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Yoon, Lee end first talks with differences, agree to meet more
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What is Hybe’s next move?
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Medical profs at top hospitals suspend surgeries, clinics
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Samsung chip business back on track, logs W1.9tr operating profit in Q1
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[News Focus] Lee tells Yoon that he has governed without political dialogue
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Hopes rise for possible Gaza truce deal
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Shinsegae faces showdown with investors over SSG.com's delayed IPO
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Ex-pro baseball player who killed debtor appeals sentence
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S. Korea to issue travel ban on Haiti amid intensifying gang violence
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Seventeen shows who is the ‘Maestro’ of K-pop in greatest hits album
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Tokyo braces for next big quake
Experts say there is a high probability that a big earthquake will shake Tokyo in the next four years but is Japan’s capital ready for such a disaster?When the magnitude-9 undersea Great East Japan earthquake occurred on March 11 last year, professor Hirata Naoshi was on the 16th floor of a building in Tokyo’s government district, Kasumigaseki, attending a meeting with bureaucrats. The agenda: earthquakes.“Everyone attending the meeting received an early warning system. We watched the television
April 2, 2012
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Clinton to Iran: Prove nuclear arms not sought
ISTANBUL (AP) ― U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Sunday urged Iran to back up its declaration that Islam bars weapons of mass destruction by agreeing to a plan that would prove it does not intend to develop nuclear arms.Ahead of international talks April 13 in Istanbul on Iran’s uranium enrichment program, Clinton talked strategy with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who visited Tehran last week with other government officials.“They were told that the supreme leader
April 2, 2012
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Most women leave cooking to their partner
Most U.S. women say the reason they don't cook frequently was having a partner who does most of the cooking, a survey indicated. The survey of 2,806 U.S. women, commissioned by Asia Food Recipe, indicated 58 percent of the respondents said their husbands are better cooks, but 36 percent said they didn't have sufficient time to cook and 12 percent said they didn't want to clean up afterwards. Almos
April 2, 2012
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‘Friends of Syria’ tighten screws on regime
Clinton accuses Assad of breaking cease-fire promise; Annan due to brief Security CouncilISTANBUL (AFP) ― Western and Arab nations called Sunday for Syria’s Bashar al-Assad to be given a deadline to meet the terms of a peace plan as fresh clashes in a year-long uprising claimed another 40 lives.An international conference in Istanbul by “Friends of Syria” countries also urged the United Nations to act to stop the violence, but steered clear of backing opposition appeals for arms to fight the reg
April 2, 2012
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Mali coup leader reinstates old constitution
BAMAKO (AP) ― The junior officer who overthrew Mali’s democratically elected leader earlier this month and dissolved the nation’s constitution made a public U-turn, declaring amid enormous international pressure that he was reinstating the 1992 constitution and planning to hold elections.Capt. Amadou Haya Sanogo added Sunday that he would organize a national convention to agree on a transitional government which will organize free and fair elections. What he did not make clear is when the conven
April 2, 2012
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Former Mexican president dies
MEXICO CITY (AP) ― Former President Miguel de la Madrid, who led Mexico from 1982 to 1988 during an economic crisis and a devastating earthquake, died Sunday at age 77, the government said.De la Madrid was the first in a string of presidents who pulled Mexico away from a state-dominated economy and toward free trade by bringing the country into the precursor to the World Trade Organization and by privatizing hundreds of government businesses.President Felipe Calderon called De la Madrid “a Mexic
April 2, 2012
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Suu Kyi set to win seat in Myanmar parliament
WAH THIN KHA, Myanmar (AP) ― Myanmar held a landmark election Sunday that was expected to send democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi into parliament for her first public office since launching her decades-long struggle against the military-dominated government.Sunday’s by-election, to fill a few dozen vacant seats, followed months of surprising reforms by a nominally civilian government that does not relish ceding ground to Suu Kyi, but which must appear more democratic in order to emerge from decades
April 1, 2012
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Syria says revolt beaten, U.S. seeks ‘next steps’
DAMASCUS (AFP) ― Syria’s regime declared on Saturday it has defeated those seeking to bring it down while reiterating support for a U.N.-Arab peace plan, as its troops reportedly shelled rebels in the city of Homs.The opposition reacted by calling for outside powers to arm rebel forces, while the United States and Gulf Arab states urged international envoy Kofi Annan to spell out the “next steps” if Damascus failed to implement his plan.Foreign ministry spokesman Jihad Makdisi, cited by the offi
