldn’t be that cheap. I didn’t understand. I didn’t know there could be such a thing as fake beef,” said t
World NewsAug. 13, 2012
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Manila flood blamed on urbanization
Group sees unfettered urbanization and political gridlock as main factorsThere was no storm over Metro Manila last week. But why was there so much rain? Why was the flooding so severe?Those were the questions asked by Jose Ma. Lorenzo Tan, CEO of the environmental group Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF)-Philippines.Filipinos, not the monsoon rains, are to blame for the deluge that paralyzed the metropolitan area of 14 million residents last week, according to Tan.In an analysis, Tan said the late
World NewsAug. 13, 2012
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Time’s Zakaria suspended for copying other writer’s work
NEW YORK (AP) ― Time editor-at-large and CNN host Fareed Zakaria has been suspended by both the magazine and the network for lifting several paragraphs by another writer for his use in a recent Time column. Zakaria apologized Friday, declaring in a statement he made “a terrible mistake,” adding, “It is a serious lapse and one that is entirely my fault.”In a separate statement, Time spokesman Ali Zelenko said the magazine accepts Zakaria’s apology, but would suspend his column for one month, “pen
World NewsAug. 13, 2012
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Woman attacked while driving
A Florida woman says her ex-boyfriend crawled out of her car trunk and began beating her as she drove home from work earlier this month.Peter Maya, 24, was lodged in the Broward County jail after he allegedly hid in the woman‘s trunk and then squeezed into the back seat and began hitting her while she drove along a street in Aventura, the South Florida Sun Sentinel said Sunday.Keisha Bethel of Oakland Park told police Maya struck her repeatedly and pulled her back into the vehicle when she tried
World NewsAug. 13, 2012