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Hyundai Motor eyes 80,000 jobs, W68tr investment at home by 2026
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Seoul bus drivers go on general strike, cause morning rush hour delays
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Official campaigning kicks off for April 10 elections
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Dialogue hopes fade as doctors pick hard-liner as new head
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Korea enters full election mode
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Coupang pledges W3tr to expand Rocket Delivery nationwide by 2027
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[Election Battlefield] Political novice to face off star politician in ‘swing district’
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[Kim Seong-kon] The April 2024 election will decide our future
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Seoul’s bus union prepares for strike
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[Herald Interview] Son Suk-ku chooses to be swayed by others in navigating life
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Japan crisis reaches new level
Jan. 1, 2012
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Japan crisis spurs iodide demand in U.S.
Jan. 1, 2012
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G7 to hold talks over Japan crisis
Jan. 1, 2012
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Japan crisis a blow to GE, reactor design an issue
Jan. 1, 2012
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Fuel rods big risk in Japan nuclear plant
Jan. 1, 2012
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Bahrain arrests opposition leaders
Jan. 1, 2012
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Japan may resort to burying plant
Jan. 1, 2012
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U.N. approves military action as Gadhafi forces close in on rebels
Jan. 1, 2012
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Syrian forces fire warning shots in Deraa
Jan. 1, 2012
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More cars set afire in LA, arson suspected
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Several more cars burned in suspected arson attacks in the Los Angeles area early Saturday morning, and authorities investigated if they were connected to nearly two dozen deliberately set blazes a day earlier, police said.Seven or eight cars burned Saturday in the North Hollywoo
Jan. 1, 2012
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No radiation threat in Russian nuke sub fire
MOSCOW (AP) ― A massive fire engulfed a Russian nuclear submarine at an Arctic shipyard Thursday, but there has been no radiation leak, or injuries, officials said.The fire at the Yekaterinburg nuclear submarine occurred while it was in dock for repairs at the Roslyakovo shipyard in the Murmansk region, said Irina Gretskaya, a spokeswoman for the Emergencies Ministry’s branch in the area. “No one has been hurt and there has been no radiation leak,” she said.Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konash
Dec. 30, 2011
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China reveals its space plans for next 5 years
BEIJING (AP) ― China plans to launch space labs and manned ships and prepare to build space stations over the next five years, according to a plan released Thursday that shows the country’s space program is gathering momentum.China has already said its eventual goals are to have a space station and put an astronaut on the moon. It has made methodical progress with its ambitious lunar and human spaceflight programs, but its latest five-year plan beginning next year signals an acceleration.By the
Dec. 30, 2011
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Monitors energize Syrian protests
HOMS, Syria (AP) ― The presence of Arab League monitors in Syria has re-energized the anti-government protest movement, with tens of thousands turning out over the past three days in cities and neighborhoods where the observers are expected to visit. The huge rallies have been met by lethal gunfire from security forces apparently worried about multiple mass sit-ins modeled after Cairo’s Tahrir Square.On Thursday, security forces opened fire on tens of thousands protesting outside a mosque in a D
Dec. 30, 2011
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Japan ups sales tax to reduce debt
Japan’s ruling party compromised on a plan to double the sales tax by 2015 to help reduce the world’s largest public debt, delaying implementation by six months to help lawmakers meet a campaign pledge. The proposal by Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda would raise the sales tax from 5 percent to 8 percent in April 2014 and to 10 percent in October 2015. The agreement, reached late yesterday, must be approved by a government panel led by Finance Minister Jun Azumi before discussion with the oppositio
Dec. 30, 2011
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Monti warns of ongoing market turbulence
ROME (AP) ― Italy’s borrowing costs fell for a second day Thursday but the country’s new premier said his government has more to do before it convinces financial markets it can manage the heavy debts that have made it the focus of the eurozone crisis.Mario Monti said he was encouraged by the bond auctions at which the interest costs paid out by Italy to bond investors eased. He said his government of technocrats, in office for just a month and a half following the resignation of Silvio Berluscon
Dec. 30, 2011
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Man, 99, seeks divorce over old affair
A 99-year-old Italian man filing for divorce from his 96-year-old wife said he found letters from an affair she had 50 years ago.The Rome man, a Sardinia native who has been married to his wife for 77 years, came across letters she sent to a former lover during the late 1950s, the ANSA news agency r
Dec. 30, 2011
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Broom battle breaks out in birthplace of Jesus
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) ― The annual cleaning of one of Christianity’s holiest churches deteriorated into a brawl between rival clergy Wednesday, as dozens of monks feuding over sacred space at the Church of the Nativity battled each other with brooms until police intervened.The ancient church, built over the traditional site of Jesus’ birth in Bethlehem, is shared by three Christian denominations ― Roman Catholics, Armenians and Greek Orthodox. Wednesday’s fight erupted between Greek and Arme
Dec. 29, 2011
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Saudi women to run, vote without male approval
RIYADH (AP) ― Women in Saudi Arabia will not need a male guardian’s approval to run or vote in municipal elections in 2015, when women will also run for office for the first time, a Saudi official said Wednesday.The change signifies a step forward in easing the kingdom’s restrictions against women, but it falls far short of what some Saudi reformers are calling for.Shura Council member Fahad al-Anzi was quoted in the state-run al-Watan newspaper saying that approval for women to run and vote cam
Dec. 29, 2011
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Chinese lawyer goes on trial in dissent crackdown
BEIJING (AP) -- A former lawyer and veteran activist left disabled by past police mistreatment went on trial Thursday, the third dissident in a week to be prosecuted as China presses a sweeping crackdown to deter popular uprisings like the ones that shook the Arab world.Looking thin and frail, Ni Yulan lay on a bed and used an oxygen machine to help her breathe during the hearing, her daughter, Dong Xuan, said afterward. Dong said she told the court about her mother’s run-ins with police since 2
Dec. 29, 2011
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On-going violence in Syria despite monitors
BEIRUT (AP) ― Arab League monitors gathered accounts about the Syrian government’s crackdown on dissent in the central city of Homs Wednesday as fresh violence flared just dozens of miles away. Activists said troops opened fire on thousands of unarmed protesters, killing at least six.Though President Bashar Assad’s regime has made concessions to the observers, including the release of nearly 800 prisoners, the military was pressing ahead with a campaign to put down mostly peaceful protests.In th
Dec. 29, 2011