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[Exclusive] Korean military set to ban iPhones over 'security' concerns
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Korean, Romanian leaders discuss defense tech, nuclear energy
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[Graphic News] 77% of young Koreans still financially dependent
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S. Korea calls on Japan to confront history amid Yasukuni Shrine visit
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Yoon’s jailed mother-in-law excluded from latest parole list
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Hybe and Min Hee-jin, CEO of Hybe sublabel Ador, lock horns
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[Pressure points] Leggings in public: Fashion statement or social faux pas?
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Yoo Jae-suk, Yoo Yeon-seok team up in 'Whenever Possible'
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Aging population to drive down Korea's housing prices from 2040: experts
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North Korea holds drills simulating nuclear counterattack against enemy
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Plane with 21 crashes in Nepal; 8 survive
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) -- A plane carrying 21 people crashed Monday while trying to land in Nepal's northern Himalayas, killing at least nine, authorities said. Eight survivors in critical condition were flown by helicopter to a hospital. The plane hit a mountain while it was turning around to land at Jomsom Airport, said Laxmi Raj Sharma, chief government administrator in the area. The wrecked
May 14, 2012
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Egypt funeral turns happy after dead man awakes
The funeral of a 28 year-old waiter in southern Egypt turned into a celebration when he woke up after being declared dead.Hospital officials had pronounced dead Hamdi Hafez al-Nubi, who came from the village of Naga al-Simman in the southern province of Luxor, after he suffered a heart attack while working.His family says grieving relatives took him home and, according to Islamic tradition, washed
May 14, 2012
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Father and son drown in boating accident
A father and 3-year-old son drowned after their boat capsized on the River Avon in Barford, England, while two other children survived, officials said.The man, identified by locals as Julian Mynott, had taken his son Freddie and daughter Florence and another boy out in a rowing boat Saturday when it capsized on a weir just after 5:30 p.m., The Daily Telegraph reported.Florence and the other boy we
May 14, 2012
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49 headless bodies dumped on north Mexico highway
Forty-nine bodies with their heads, hands and feet hacked off were found Sunday dumped on a northern Mexico highway leading to the Texas border in what appeared to be the latest carnage in an escalating war between Mexico's two dominant drug cartels.Local and federal authorities discovered the bodies before dawn lying in a pool of blood at the entrance to the desert town of San Juan, on a highway
May 14, 2012
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U.S. lawmakers push for tactical nukes in S. Korea
WASHINGTON (Yonhap News) ― A U.S. congressional committee is pressuring the Obama administration to redeploy tactical nuclear weapons on the Korean Peninsula.The House Armed Services Committee, dominated by Republicans, approved an amendment to the fiscal 2013 national defense authorization bill Thursday that calls for the re-introduction of the sensitive weapons to South Korea, according to Foreign Policy magazine.It also would require Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defense Secretary Le
May 13, 2012
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Legendary car designer, racer Shelby dies at 89
DALLAS (AP) ― Decades after a heart condition forced him to retire from racing, Carroll Shelby still loved to drive muscle cars. Well into his 80s, the legendary car designer spent hours testing his last Mustang Shelby GT500, which sets a new record for horsepower and hits a top speed of more than 200 mph.A one-time chicken farmer, Shelby had more than a half-dozen successful careers during his long life: champion race car driver, racing team owner, automotive consultant and safari tour operator
May 13, 2012
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Facebook Co-Founder may gain choosing Singapore over U.S.
Eduardo Saverin, the billionaire co- founder of Facebook Inc. (FB), renounced his U.S. citizenship before an initial public offering that values the social network at as much as $96 billion, a move that may reduce his tax bill. Facebook plans to raise as much as $11.8 billion through the IPO, the biggest in history for an Internet company. Saverin’s stake is about 4 percent, according to the website whoownsfacebook.com. At the high end of the proposed IPO market capitalization, that would be wor
May 13, 2012
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Palestinians say hunger strike breakthrough close
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories (AFP) ― Palestinian officials said Saturday they expected a breakthrough soon on efforts to end a mass hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners in Israel, some of them close to death.But Amin Shoman, head of a monitoring group of Palestinian political factions, said that if Israel gave a negative response, prisoners would intensify their fast and break off further talks with prison authorities.“The prisoners will stop taking vitamins and water and stop negotiation
May 13, 2012
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Men in Afghan police uniforms kill 2 NATO troops
KABUL (AP) ― Men wearing Afghan police uniforms shot dead two NATO service members Saturday in southern Afghanistan, authorities said, the latest in a string of attacks on international troops by Afghan security forces or militants disguised as police.Two other coalition service members also died Saturday in Afghanistan, one in an insurgent attack and another of non-battle related injuries.There were conflicting reports about the shooting in Helmand province.Fareed Ahmad, a spokesman for the Hel
May 13, 2012
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Algerian regime tightens grip despite Arab Spring
ALGIERS (AFP) ― Algeria’s ruling party tightened its grip on power in an election that bucked the regional trend of Islamists gaining strength since the Arab Spring, according to results Friday that drew accusations of fraud.President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s National Liberation Front won 220 out of 462 seats up for grabs in Thursday’s election, improving on its share in the outgoing national assembly.The seven Islamist parties contesting the polls could only manage a combined 59 seats, a major se
May 13, 2012
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Syria violence kills 15 as U.N. mission grows
DAMASCUS (AFP) ― Violence in Syria cost at least 15 lives on Saturday as a U.N. force to oversee a truce neared half its planned strength, monitors said.In Idlib province, a stronghold near the Turkish border of rebels fighting President Bahar al-Assad’s regime, security force gunfire killed a man and a woman during a series of raids, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.Another civilian and a child were killed in pre-dawn shelling in central Hama province, the Britain-based watchdog sai
May 13, 2012
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Indonesia jet crash bodies sent for identification
CIJERUK, Indonesia (AFP) ― Body bags containing the victims of a Russian jet crash arrived in the Indonesian capital Saturday as Russian investigators flew in to probe how the new aircraft smashed into the side of a dormant volcano.Rescuers said the bodies of those who perished when Sukhoi’s new Superjet 100 hit Mount Salak in western Java on Wednesday, killing all on board, were badly dismembered and had been placed in 16 body bags.“Today we did the evacuation by land and air, and we brought al
May 13, 2012
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Putin to visit China after skipping U.S.
