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'Super Rich in Korea' will leave viewers appreciating Korea more: producers
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Probe of first lady on Dior bag allegations set to begin
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Top prosecutor pledges 'speedy, strict' probe into first lady's luxury bag allegations
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'Queen of Tears' riding high on Netflix chart
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With Indonesia unable to pay full share, what’s next for KF-21 fighter project?
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[KH Explains] Can tech firms' AI alliances take on Nvidia?
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Speaker floats dual citizenship as solution to falling births
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[Grace Kao, Meera Choi] Has money displaced romance on dates?
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Local filmmakers criticize ‘The Roundup: Punishment’ monopoly of screens
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Police seek arrest warrant for med student who killed girlfriend
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Pena Nieto claims victory in Mexico presidential vote
MEXICO CITY (AFP) -- Enrique Pena Nieto, the youthful candidate of the party that governed Mexico for decades, claimed victory late Sunday in the country‘s presidential election.The candidate for the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) cited the first official results announced by the independent Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) as proof that he won.The results showed Pena Nieto with 38 percent of the vote against 31-32 percent for his nearest rival, leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador from
July 2, 2012
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50 dollars for puking in taxi
A “vomit charge” introduced by Chicago city government took effect on Sunday.Under the rule, taxi drivers can ask customers who vomit in their cabs for $50.“In a lot of ways, it’s empowering the driver to say there is a consequence to puking all over their cabs,” said a spokeswoman for the city’s Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection.Although the rule is not part of a police ticke
July 2, 2012
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Dozens quit Japan's ruling party in blow to P.M.
A powerful member of Japan's ruling party and dozens of his followers have decided to quit the group and will likely form their own rival bloc, dealing a blow to Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda.A party official says Ichiro Ozawa and about 50 of his allies submitted their resignations from the Democratic Party of Japan on Monday. That is not enough to immediately end the ruling party's majority in th
July 2, 2012
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S.C. woman sentenced to read Bible
A South Carolina judge sentenced a woman to read the Bible as part of her sentence for severely injuring two men in a drunken driving accident.Circuit Court Judge Michael Nettles sentenced Cassandra Belle Tolley of Rock Hill to eight years in jail followed by five years of probation and substance abuse counseling, as well as reading the book of Job in the Old Testament and writing a summary, The R
July 2, 2012
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Pena Nieto wins Mexico presidential vote: exit polls
Enrique Pena Nieto, the youthful candidate of the party that governed Mexico for decades, won a resounding victory Sunday in the country's presidential election, exit polls showed.The win, when confirmed, will mark a stunning comeback for Pena Nieto's center-left Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which ruled for seven decades until 2000 through a mixture of patronage and selective repressio
July 2, 2012
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Taiwan tea all about passion and profit
TAIPEI (AFP) ― For decades, Lin Tsai-pan has tended his tea fields in the misty green hills of central Taiwan with a devotion bordering on obsession. It is not just a job. It is a passion and a question of honor.It is exactly 30 years since he first won a prize for his oolong leaves at a prestigious contest held by Luku Farmers’ Association in Nantou county, 20 years since his second prize, and 10 years since his third ― and so far last. “I feel I have a good chance of creating another miracle t
July 1, 2012
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Former Israeli P.M. Shamir dies at 96
JERUSALEM (AP) ― Former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who clung throughout his life to the belief that Israel should hang on to territory and never trust an Arab regime, has died. He was 96. Israeli media said Shamir had suffered from Alzheimer’s for years and died after a long illness Saturday at a nursing home in the town of Herzliya, north of Tel Aviv. In his younger days, Shamir served as a Jewish underground leader who fought the British as well as Arab militias before Israel’s cre
July 1, 2012
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Japan readies nuclear reactor as protests mount
TOKYO (AFP) -- Japan prepared to bring nuclear power back online by reactivating one of its idled reactors on Sunday, defying growing public protests since last year’s meltdowns at Fukushima.Hundreds of protesters blocked the road to the front gate of the Oi plant in western Japan, according to media reports, with work scheduled to begin at 9:00 p.m. to remove rods that have stopped nuclear fission in the reactor.The country has been operating without nuclear power since early May when the last
July 1, 2012
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Egypt’s elected president begins struggle for power
CAIRO (AP) ― Islamist Mohammed Morsi became Egypt’s first freely elected president on Saturday, launching his four-year term with a potentially dangerous quest to wrest back from the military the full authority of his office. The outcome of the impending battle between Egypt’s first civilian president and its powerful generals will redraw the country’s political landscape after 60 years of de facto military rule. If Morsi succeeds, the Muslim Brotherhood will likely be emboldened to press ahead
