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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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[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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Top prosecutor orders speedy investigation into first lady's alleged acceptance of luxury handbag
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Man, 76: Mom of girlfriend, 25, approves
A 76-year-old British lawyer who left his 55-year-old girlfriend, a judge, for a paralegal who is 25 says he has the blessing of the young woman‘s mother.Anthony Arlidge of London said he met Heather Lockwood last September and they quickly fell in love, causing him to end his relationship with Judge Constance Briscoe and move out of her $1.5 million home to get an apartment with Lockwood, The Daily Telegraph reported Friday.Arlidge said he and Lockwood are “very happy” together.“I’ve met her mo
World NewsAug. 13, 2012
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Auschwitz collaborator faces jail time
Laszlo Csatary, 97, a former senior police officer in Kosice, Slovakia, is expected to face life imprisonment for his role in deporting 15,700 Jews to Auschwitz.Slovakia’s Justice Minister Tomas Borec has asked a court in Kassa, where Csatary worked as a police chief, for an international arrest warrant and an extradition request.“This is one of the last possibilities for us to punish someone for crimes carried out during the World War II,” he said.After the war ended, Csatary led a secret life.
World NewsAug. 13, 2012
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Rhino poaching big problem in S. Africa
Increased rhinoceros poaching in South Africa has authorities scrambling to combat the often-deadly practice, officials said.So far this year in South Africa, 281 rhinos were killed for their horns, up from the 13 dead rhinos found in 2007, SpiegelONLINE reported Sunday.After poachers obtain the horns, they smuggle them out of South Africa and into countries such as Vietnam, Laos and China, where they are made into a powder some believe can cure illnesses from cancer to malaria.Authorities in So
World NewsAug. 13, 2012
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Sleeping swimmer mistaken for drowning man
A man floating on a central Pennsylvania river was mistaken for a drowning victim — until he sat up.WNEP-TV reports police and a coroner arrived at the scene Thursday along the Susquehanna River near Williamsport.Onlookers reported seeing the man floating face-up in a lifejacket just below a dam. The area has seen drownings before.Turns out the man had fallen asleep while cooling off on a hot summ
World NewsAug. 13, 2012
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New storm dumps rain in flood-battered Philippines
MANILA, Philippines _ A new storm is forecast to dump more rain in the flood-battered northern Philippines a week after nearly 100 people died in a monsoon deluge that submerged half of the sprawling capital city.Officials in Cavite province southwest of Manila closed schools in Rosario town Monday because of downpours, and rescuers began evacuating landslide-prone areas in Manila's suburban Quezo
World NewsAug. 13, 2012
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Egypt's president seizes powers back from military
Egytpian President Mohamed Morsi (AFP-Yonhap News)Egypt's Islamist president ordered the retirement of the defense minister and chief of staff on Sunday and made the boldest move so far to seize back powers that the military stripped from his office right before he took over. Mohammed Morsi has been locked in a power struggle with the military since he took office on June 30. But after militants k
World NewsAug. 13, 2012
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Romney picks Ryan as running mate
NORFOLK, Virginia (AP) ― Republican Mitt Romney introduced Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan as his vice presidential running mate on Saturday, turning to an ardent conservative and budget-cutting specialist to shore up support for his candidacy among the party’s conservative base. The party establishment, rank-and-file conservatives and small-government, anti-tax tea party groups all cheered the pick made by Romney. As chairman of the House Budget Committee, Ryan is the architect of a deeply cons
World NewsAug. 12, 2012
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Mute Indian stranded in Pakistan desperate for home
KARACHI (AFP) ― When South Asia’s nuclear rivals celebrate 65 years of independence this week, a deaf and mute Indian woman stranded in Pakistan will be thinking of only one thing: how to get home to see her family.Geeta, now 21, was found by police 13 years ago, sitting alone and disorientated on a train that had come across the border into Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore.As no one claimed her, officers took Geeta to the Edhi Foundation, Pakistan’s largest and best-known charity, in whose car
World NewsAug. 12, 2012
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Sharp may sell plants to Hon Hai
TOKYO (AFP) ― Japanese electronics giant Sharp is considering selling overseas factories to Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision in a bid to turn around its ailing finances, reports said Saturday.The reports came as Hon Hai pushes to change the terms of its agreement to take a 10-percent stake in the cash-strapped firm, whose shares plunged this month after it announced a huge loss.The Nikkei business daily said Sharp was eyeing sales of its liquid crystal display module plants, adding that the firm may a
World BusinessAug. 12, 2012
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OECD chief backs ECB’s bond-buying policy
The head of the OECD, Angel Gurria said he supports the European Central Bank’s plan to buy sovereign bonds of eurozone nations, in an interview published on Saturday.“The ECB president Mario Draghi has clearly stated how the ECB can help to reduce the EU debt crisis by buying bonds, and I support this policy,” the secretary general of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development said.“The signal to the markets was clear: speculators will lose their bets against the euro because the