MOSCOW (AFP) ― Russia’s newly sworn-in President Vladimir Putin will make what could be his first foreign trip to China next month after deciding to skip the G8 summit in the U.S., a diplomatic source said on Friday.Putin’s June 5-7 visit will include talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao and attendance at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit, the source told Russian news agencies.Putin, sworn in for a third term as president on Monday after spending the past four years as premier, had
May 13, 2012
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Man charged with filming roommates
Police in Florida said they arrested a man accused of hiding a camera in an air vent to record his roommates having sex in their bedroom.Key West police said officers were called to the home Sunday by a 30-year-old man who told them he found the recording device taped inside the air conditioner vent directly over the bed he shares with his 26-year-old girlfriend, the Key West Citizen reported Frid
May 13, 2012
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Man wins six $1M prizes from same lottery
An Arizona man who purchased six Powerball lottery tickets with the same numbers ended up with six $1 million prizes.Karen Bach, an Arizona Lottery spokeswoman, said the Glendale man, who asked to remain anonymous, purchased the tickets for the April 25 lottery with the numbers 4, 25, 29, 34, and 43 for Powerball 29 and each ticket won him a $1 million second prize, the Arizona Republic reported F
May 13, 2012
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2012 not end of world for Mayans after all
Mayan wall writings in Guatemala include calendars suggesting the culture was not convinced the world will end in 2012, as many have believed, researchers say.Some previously discovered Mayan calendars did not go beyond 2012 -- but the newly discovered writings and calendars do, scientists said."So much for the supposed end of the world," said archaeologist William Saturno of Boston University, le
May 13, 2012
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Japan population clock shows 'extinction' in 1,000 years
Japanese researchers on Friday unveiled a population clock that showed the nation's people could theoretically become extinct in 1,000 years because of declining birth rates.Japanese people cross a street in Tokyo on Thursday. (AP-Yonhap News)Academics in the northern city of Sendai said that Japan's population of children aged up to 14, which now stands at 16.6 million, is shrinking at the rate o
May 13, 2012
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Romney counters notion he bullied gay classmates
WASHINGTON (AP) ― Mitt Romney, President Barack Obama’s presumed Republican challenger in this year’s election, apologized Thursday for “stupid” high school pranks and moved quickly to stamp out any notion that he bullied schoolmates because they were gay. Romney’s swift response reflected the candidate’s recognition that his record on gay rights is under heightened scrutiny after Obama on Wednesday became the first president in history to support gay marriage. Obama made his historic endorsemen
May 11, 2012
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Egypt sees Arab’s first presidential debate
CAIRO (AP) ― Two election front-runners, a former foreign minister and a moderate Islamist, squared off Thursday in the Arab world’s first ever presidential debate, trading barbs over the role of religion and how to bring democratic reform to Egypt.Egyptians crowded around television sets in outdoor cafes for the four-hour debate, aired on several independent TV channels ― a startling new experiment for Egypt after nearly 30 years of authoritarian rule under President Hosni Mubarak, ousted last
May 11, 2012
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Eighteen month-old baby weighs over 19kg
Eighteen month-old Dan Dan has been taken to the Hunan Provincial Children’s Hospital in China by her parents who were concerned over the baby’s massive size.Dan Dan weights over 19kg, which is more than double the standard weight for her age. “She has a big appetite,” her mother said, explaining that Dan Dan can nearly finish a big bowl of rice each meal.Despite the baby’s worrying weight, Dan Dan’s parents say they do not know how she could have grown so fat.“She started to grow quickly from o
May 11, 2012