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Marine Corps commander summoned by CIO for questioning on alleged influence-peddling case
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Debate rages over ‘overly fatty’ samgyeopsal
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[Weekender] Korean psyche untangled: Musok
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40 flights canceled on Jeju Island due to bad weather
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N. Korea slams US, other countries for seeking alternative to UN sanctions monitoring panel
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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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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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From fake prostitution ring to nonexistent robber, prank calls hamper police
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Missing S. Korean traveler in Paris found safe after 2 weeks
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Little Muslim support for bin Laden’s group: poll
WASHINGTON (AP) ― Muslim majorities in an arc of five countries from Egypt to Pakistan have little good to say about al-Qaida one year after American commandos killed the Muslim terror group’s leader, a poll shows.Most of the views expressed by Muslims in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Pakistan were overwhelmingly negative in the poll conducted as part of the Pew Research Center’s Global Attitudes Project, released Monday.The organization cautioned that findings in Pakistan, where U.S. Navy
May 1, 2012
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U.N. chief Ban holds talks with Suu Kyi
YANGON (AFP) ― U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon met Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi Tuesday for talks about the country’s political future after a surprise climbdown by the Nobel laureate in her boycott of parliament.The talks at the opposition leader’s lakeside mansion in Yangon, where she was locked up by the former junta for much of the past two decades, come a day after Ban became the first visiting foreigner to address Myanmar’s legislature.It is the first meeting between Suu Kyi and Ba
May 1, 2012
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Sarkozy sues after Gadhafi cash claim
PARIS (AFP) ― Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday sued a website that claimed Moammar Gadhafi financed his 2007 presidential election, seeking to spin the charge in the crucial final week before France goes to the polls.Right-wing incumbent Sarkozy is clawing back points from Socialist frontrunner Francois Hollande, whose own presidential bid has been hit by the intrusion of disgraced IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn into the campaign.Both candidates have been appealing to the 18 percent of voters who cho
May 1, 2012
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200 dead, missing as India ferry sinks
GUWAHATI, India (AFP) ― Hopes dimmed Tuesday of finding more survivors after an overcrowded ferry split in two and sank in northeast India, leaving more than 100 dead and around 100 missing.Police said 105 bodies, including women and children, had been recovered so far from the fast-flowing waters of the Brahmaputra River in Assam state, where the ferry sank in a sudden storm late Monday afternoon.Despite an operating capacity of 225, some 350 people were believed to be on the two deck boat when
May 1, 2012
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Al-qaida plans found inside porn video
German investigators found more than a hundred secret al-Qaida documents imbedded in a pornographic video, BBC reported Tuesday.The documents, found on a memory disk that housed the movie and was confiscated from suspected al-Qaida members Maqsood Lodin and Yusuf Ocak last May, revealed terrorist group’s plans for the future and documents of past attacks.One of the most chilling prospects was a plan to hijack a ship, then execute the passengers one-by-one unless authorities succumbed to al-Qaida
May 1, 2012
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College dropout becomes math genius after head injury
U.S. college dropout has turned a mathematics genius after being brutally attacked by a group of street robbers.Jason Padgett, 41, was ambushed outside a karaoke club and repeatedly kicked in head, causing brain damage.But since the attack, Padgett he sees mathematical formulas wherever he looks, turning them into intricate diagrams he can draw by hand.He is the only person who can visually depict infinite pi, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.Experts say the transformat
May 1, 2012
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Protesters sprayed with holy water
Members of a Russian Orthodox organization used holy water to disperse dozens of protesters supporting jailed punk band Pussy Riot in downtown Moscow.Members of the Union of Orthodox Banner Bearers dumped holy water on the protesters Sunday at the Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow while chanting "no Sodom," RIA Novosti reported Monday.The unsanctioned demonstration was in support of members of
May 1, 2012
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200 dead and missing as India ferry sinks
An overcrowded river ferry broke in two and sank in northeast India during a severe storm on Monday, leaving at least 105 people dead and almost as many missing, police said.As rescuers struggled in heavy rain to find survivors weeping relatives lined the shores of the fast-flowing Brahmaputra river in Assam state, desperate for news of family members on board the vessel.It was carrying around 350
May 1, 2012
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Weaker al-Qaida still plots payback for U.S. raid
WASHINGTON (AP) ― A year after the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden, al-Qaida is hobbled and hunted, too busy surviving for the moment to carry out another Sept. 11-style attack on U.S. soil.But the terrorist network dreams still of payback, and U.S. counterterrorist officials warn that, in time, its offshoots may deliver.A decade of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that has cost the U.S. about $1.28 trillion and 6,300 U.S. troops’ lives has forced al-Qaida’s affiliates to regroup, from Yemen t
