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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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Korean battery makers heave sigh of relief over 2-year IRA reprieve
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Top prosecutor pledges 'speedy, strict' probe into first lady's luxury bag allegations
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Over 80,000 millionaires, 20 billionaires in Seoul: report
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Indonesia’s KF-21 fighter jet deal cut back -- what’s next?
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[KH Explains] Can tech firms' AI alliances take on Nvidia?
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Police seek arrest warrant for med student who killed girlfriend
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Young Korean doctors seek plan B: cosmetic dermatology or overseas
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Local filmmakers criticize ‘The Roundup: Punishment’ monopoly of screens
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Officials delay announcing Egypt election winner
Officials postponed declaring a winner in Egypt's disputed election on Wednesday, sending political tensions soaring as the country awaited its first new president in three decades.Adding to the confusion and uncertainty were reports about the health of Hosni Mubarak, who is serving a life sentence for failing to stop the killing of protesters in the uprising that ousted him last year. At one poin
June 21, 2012
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WikiLeaks’ Assange seeks Ecuador asylum
LONDON (AFP) ― WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Tuesday walked into Ecuador’s embassy in London and applied for political asylum in a sensational bid to avoid extradition to Sweden over alleged sex crimes.The former computer hacker, who last week exhausted all his legal options in Britain to fight extradition, was holed up at the embassy in central London while Quito examined the request, officials said.Britain’s Foreign Office said Assange was “beyond the reach of the police” because he was
June 20, 2012
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Hamas militants fire rockets as Israel strikes kill 6
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories (AFP) -- The armed wing of Gaza‘s ruling Hamas movement on Tuesday said it fired 10 rockets at Israel in a rare show of force after three Israeli air strikes killed six Palestinians.The claim came shortly after Israel on Tuesday afternoon staged another air strike over Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, injuring two men on a motorcycle, one of them critically, medical officials said.Such fire by the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, which generally maintains a tacit tru
June 20, 2012
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Pakistan in talks for new P.M.
ISLAMABAD (AFP) ― Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari hoped Wednesday to nominate a new prime minister following a night of crisis talks after the Supreme Court disqualified Yousuf Raza Gilani for contempt.The move could ease uncertainty in a country that is increasingly trying U.S. patience over al-Qaida-linked havens, struggling with a Taliban insurgency and heading deeper towards a financial crisis that could force it back to the IMF.The court ruling effectively dissolved the cabinet and unl
June 20, 2012
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Chinese artist Ai Weiwei barred from court
BEIJING (AP) -- Police barred artist Ai Weiwei from attending the hearing of a lawsuit his company brought against Beijing tax authorities and blocked filming at the courthouse Wednesday as part of an intimidation campaign against the outspoken government critic.Ai told reporters that police the previous night had ordered him to stay home and steer clear of the courts. He said he agreed.Chinese authorities detained Ai for three months last year and his design company was ordered to pay 15 millio
June 20, 2012
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Obama reaches out ...to Hu on Syria
U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday lobbied President Hu Jintao of China, a veto-wielding permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, on efforts to end the bloodshed in Syria.China and Russia have frustrated the United States by blocking stronger U.N. sanctions and action against President Bashar al-Assad, and Obama has partly used the G20 summit in Mexico to push for a change in attitude.Obama told reporters at the start of the talks in the Mexican resort of Los Cabos that he wa
June 20, 2012
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Frenchman linked to China scandal arrested in Cambodia
PHNOM PENH (AFP) ― A French architect with ties to disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai has been arrested in Cambodia, the French embassy said Tuesday, in a new twist to China’s biggest political scandal in decades.Cambodian police said the arrest of Patrick Devillers was carried out with the cooperation of Beijing, which is seeking his extradition.“We’ve been informed by the Cambodian authorities of the arrest of our compatriot Mr. Devillers,” a French embassy spokeswoman told AFP.Officials we
June 20, 2012
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Iran, six powers fail to reach breakthrough
U.S., Israel still refusing to rule out air strikes against Iran’s nuclear programMOSCOW (AFP) ― Iran and world powers Tuesday failed to narrow differences over the Iranian nuclear drive after bruising talks in Moscow held amid threats of a crippling oil embargo or even military action against Tehran.However the Iranian negotiating team and the world powers led by EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton succeeded in keeping talks alive by agreeing a process for future meetings.The United States
June 20, 2012
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‘Canadian pyscho’ suspect pleads not guilty
MONTREAL (AFP) ― A suspect dubbed the ‘Canadian psycho’ pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to killing and dismembering a Chinese student in Montreal, in a case that has seized worldwide attention.Luka Rocco Magnotta pleaded not guilty to first degree murder and four other charges including committing indignities to a body, Crown Prosecutor Louis Bouthillier told reporters at the Montreal courthouse, where the suspect appeared via a video link.The slightly built 29-year-old wore a grey hooded sweatshi
June 20, 2012
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Suu Kyi speaks of family’s ‘sacrifice’ in Britain
OXFORD, England (AFP) ― Aung San Suu Kyi made an emotional return to Britain on her 67th birthday Tuesday, visiting her former home of Oxford and speaking of the “sacrifice” her family were forced to make.The Myanmar democracy icon was greeted at Oxford University, her alma mater, after taking part in a debate at the London School of Economics (LSE) and meeting the radio DJ she credits with giving her a lifeline during 24 years spent mainly under house arrest.She spent nearly 20 years in Oxford,
June 20, 2012
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Up to 27m people living in slavery: U.S.
