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40 flights canceled on Jeju Island due to bad weather
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Pandemic left Korea more depressed than before: report
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N. Korea slams US, other countries for seeking alternative to UN sanctions monitoring panel
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Gov't appears to shelve punitive measures against mass walkout by doctors
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Govt. asks hospitals to mitigate impact of medical professors' absence
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S. Korea, China, Japan in talks to hold trilateral summit May 26-27: official
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S. Korea's working-age population to dip nearly 10m by 2044 amid low births
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Doggy patrol team on the move to protect their cities
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Sales of eco-friendly cars top 100,000 in Q1 in S. Korea
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[Herald Interview] Director of 'Goodbye Earth' aimed to ask how we would face apocalypse
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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
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Twin car bombs in Syrian capital kill dozens
Twin suicide car bombs exploded outside a military intelligence building and killed 55 people Thursday, tossing mangled bodies in the street in the deadliest attack against a regime target since the Syrian uprising began 14 months ago.The bombings fueled fears of a rising Islamic militant element among the forces seeking to oust President Bashar Assad and dealt a further blow to international effo
May 11, 2012
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Syria says 55 dead in Damascus suicide blasts
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) _ Two suicide blasts ripped through the Syrian capital Thursday, killing 55 people and leaving scenes of carnage in the streets in the deadliest bombing since the country's uprising began 14 months ago, the Interior Ministry said.An Associated Press reporter at the scene said paramedics wearing rubber gloves were collecting human remains from the pavement after the explosions.
May 10, 2012
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Korean, black communities move on, learning from racial confrontation
DALLAS, Texas (Yonhap News) ― Korean-American Thomas Pak had little idea of the ensuing storm that would be sparked by the encounter last December inside his South Dallas gas station with African-American Jeffrey Muhammad.Their exchange was relatively brief, but if some accounts are to be believed, it was also angry and weighed down by racial overtones. And it launched a months-long boycott of Pak’s business by members of the largely African-American community. Corralled outside his premises, th
May 10, 2012
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Chen says China authorities targeting relatives
BEIJING (AFP) -- Blind activist Chen Guangchen on Thursday accused authorities in his home province in eastern China of seeking revenge for his escape by detaining his nephew and threatening other relatives.Chen, whose daring flight from house arrest to the U.S. embassy in Beijing sparked a diplomatic crisis, said his nephew Chen Kegui was in police custody in Yinan county in Shandong province after attacking an intruder last month.Local villagers and Internet reports have said the intruder was
May 10, 2012
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Algeria votes in its first poll since Arab Spring
ALGIERS (AFP) -- Voting began across Algeria Thursday in the country‘s first polls since the Arab Spring swept the region, with the ruling party, its Islamist allies and a boycott movement all hoping for victory.The first of the more than 48,000 polling stations in Africa’s largest country opened at 8:00 a.m., many under tight police surveillance.State television showed live footage of voters pouring into a polling station as soon as the doors opened and jostling to be the first to cast their ba
May 10, 2012
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Wreckage of Russian plane found in Indonesia
CIGOMBONG, Indonesia (AFP) -- The wreckage of a Russian Sukhoi passenger jet was found Thursday on the side of a dormant Indonesian volcano and authorities said there was no chance any of the dozens aboard could have survived.A helicopter pilot spotted the debris of Russia‘s first post-Soviet civilian plane scattered over rocks and trees on the sheer face of Mount Salak outside the city of Bogor, officials said.The twin-engine Superjet 100 vanished from radar screens south of Indonesia’s capital
May 10, 2012
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Syria says dozens dead or wounded in blasts
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -- Two strong explosions ripped through the Syrian capital Thursday, killing or wounding dozens of people and leaving scenes of carnage in the streets in an assault against a center of government power.The blasts, which ripped the facade off a military intelligence building, happened at about 7:50 a.m. when employees are usually arriving at work.An Associated Press reporter at the scene said medical workers were collecting human remains from the streets after the explosions
May 10, 2012
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China issues warnings on Philippines
MANILA (AFP) -- China told its citizens Thursday they were not safe in the Philippines and its state media warned of war, as a month-long row over rival claims in the South China Sea threatened to spill out of control.Chinese travel agencies announced they had suspended tours to the Philippines, under government orders, and the embassy in Manila advised its nationals already in the country to stay indoors ahead of planned protests.“Avoid going out at all if possible, and if not, to avoid going o
May 10, 2012
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Greek left-wing leader says coalition bid fails
ATHENS (AP) ― Greece drew closer to holding repeat elections next month after Radical Left leader Alexis Tsipras said Wednesday he has failed to forge a coalition that would end the financially struggling country’s political deadlock.Tsipras, whose anti-austerity party was the surprise runner-up in weekend national elections, said that despite his best efforts since receiving the presidential mandate on Tuesday, he was unable to raise enough support to form a government.Tsipras has been seeking
May 10, 2012
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Obama takes gamble on gay marriage
Officials describe Obama’s shift as both personal and politicalWASHINGTON (AFP) ― Barack Obama became the first U.S. president Wednesday to say publicly he was in favor of same-sex marriage, in a high-stakes intervention in a pre-election debate roiling American politics.In what supporters will hail as a historic moment in civil rights history, Obama changed his stance, after previously saying he was “evolving” on gay marriage, a fiercely divisive issue in U.S. politics.“I’ve just concluded, for
May 10, 2012