April 30, 2012
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Japan P.M. in U.S. to turn page for alliance
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda on Sunday started a visit to the United States aimed at turning the page on an uneasy few years in the alliance, days after a deal on a thorny troop dispute.Noda, who arrived at Andrews Air Force Base for his three-day trip, is the first Japanese premier to visit Washington for a solely bilateral visit since his center-left Democratic Party of Japan took power in 2009 elections.At a White House meeting Monday, Noda is expected to talk to President Barack Ob
April 30, 2012
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Many Asian wives now hold purse strings
Ismail Giu no longer pockets the money he earns as the man in charge of protocol for the government of Gorontalo in Indonesia. It all goes straight into his wife’s bank account.In yet another sign that times are changing in parts of Asia such as Gorontalo, a predominantly Muslim province in Sulawesi, more and more wives control the purse strings.A new ruling that went into effect there last month requires all married men who are civil servants to hand over their monthly salaries to their wives.W
April 30, 2012
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Myanmar in transition
On a recent hot and dusty Sunday afternoon, a crumbling neighbourhood in downtown Yangon was heaving with local pop music.In smoky roadside kiosks, young men and women traded giggles over cold beers, while watching a Thai television soap opera.Myanmar is better now. Not like before when you cannot talk about anything, said a young man who wanted to be identified only as Thant Min just before the April 1 by-elections.Outside, street vendors pushed colourful T-shirts printed with the picture of op
April 30, 2012
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Under-age call girl scandal shakes Singapore elite
An unfolding scandal over an under-age call girl has shaken Singapore's political and economic elite after businessmen, civil servants and uniformed officers were charged in the case.Prostitution is legal in Singapore, but 48 men ranging in age from their early 20s to late 40s have so far been charged under a 2008 law making it a crime to pay for sex with a girl under 18.Singapore has long been pe
April 30, 2012
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Iran slams U.S. pastor's burning of Koran
Iran on Monday slammed a US pastor's burning of a Koran, calling it provocative and demanding US authorities take action to prevent any recurrence.Iran's foreign ministry said in a statement carried by the official IRNA news agency that it "strongly condemns this ridiculous, insulting and provoking act by a so-called American priest in overt contempt of the holy Koran."The condemnation was in reac
April 30, 2012
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Obama, Clintons deepen political, policy ties
WASHINGTON (AP) ― Once a tense rivalry, the relationship between President Barack Obama and Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton has evolved into a genuine political and policy partnership. Both sides have a strong incentive in making the alliance work, especially in an election year.For Obama, Bill Clinton is a fundraising juggernaut, a powerful reminder to voters that a Democrat ran the White House the last time the economy was thriving. For the spotlight-loving former president, stronger ties with
April 30, 2012
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Child benefit plan sparks tantrums in Germany
German lawmaker Dorothee Baer plans to go back to work eight weeks after the birth of her third child at the end of the minimum maternity leave, as she did for her first two children.But that has not stopped the 34-year-old conservative vociferously speaking out in favor of a proposed new benefit system which, she says, would help parents raise their children according to their own values and circ
April 30, 2012
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Australian billionaire to build Titanic II
One of Australia's richest men, Clive Palmer, has unveiled plans for a 21st century version of the Titanic to be built in China, with its first voyage from England to New York set for 2016.Palmer, a self-made mining billionaire, said he has commissioned state-owned Chinese company CSC Jinling Shipyard to construct Titanic II with exactly the same dimensions as its predecessor."It will be every bit
April 30, 2012
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Nigeria church service attacks
21 killed in north Nigeria church service attacksKANO, Nigeria (AP) -- Gunmen attacked worship services at a university campus and a church Sunday in northern Nigeria, killing at least 21 people in coordinated assaults that saw panicked Christians gunned down as they tried to flee, witnesses and officials said.The deadlier attack targeted an old section of Bayero University‘s campus in the city of Kano where churches hold Sunday services, with gunmen killing at least 16 people and wounding at le
April 30, 2012
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Sudan declares state of emergency on South border
Sudan declared a state of emergency along its border with South Sudan on Sunday after month-long border clashes, as four foreigners allegedly arrested in the Heglig oil region remained in custody.President Omar al-Bashir issued a resolution declaring the emergency in the border states of South Kordofan, White Nile and Sennar, the official SUNA news agency said. Other parts of the border were alrea
April 30, 2012
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Ruling puts dolphin show limbo
Human rights and welfare have become political issues in Korea in the recent general elections and the run-up to December’s presidential poll. Less discussed but gaining prominence is the issue of animal rights in the country, which only passed its first Animal Welfare Law in 1991. In the first such case in Korean history, a court this month ruled on the case of five illegally captured dolphins.The president and a director of Pacific Land, a tourist attraction near Jungmun Beach on the south coa
April 29, 2012