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Debate rages over ‘overly fatty’ samgyeopsal
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40 flights canceled on Jeju Island due to bad weather
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[Weekender] Korean psyche untangled: Musok
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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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Gov't appears to shelve punitive measures against mass walkout by doctors
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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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From fake prostitution ring to nonexistent robber, prank calls hamper police
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S. Korea, China, Japan in talks to hold trilateral summit May 26-27: official
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Govt. asks hospitals to mitigate impact of medical professors' absence
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U.N. observers caught up in Syrian violence
BEIRUT (AP) ― The U.N.’s observer mission in Syria was caught up in a burst of violence Tuesday captured on video, with a roadside bomb damaging its cars just minutes after witnesses said regime forces gunned down mourners at a funeral procession nearby.The mission confirmed its vehicles were hit by a bomb shortly after they met with Syrian rebels, and said there were no injuries.It was not clear how close the observers were to the funeral shootings, but if confirmed, a regime attack on a civili
May 16, 2012
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Anti-al-Qaida sweep kills 53 across S. Yemen
ADEN (AFP) ― Yemen’s military on Tuesday ramped up its offensive against al-Qaida in the country’s restive south, launching ground and air assaults that reportedly killed at least 53 people, including 12 civilians.The town of Jaar in Abyan province was pounded by air strikes which killed13 extremists and 12 civilians, while battles raged in Loder, another Abyan town the jihadists have been wrestling to control, leaving another 12 al-Qaida fighters dead, according to witnesses and tribal leaders.
May 16, 2012
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Bosnian victim eager to see Mladic in court
SARAJEVO (AP) ― She remembers Ratko Mladic looking straight into her eyes and promising to spare the other children. A soldier had just killed a 3-year-old who was crying too loud. She remembers, too, the arrogant swagger as he barked murderous orders to his troops that showed his promise to be a lie.For Munira Subasic, these are the two sides of the Bosnian Serb general who goes on trial Wednesday on genocide charges: the sly deceiver and the ranting bully.Now Subasic wants to see the man who c
May 16, 2012
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China dissident tells U.S. of abuse of family
WASHINGTON (AFP) ― A dissident at the center of a standoff between Beijing and Washington on Tuesday accused Chinese authorities of a pattern of abuse against his family as he again took his case to U.S. lawmakers.Chen Guangcheng, a blind self-taught lawyer who last month dramatically escaped house arrest for the safety of the U.S. embassy, telephoned a hearing of the U.S. Congress for the second time this month from a hospital bed in Beijing.Unlike in the previous hearing, Chen did not voice co
May 16, 2012
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Sexy women's bodies in ads seen as objects
Both men and women see images of sexy women's bodies in advertisements as objects, but they see sexy-looking men as people, Belgian researchers found.(Yonhap News)"What's unclear is, we don't actually know whether people at a basic level recognize sexualized females or sexualized males as objects," Philippe Bernard of Universite libre de Bruxelles in Belgium said in a statement.Study co-authors Be
May 16, 2012
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Woman, 101, fights off thief
Prosecutors in Sweden said an attempted thief who was foiled by a 101-year-old woman wielding a stick has been charged with aggravated theft and fraud.Police said the 44-year-old man, who allegedly stole from 16 households of elderly people in December and January by posing as a police officer, entered Barbro Bostrom's Umea home in January, claimed to be an officer and roughly pushed his way into
May 16, 2012
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Police: Man asked to be shot
Police in New York state said they arrested a man accused of agreeing to do a favor for a friend and shoot him in the leg.State Police said Shawn Mossow, 25, of Norfolk allegedly shot a 24-year-old friend in the leg with a .22-caliber rifle Sunday in Stockholm because the other man was curious about what it would feel like and asked him to take the shot, the Potsdam, N.Y., publication North County
May 16, 2012
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China slams Britain after Cameron meets Dalai Lama
BEIJING (AP) _ China criticized British Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday for meeting with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, saying it amounts to support for Tibet's independence from Chinese rule.The British government ignored Beijing's objections in going ahead with Monday's meeting in London, and doing so "hurts the feelings of the Chinese people," meddles in China's aff
May 15, 2012
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Strauss-Kahn seeks at least $1 million from maid
NEW YORK (AFP) - Disgraced ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is countersuing the New York hotel maid whose accusation of sexual assault last year brought down his glittering political career.The countersuit, signed Monday and made public Tuesday, seeks at least $1 million plus undetermined punitive damages from the maid, Nafissatou Diallo, who is accused of "falsely and maliciously asserting" sh
May 15, 2012
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NATO invites Pakistan to Chicago summit