WASHINGTON (AFP) ― Up to 27 million people are living in slavery around the world, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton estimated Tuesday as the U.S. unveiled its annual report into human trafficking.But the report showed that as governments become more aware of the issue, instigating tough new laws and programs to help victims, progress is being made in wiping out what it called the “scourge of trafficking.”“The end of legal slavery in the United States and in other countries around the worl
June 20, 2012
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Greece in reach of coalition deal to revise bailout
ATHENS (AFP) -- Greece on Wednesday was close to forming a coalition that will try to revise an unpopular EU-IMF bailout deal and pull the country out of a harrowing recession that has doomed its recovery efforts.After two months of political deadlock, the struggling eurozone member is under intense international pressure to get back on track with reforms promised for a bailout that has kept the economy on life support for the past two years.The International Monetary Fund is already pressing to
June 20, 2012
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CIA releases declassified Sept. 11 documents
Budgetary woes in the CIA unit that tracked Osama bin Laden prior to the deadly 2001 strikes against the U.S. led analysts to believe that catching the al-Qaida leader was unlikely, according to government records published Tuesday.Many of the newly released documents are cited in the Sept. Commission report, published in 2004. The documents, dated between 1992 and 2004 are heavily blacked out and
June 20, 2012
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Dog brings master loaves of bread
An Australian man says his golden retriever has been bringing him presents in the past few days -- 12 loaves of bread and two packages of muffins.Michael Shaw said he would like to know where the dog, Gillie, has been getting the baked goods, The Daily Telegraph of Sydney reported. Shaw lives in Theresa Park in a rural area southwest of Sydney and the nearest store is at least a 10-minute drive.Wh
June 20, 2012
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At least 40 killed as bus overturns in Haiti river
The government of Haiti says at least 40 people have drowned when a bus overturned in a rain-swollen river east of the southern city of Jeremie.A statement issued by the office of President Michel Martelly says about 60 people were on the bus when the driver attempted to cross the Glace River. Local Civil Protection officials have recovered the bodies of 40 people and are still searching the area. The statement said nine people were either rescued from the submerged bus or managed to swim to saf
June 20, 2012
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WikiLeaks founder Assange seeks Ecuador asylum
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Tuesday walked into Ecuador's embassy in London and applied for political asylum in a sensational bid to avoid extradition to Sweden over alleged sex crimes.The former computer hacker, who last week exhausted all his legal options in Britain to fight extradition, was holed up at the embassy in central London while Quito examined the request, officials said.Brita
June 20, 2012
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Egypt Mubarak on life support amid crisis
Egypt's Hosni Mubarak was being kept alive by life support after the 84-year-old ousted leader suffered a stroke in prison Tuesday, officials said, deepening the country's uncertainty just as a potentially explosive fight opened over who will succeed him, with both candidates claiming to have won last weekend's presidential election.The developments, which saw Mubarak moved out of prison to a mili
June 20, 2012
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Dragon baby boom in Big Apple
Chinese women flock to New York to have babies with U.S. citizenshipThe sky begins to brighten as Nancy Chen makes her way to JFK airport to pick up a mother-to-be who has made the long flight from China for a temporary stay in New York ― to give birth. Chen, who owns the New York Maternity Center, has been in the birthing business for five years. But the past few months have proved to be her busiest time ever, as the number of pregnant women from China seeking her services soars. The maternity
June 19, 2012
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Romanian P.M. may have plagiarized his Ph.D.: Nature
The science journal Nature reported claims on Monday that Romania’s Prime Minister Victor Ponta had plagiarised large parts of his 2003 Ph.D. thesis which he denied, hinting at a political plot against him.In a news article, Nature said it had seen documents compiled by an anonymous whistle-blower indicating that more than half of Ponta’s 432-page law thesis on the International Criminal Court, written in Romanian, “consists of duplicated text.”“Moreover, the thesis was republished with very min
June 19, 2012
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Nobel winner for medicine Knowles dies
ST. LOUIS (AP) ― William S. Knowles, a longtime chemist who shared the Nobel Prize for discoveries that led to a treatment for Parkinson’s disease and various other medicines, has died, his daughter said Monday. He was 95.Knowles died June 13. His daughter, Lesley McIntire, said he died of complications from ALS.Knowles retired in 1986 after 44 years working for St. Louis-based Monsanto Co. But it was 15 years later that he and two other scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for work that
June 19, 2012