April 1, 2012
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Egypt’s Brotherhood fields presidential candidate
CAIRO (AP) ― Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, in control of almost half the seats in parliament, announced on Saturday it was fielding its own presidential candidate. It was a reversal of an earlier decision to stay out of the race and could put the group on a collision course with the nation’s ruling generals.The Brotherhood nominated chief strategist and deputy leader Khayrat el-Shater, a multimillionaire businessman considered one of the key leaders guiding the group through the tumultuous transit
April 1, 2012
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Clinton: Time running out for diplomacy with Iran
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton made clear Saturday that time is running out for diplomacy over Iran's nuclear program and said talks aimed at preventing Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon would resume in mid-April.With speculation over a possible U.S. or Israel military attack adding urgency to the next round of discussions in Istanbul set for April 13, Clinton said Iran's ``window of opportunity'' for a peaceful resolution ``will not remain open
April 1, 2012
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Bombs in Thailand kill 14, wound 341
HAT YAI, Thailand (AP) ― Suspected Muslim insurgents staged the most deadly coordinated attacks in years in Thailand’s restive south, killing 14 people and wounding 340 with car bombs that targeted Saturday shoppers and a high-rise hotel frequented by foreign tourists.A first batch of explosives planted inside a parked pickup truck ripped through an area of restaurants and shops in a busy area of Yala city, a main commercial hub of Thailand’s restive southern provinces, said district police chie
April 1, 2012
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World landmarks dimmed for Earth Hour
LONDON (AP) ― Sydney’s iconic Harbor Bridge and Opera House went dark for an hour on Saturday, part of a global effort to shine a spotlight on climate change.Hundreds of landmarks around the world, including Washington’s National Cathedral, Big Ben in London, the Great Wall of China and Tokyo Tower are being dimmed at 8:30 p.m. local time.The central Sydney icons have been taking part in the annual event since Earth Hour began as a Sydney-only event in 2007. Australia was among the first countri
April 1, 2012
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Japan 'worst case tsunami' could reach 35-meters
A 35-meter tsunami could hit the Japanese coast in the wake of a massive earthquake, an expert panel has said after revising its worst case scenario projections following last year's disaster. In this Nov. 12, 2011 file photo, the Unit 4 reactor building of the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station is seen through a bus window in Okuma town, north of Tokyo. (AP-Yonhap News)If a
April 1, 2012
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Myanmar's Suu Kyi reported winning historic vote
She struggled for a free Myanmar for a quarter-century, much of it spent locked away under house arrest. Now, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate whose nonviolent campaign for democracy at home transformed her into a global icon is on the verge of ascending to public office for the first time. Aung San Suu Kyi (AP-Yonhap News)Aung San Suu Kyi, 66, was elected to parliament Sunday in a historic victory
April 1, 2012
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China punishes social media, websites on coup talk
China is closing a dozen websites, penalizing two popular social media sites and detaining six people for circulating rumors of a coup that rattled Beijing in the midst of its worst high-level political crisis in years.The extensive clampdown, announced late Friday by state media, underscores the authoritarian government's anxieties over a public that is wired to the Internet and eager to discuss
April 1, 2012
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April 1, 2012
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3 tickets share record $640M U.S. lottery jackpot
Three lottery tickets sold in Illinois, Kansas and Maryland hit the world record-breaking $640 million Mega Millions jackpot, lottery officials said Saturday, dashing the get-rich-quick dreams of millions of players across the country.Illinois' winner used a quick pick in which the computer selected the winning numbers on a ticket sold at a convenience store in the small town of Red Bud, near St.
April 1, 2012
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Stricken cruise ship repaired, heading to Malaysia
A cruise ship with 1,000 people on board that had drifted for 24 hours after being disabled by a fire was headed toward Malaysia following repairs and was expected to reach shore Sunday, the ship's company said. The Azamara Quest, which had embarked on a 17-day Southeast Asian cruise, was left drift
March 31, 2012
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Record $640 million U.S. lottery prize reported to have winner
NEW YORK (AFP) -- The record $640 million lottery prize that sent the United States into a gambling frenzy reportedly had at least one winner early Saturday as local media said the winning ticket had been sold in the state of Maryland. The winning numbers -- 2, 4, 23, 38, 46 with Me
March 31, 2012
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China punishes social media, websites on coup talk
BEIJING (AP) -- China is shuttering more than a dozen websites, penalizing two popular social media sites and detaining six people for circulating rumors of a coup that rattled Beijing in the midst of its worst high-level political crisis in years. The announcement carried late Frid
March 31, 2012