ISLAMABAD (AFP) -- NATO on Tuesday invited the Pakistani president to next week's summit in Chicago, as Islamabad looked poised to end a nearly six-month blockade on NATO supplies for Afghanistan, officials said.NATO spokeswoman Oana Lungescu said President Asif Ali Zardari would take part in the second day of the summit which will focus on Afghanistan, where coalition combat troops are planning t
May 15, 2012
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UK civil servants allowed to work from home
LONDON (AFP) - Britain's government on Tuesday defended plans to let civil servants work from home during the London Olympics, insisting staff will not use it as an opportunity to shirk their normal duties.From July 21 -- six days before the opening ceremony -- until the Paralympic closing ceremony on September 9, ministries will allow staff to work from home to avoid the widely anticipated bottle
May 15, 2012
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Man sets himself on fire outside Breivik trial: Oslo police
OSLO (AFP) - A man set himself on fire on Tuesday outside the Oslo courthouse where Anders Behring Breivik is on trial for killing 77 people in twin attacks last July, police said.The man, whose identity was not revealed, suffered serious injuries, Norwegian police said."The man crossed the street and set himself on fire," Kjell Jan Kvarme, head of police security operations outside the courthouse
May 15, 2012
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Israel braces for unrest ahead of ‘disaster’ day
Palestinian prisoners reached a deal with Israel to end a mass hunger strike in exchange for better conditionsJERUSALEM (AFP) ― Israel is bracing for possible unrest on Tuesday, when Palestinians commemorate the exodus of hundreds of thousands of their kin following the foundation of the Jewish state in 1948.Nakba Day, marked annually on May 15, is normally marked by protest, and often by clashes with Israelis in the Palestinian territories.“We are coordinating with the military and border polic
May 15, 2012
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Hollande sworn in as French president amid euro turmoil
PARIS (AFP) -- Socialist leader Francois Hollande was sworn in as president of France on Tuesday at a solemn ceremony overshadowed by the catastrophic debt crisis threatening to unravel the eurozone.After brief ceremonies in Paris, the 57-year-old career politician was to dash to Berlin to confront Chancellor Angela Merkel over their very different visions as to how to save the single currency bloc.“Power will be exercised at the summit of the state with dignity and simplicity,” Hollande declare
May 15, 2012
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Heavy snow surprises Bosnians after a hot weekend
SARAJEVO (AP) ― Sunbathing one day, snowstorm the next: Bosnians are getting whiplash from the latest crazy weather to hit the Balkans. Weeks after Bosnians had stashed away their winter clothes and their memories of last winter’s unbearably heavy snow, residents had to drag out the shovels Monday after waking up to a blanket of snow in the middle of an otherwise unusually hot May. Some 50 remote villages in a mountainous area near the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo lost power due to the snow. The
May 15, 2012
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Three astronauts blast off for ISS on Russian rocket
AIKONUR, Kazakhstan (AFP) ― Two Russians and an American on Tuesday blasted off for the International Space Station aboard a Soyuz-FG rocket from Russia’s Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin and American Joseph Acaba started their journey in the Russian Soyuz TMA-04M capsule under crystal clear skies from the Kazakh steppe to the space station, an AFP correspondent said.Their capsule was delivered into orbit as planned and all the crew were feeling good, mission co
May 15, 2012
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Obama on gay marriage: Right thing to do
NEW YORK (AP) ― President Barack Obama on Monday defended his view that gay couples should have the right to marry, saying that the country has never gone wrong when it “expanded rights and responsibilities to everybody.”“That doesn’t weaken families. That strengthens families,” he told gay and lesbian supporters and others at a fundraiser hosted by singer Ricky Martin and the LGBT Leadership Council. “It’s the right thing to do.”The remarks were his first to such an audience since he announced
May 15, 2012
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Teen arrested after homework left at crime scene
An 18-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of burglary after police say he left his homework at the crime scene.Police in Orem, Utah, say they tracked a USB drive found at the burglarized home to Dallas Naljahih. They say the computer hard drive contained his homework and was in a backpack abandoned in the backyard.A 75-year-old man and his wife reported their home had been burglarized early Sat
May 15, 2012
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Urine kills fish
Swimmers’ urine is killing the fish stocks in a German lake, according to a spokesperson from the local fishing association.The organization said phosphate in human urine is causing problems in Eichbaum Lake near Hamburg, Germany.Each swimmer is releasing an estimated pint of urine each time they urinate, which poisons the fish stocks. So far 500 dead fish have been found and the deaths look likely to continue. But some are blaming ice-skaters for the deaths, saying skaters are waking up the fis
May 15, 2012
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Bride, in wedding gown, stabbed to death
A woman in suburban Chicago was found stabbed to death in her bathtub, in the gown she wore at her wedding, officials said.Estrella Carrera, 26, was found in her home in Burbank, southwest of Chicago, Sunday afternoon, police said. She had apparently suffered stab wounds and was discovered in her unfilled bathtub, wearing her wedding gown, the Chicago Tribune reported Monday.Carrera was last seen
May 15, 2012