World BusinessAug. 12, 2012
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German minister disappointed by Greek reform effort
BERLIN (AFP) ― German Economy Minister Philipp Roesler expressed disappointment with the efforts of debt-wracked Greece to implement necessary reforms, in an interview with the weekly magazine Focus.“I’ve lost my illusions,” said Roesler, who is also vice chancellor and leads the pro-business Free Democrats in Germany’s ruling coalition.“I proposed with German businesses a whole series of support measures for the Greek government. The Greeks have hardly responded to our offers,” he told Focus ac
World BusinessAug. 12, 2012
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Greece aims to raise $3.8b in T-bills
ATHENS (AFP) ― Greece will try to raise 3.125 billion euros ($3.8 billion) in an auction of three-month treasury bills this week to try to avoid a looming cash crunch, a finance ministry official said on Friday.“This is to cover the country’s current needs and avoid finding ourselves in a dead-end,” the official said as the government finds itself in great need of cash to pay salaries and pensions and faces redeeming a 3.2-billion-euro bond held by the European Central Bank on Aug. 20.While Gree
World BusinessAug. 12, 2012
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Castro to celebrate 86th birthday out of limelight
HAVANA (AFP) ― Fidel Castro, who led Cuba for a half century and became known worldwide for decades of Cold War-era clashing with the United States, will celebrate his 86th birthday Monday far from the limelight.Officially, there are no plans to publicly honor the communist country’s one-time “commander-in-chief,” who tightly orchestrated public life there from January 1959 until he suffered a health crisis in 2006 and delegated his duties to his brother Raul Castro.On Monday, youth organization
World NewsAug. 12, 2012
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52 die in India as bus plunges into gorge
SHIMLA, India (AFP) ― At least 52 people were killed and 45 injured when a heavily overloaded bus plunged into a gorge Saturday in northern India, in one of the worst road accidents in the country in recent years.The bus, which was carrying over 100 passengers ― many of them on the roof ― veered off the road in a sparsely populated and hilly area of the state of Himachal Pradesh.“Fifty-two people have been killed and 45 injured in the accident,” Sunil Chaudhary, district deputy commissioner, tol
World NewsAug. 12, 2012
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Rebels carve out large enclave in north Syria
AZAZ, Syria (AP) ― Residents of this north Syrian border town like to snap photos of their children atop the tank parked downtown, one of more than a dozen captured or destroyed by rebels in the battles last month that “liberated” the area from President Bashar Assad’s army.Across the street in air-conditioned offices once occupied by Assad’s Baath party, a new political order is emerging. Local rebels have formed committees to fix power lines, fire up bakeries and staff the nearby border crossi
World NewsAug. 12, 2012
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Wildfires rage near Spanish, Greek world heritage sites
MADRID (AFP) ― Wildfires raged Saturday on Spain’s Canary Islands, as hundreds of firefighters also battled a blaze near Greece’s Mount Athos, a World Heritage site housing an ancient monastic community.Hundreds of hectares were in flames in Spain as a pitiless heatwave showed no signs of relenting after the most devastating fires of the decade had been nearly tamed before re-erupting on La Gomera in the Canaries.Forest fires that broke out a week ago have already ravaged some 3,000 hectares of
World NewsAug. 12, 2012
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Disease alert in aftermath of Philippine floods
MANILA (AFP) ― Emergency relief officials and doctors deployed to flood devastated communities in the Philippines Sunday to prevent outbreaks of disease as the death toll jumped to 85.While floods have gone down significantly around the capital Manila, many areas in nearby provinces remained inundated as overflowing dams continued to release water, the national disaster coordinating agency said.“As the waters receded they left behind clogged pipelines and trash everywhere. Sanitation has emerged
World NewsAug. 12, 2012
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Ryan pick sets clear November choice
WASHINGTON (AP) ― Mitt Romney’s pick of Rep. Paul Ryan for the Republican presidential ticket brings clarity to the stark election-year choice for voters ― the competing Democratic and Republican visions about the size and role of the federal government in Americans’ lives.Ryan is synonymous with his revolutionary budget that slashes spending for safety-net programs for the poor, remakes the Medicare health care program for the elderly, and cuts personal and corporate taxes while pushing the def
World NewsAug. 12, 2012
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Unique dime sells for $1.84m
A unique dime minted in 1873 in Carson City, Nev., sold at auction in Philadelphia for considerably more than its face value -- $1.84 million.The “No Arrows” dime went to an anonymous buyer in the auction at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, KYW News Radio reported. It was described as the world‘s most valuable dime. Coin Update News said the dime was probably sent to Philadelphia for assay and was supposed to be melted down along with others in the series because the weight of
World NewsAug. 12, 2012
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Bear family consumes 100 cans of beer
A mama bear and her three cubs are suspected of breaking into a cabin in northern Norway and knocking back more than 100 cans of beer, officials said.“They had a hell of a party in there,” cabin owner Even Borthen Nilsen told NRK. “The cabin has the stench of a right old piss up, trash and bears.”The bear family is believed to have ripped a wall off of the cabin to gain entry, The Local.no reported.“The entire cabin was destroyed,” Nilsen told the local Finnmarken.no daily.“The beds and all kitc
World NewsAug. 12, 2012