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Marine Corps commander summoned by CIO for questioning on alleged influence-peddling case
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Debate rages over ‘overly fatty’ samgyeopsal
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[Weekender] Korean psyche untangled: Musok
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40 flights canceled on Jeju Island due to bad weather
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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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N. Korea slams US, other countries for seeking alternative to UN sanctions monitoring panel
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Pandemic left Korea more depressed than before: report
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From fake prostitution ring to nonexistent robber, prank calls hamper police
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Missing S. Korean traveler in Paris found safe after 2 weeks
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Defense chiefs of US, Australia, Japan decry NK-Russia military cooperation
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Gunmen kill 19 at Nigerian church service
LAGOS (AFP) ― Gunmen stormed an evangelical church in central Nigeria, cut the electricity and opened fire once the building was plunged into darkness, killing 19 people including the pastor, officials said Tuesday. Also in a fresh attack in the city of Okene, two soldiers were shot dead Tuesday by gunmen who fired on their patrol van, Kogi state police spokesman told AFP.“Two soldiers were shot dead today in an attack on their patrol van. We suspect that it was the handiwork of the hoodlums who
World NewsAug. 8, 2012
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Flooding brings chaos to Manila
MANILA (AFP) ― More than 800,000 people in and around the Philippine capital battled deadly floods Wednesday as more rain fell, with some slum dwellers stuck on shanty roofs and others wading through waist-deep water.Monsoon rains that have pounded Manila for more than a week eased slightly overnight, but meteorologists reported that 80 percent of the megacity was under water and the bad weather would likely persist throughout the day. “We can’t say the worst is over yet,” Gine Nievares, a hydro
World NewsAug. 8, 2012
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Romney tries to break Obama, Clinton ties
Republican launches new attack on Obama’s welfare lawWASHINGTON (AP) ― Republican challenger Mitt Romney tried Tuesday to drive a wedge between President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton, who has taken an increasingly prominent role in Obama’s re-election effort with three months left until the election.A new Romney campaign ad tries to cast Obama as a big-government liberal, accusing him of dismantling the groundbreaking welfare reforms Clinton put in place.The Democrats recently
World NewsAug. 8, 2012
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Defecting Syrian P.M. arrives in Jordan after hiding
Syria's prime minister completed his defection by crossing into Jordan at dawn Wednesday after two days of hiding inside his homeland, according to Jordanian officials and a spokesman for the rebel Free Syrian Army.They described an operation that involved deceiving the news media into reporting that Prime Minister Riad Hijab had already made it to Jordan so that the Syrians would stop looking for
World NewsAug. 8, 2012
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Gangsters kill sleeping homeless person by setting fire
Police found charred human remains in a supermarket parking lot on Tuesday in the U.K., according to news reports. The remains reportedly belonged to a homeless person who slept in the car park. Sources said a CCTV caught three gangsters pouring petrol onto the sleeping person and set him or her alight. The charred remains were so badly burnt that authorities are finding it difficult to find out the sex or age, the police said. Many internet users said they were shocked by the news. “How terribl
World NewsAug. 8, 2012
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Soccer players strip off for sponsors
Players of a British soccer club showed some skin to attract a new shirt sponsor.The manager of Yeovil Town F.C. in the League One ordered his players to take an annual team picture, topless.“If we haven’t got a shirt sponsor then we can’t wear the shirt,” Gary Johnson, the club manager, said.The previous sponsor decided to end its deal with the club and the team has yet to secure another, so Johnson convinced players to join the stunt.“There’s been a lot of interest but we need to make sure the
World NewsAug. 8, 2012
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Syria's Assad returns to public eye with ally Iran
Syrian President Bashar Assad made his first appearance on state TV in nearly three weeks Tuesday in a show of solidarity with a senior Iranian envoy, even as the U.S. urged stepped up international planning for the regime's collapse.The visit to Damascus by the highest-ranking Iranian official since the uprising began coincided with a warning by an increasingly agitated Tehran that it holds the U
World NewsAug. 8, 2012
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Syrian P.M. defects, accuses Assad of genocide
DAMASCUS (AFP) ― Syria’s prime minister joined the rebels and accused President Bashar al-Assad of carrying out “genocide” against his own people, prompting Washington to say the regime was “crumbling.”The defection came as government forces were poised to launch an assault on rebels in Aleppo, the commercial capital, and as a monitoring group said at least 137 people were killed in violence across the country.Riad Hijab, a leading Sunni Muslim in Assad’s minority Alawite-dominated regime, becam
World NewsAug. 7, 2012
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Thai government seeks Muslim diplomats in handling insurgency
In the wake of a spike in violence in south Thailand, ambassadors from Muslim countries have been invited to a meeting today to offer ideas to handle the situation, Foreign Minister Surapong Towichukchaikul said yesterday.He added that the conclusion of this meeting will be presented at a forum between the government and the Organisation of the Islamic Conference tomorrow.This is the first time that Muslim diplomats have been invited to a meeting by this government, which has been in power for a
World NewsAug. 7, 2012
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Japan government pledges safer energy mix