July 1, 2012
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Syria conference leaves open Assad question
GENEVA (AP) ― An international conference on Saturday accepted a U.N.-brokered peace plan that calls for the creation of a transitional government in Syria, but at Russia’s insistence the compromise agreement left the door open to Syria’s president being part of it. The U.S. backed away from insisting that the plan should explicitly call for President Bashar Assad to have no role in a new Syrian government, hoping the concession would encourage Russia to put greater pressure on its longtime ally
July 1, 2012
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Paraguay out of Mercosur
MENDOZA, Argentina (AP) ― The Mercosur trade bloc suspended Paraguay’s membership on Friday for having impeached and ousted its president but will not slap economic sanctions on the poor, landlocked country.The South American group also announced that Venezuela will become a full member starting July 31, a move that will link the region’s most powerful agricultural and energy markets.Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo was impeached by the country’s Congress a week ago in a fast-track trial trigg
July 1, 2012
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King remembered as forgiving man
LOS ANGELES (AP) ― Rodney King was remembered in Los Angeles on Saturday as a forgiving man who bore the scars of his infamous beating with dignity.The Rev. Al Sharpton, who delivered the eulogy at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills, said before the funeral that King never showed bitterness to the officers who beat him.“People should not be judged by the mistakes that they make, but by how they rise above them,” Sharpton said outside the Hall of Freedom at the sprawling cemetery grounds. “Rodney had ri
July 1, 2012
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New Hong Kong leader takes office
HONG KONG (AP) ― Hong Kong’s new Beijing-backed leader was sworn in on Sunday amid rising public discontent over widening inequality and lack of full democracy in the semiautonomous southern Chinese financial center.Tens of thousands of people are expected to take to the streets later in the day in an annual protest that is an occasion for ordinary people to air their grievances over a range of issues.Leung Chun-ying took office in a morning ceremony overseen by Chinese President Hu Jintao, beco
July 1, 2012
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Armed boy, 9, steals electric car
The child in the photograph is not related to the story. (MCT)A Swedish company said a 9-year-old armed with what was believed to be an air gun stole an electric car and drove around for about 10 minutes before crashing.Jan Jentzell of Poseidon, the property management company that owns the car, said the boy waved the realistic-looking gun at passersby who saw him unsuccessfully attempting to brea
July 1, 2012
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World powers agree Syria deal, U.S. eyes post-Assad regime
World powers on Saturday agreed a plan for a transition in Syria that could include current regime members, but the West did not see any role for President Bashar Assad in a new unity government.Russia and China insisted that Syrians must decide how the transition should be carried out rather than allow others to dictate their fate, as the two powers signed up to the final agreement that did not m
July 1, 2012
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Chimps attack American at South Africa sanctuary
Chimpanzees sit at the Chimp Eden rehabilitation center near Nelspruit, South Africa, where a man was brutally attacked by two chimpanzees on Thursday. (AP-Yonhap News)Chimpanzees at a sanctuary founded by famed primatologist Jane Goodall pulled a Texas graduate student into their fenced-off enclosure, dragging him nearly a half-mile and biting his ear and hands. Andrew F. Oberle was giving a lect
June 30, 2012
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50 dead, 42 missing from mudslides in China
China's Civil Affairs Ministry says mudslides caused by heavy rains have killed 50 and left another 42 missing.The national agency said in an online statement Friday that storms have ravaged 11 provinces and regions -- mainly in south China -- since June 20 and triggered the deadly mudslides.The ministry says about 440,000 people have been relocated and that tens of thousands of homes are severely
June 30, 2012
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Arsonist dies in possible suicide in court
Investigators were trying to determine Friday if a man who collapsed in a Phoenix courtroom moments after being convicted of arson took his own life.Michael Marin, 53, died Thursday soon after paramedics rushed him from the courtroom, The Arizona Republic reported.A jury found Marin guilty Thursday of setting his mansion in the Biltmore Estates neighborhood in Phoenix on fire in 2009. A few minute
June 30, 2012
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'Hero' who rescued baby on tracks gets job
An official at the New York company that hired a man who rescued a baby from Brooklyn subway tracks says the company is honored to employ the "hero."Delroy Simmonds, who rescued 9-month-old David Zamara Monday, had been unemployed for more than a year before accepting the offer Wednesday from ABM Janitorial services at Kennedy Airport, the New York Daily News reported."It says a lot about his char
June 30, 2012
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Web site sells anti-infidelity ring
A Vancouver-based Web site is marketing an anti-infidelity wedding ring that leaves the imprint of the words "I'm married" on the wearer's finger.TheCheeky.com is selling the titanium bands, which have the letters carved into the inside of the wedding band to leave an imprint on the wearer's finger, for $550, the New York Daily News reported Friday."With Arnold, Tiger and two-timing IMF guy in min
June 30, 2012