Amid growing aversion to the use of nuclear energy in Japan, officials calling for the elimination of nuclear arms at anniversary rites in Hiroshima have been obliged to also call for a safer energy policy for the country.The city was devastated by a US atomic bomb on Aug. 6, 1945, in the final days of World War II, with Nagasaki the second city to be hit three days later.The Hiroshima event yesterday comes nearly 11/2 years after a quake and tsunami triggered a nuclear plant disaster in Fukushi
World NewsAug. 7, 2012
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Westerners try new tool for friendship with North
While London hosts the Olympics this summer, a different competition will get underway on the other side of the globe. But this series has no flaming torches, gold medals or even referees. The game is Ultimate Frisbee, and the venue is the North Korean capital Pyongyang. The “Peace Tournament” is set for Aug. 11 and is sponsored by Beijing-based Koryo Tours. The rules of Ultimate, as the sport is known for short, are a mix-match of basketball and American style football, in which one team attemp
World NewsAug. 7, 2012
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Lenovo introduces lighter, quicker ThinkPad laptop
BEIJING (AP) ― Lenovo unveiled a lighter, quicker ThinkPad notebook computer on Monday to appeal to customers who like the convenience of tablets and smartphones.The ThinkPad X1 Carbon will go on sale later this month, the Chinese computer maker said.Lenovo Group acquired the ThinkPad brand with IBM Corp.’s personal computer unit in 2005. Lenovo passed Dell Inc. last year to become the second-largest PC manufacturer after Hewlett-Packard Co.The latest ThinkPad has third-generation wireless conne
World BusinessAug. 7, 2012
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Best Buy founder offers to buy out company
S&P cuts company’s credit rating from the lowest investment grade to junk-gradeNEW YORK (AP) ― Best Buy’s co-founder is looking to make a buy of his own, offering to take the electronics seller private only months after leaving as the company’s chairman.Best Buy Co. said it would consider the offer but called it “highly conditional.” And analysts are skeptical that former Chairman Richard Schulze’s opening offer of $24 to $26 per share would get a deal done and that it could be tricky to line up
World BusinessAug. 7, 2012
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ECB holds back on bond purchases
FRANKFURT (AFP) ― The European Central Bank has again opted not to resume its program of buying up bonds of eurozone nations, data suggested Monday, as speculation mounted that the ECB might do so again soon.According to data published on the bank’s website, it did not buy any sovereign bonds last week for the 20th week in a row.The ECB launched its bond-buying blitz under the Securities Market Program in 2010 to help debt-wracked eurozone countries that were finding it difficult to drum up fina
World BusinessAug. 7, 2012
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Former NYSE chairman John Phelan dies at age 81
PORTLAND, Oregon (AP) ― John J. Phelan Jr., the former New York Stock Exchange chairman credited with managing the chaos of the “Black Monday” market crash of 1987, died Saturday. He was 81.The NYSE Euronext and Phelan’s family confirmed his death Monday. The cause of death was not disclosed.A former Marine who worked as trader for years before leading the exchange, Phelan was best known for keeping the markets open following the historic crash on Oct. 19, 1987. That day, stocks suffered what is
World NewsAug. 7, 2012
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Clinton lunches with Mandela in rare visit at his home
QUNU, South Africa (AFP) ― U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met Nelson Mandela Monday at his rural homestead where South Africa’s first black president is living out retirement far from the public eye.Her private lunch with the Nobel Peace Prize winner, the first event of her South African visit, is an honor that few receive as Mandela’s health has become more fragile with age. Mandela did not speak but smiled as he and his wife Graca Machel posed for a picture with Clinton inside his hom
World NewsAug. 7, 2012
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Madonna asks for leniency at Russian rockers trial
MOSCOW (AP) ― Madonna voiced hope Monday that three feminist Russian rockers on trial for performing a “punk prayer” against Vladimir Putin will be released soon.“Obviously I believe in freedom of speech and I’m against censorship, so I hope that the judge is lenient with them and that they are freed soon,” the pop star told the Associated Press during a concert tour of Russia.Two weeks before Putin’s return to the presidency in a March election, five members of the Pussy Riot band staged their
World NewsAug. 7, 2012
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Spain’s Ortega overtakes Buffett as world’s 3rd-richest
Amancio Ortega, the septuagenarian Spaniard who founded retailer Inditex SA, Monday bumped Warren Buffett from his perch as the world’s third-richest person. The 76-year-old tycoon’s fortune rose $1.6 billion to $46.6 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, as shares of Inditex gained 3.8 percent to close at a record. That places the owner of the Zara clothing chain above the Berkshire Hathaway Inc. chairman, who has a net worth of $45.7 billion and had ranked No. 3 on the index
World NewsAug. 7, 2012
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Floods bring Philippine capital to standstill
MANILA (AFP) -- At least five people were killed and seven were missing as torrential rains brought the Philippine capital to a standstill Tuesday, with floodwaters covering half the sprawling city, officials said.More than 20,000 people fled their homes due to the rising waters while a deadly landslide buried four houses in a Manila suburb, police said.As local television flashed live footage of rampaging rivers carrying off houses and Manila residents marooned on their rooftops, President Beni
World NewsAug. 7, 2012
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NASA’s Mars rover sends back stunning pictures
PASADENA, California (AFP) ― After its first day on Mars, NASA’s rover Monday sent back to Earth stunning images of its crater landing site and the mountain it aims to climb in the hunt for signs of life.The landing of the $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory and nuclear-powered robot Curiosity late Sunday opened a new chapter in the history of interplanetary exploration by touching down on the Red Planet.The one-ton mobile lab is the largest rover ever sent to Mars, and its high-speed landing w
World NewsAug. 7, 2012