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Exports to US reach all-time high, widen gap with China
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Trump rekindles criticism: US forces defending 'wealthy' S. Korea 'free of charge'
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[Music in drama] Rekindle a love that slipped through your fingers
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S. Korea discussed possible participation in AUKUS Pillar 2 with Australia: defense minister
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[New faces of Assembly] Architect behind ‘audacious initiative’ believes in denuclearized North Korea
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Seoul Metro to seek legal action against malicious complaints
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On May Day, labor unions blast Yoon's foreign nanny proposal
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Illit, mired in controversy, remains on Billboard charts for 5th week
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Opposition-led Assembly unilaterally passes bill to probe Marine's death
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[KH Explains] Will alternative trading platform shake up Korean stock market?
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Hospital fire in Indian city of Kolkata kills 61
KOLKATA, India (AP) -- A fire swept through a hospital in the Indian city of Kolkata early Friday, killing 61 people, many of them patients, and sending emergency workers scrambling to evacuate survivors from the smoke-filled building, officials said. Government officials accused the hospital staff of abandoning the patients and fleeing the building after the fire broke out. “It‘s a very serious offense, and we will take the strongest action,” West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said at t
Dec. 9, 2011
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NATO, Russia say still no agreement on missiles
BRUSSELS (AP) ― Russia and NATO remain deadlocked on a long-running dispute over the alliance’s plan for a missile shield for Europe, officials said Thursday, and Russia warned that time was running out for an agreement.NATO’s Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen reported no progress toward a deal on the contentious issue, following a key discussion among alliance foreign ministers and Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov that came amid political turmoil in Russia and tart criticism of the
Dec. 9, 2011
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Iran shows video of purported U.S. drone
TEHRAN (AP) ― Iranian state TV broadcast video Thursday of what it said was the high-tech U.S. drone that Tehran says its forces downed earlier this week, and lodged a diplomatic complaint over the violation of its airspace.The more than two minutes of footage showed Iranian military officials inspecting what state TV identified as the RQ-170 Sentinel drone, and offered the first evidence that Tehran had captured the aircraft. The beige-colored drone appeared intact and undamaged.The chief of th
Dec. 9, 2011
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China inflation cools to 4.2%
China’s inflation cooled to the slowest pace in 14 months in November, giving policy makers more room to loosen policies as export growth slows because of Europe’s debt crisis. Consumer prices rose 4.2 percent from a year earlier, the statistics bureau said on its website. That was lower than all estimates in a Bloomberg News survey of 35 economists that had a median forecast of 4.5 percent. Producer prices gained 2.7 percent, the smallest increase in 23 months. The fourth month of slowing infla
Dec. 9, 2011
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Ford ends 5-year dividend drought with 5-cent payout
Ford Motor Co., the second-largest U.S. automaker, declared Thursday a 5-cent quarterly dividend, its first payout to shareholders since September 2006. The move comes after Ford earned $1.65 billion in the three months ended in September, its 10th consecutive profitable quarter, and negotiated a new four-year contract with the United Auto Workers covering its 40,600 U.S. hourly workers. The dividend will be paid March 1 to shareholders of record on Jan. 31, the Dearborn, Michigan-based automake
Dec. 9, 2011
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Household wealth in U.S. takes biggest hit since 2008
WASHINGTON (AP) ― Americans’ wealth last summer suffered its biggest quarterly loss in more than two years as stocks, pension funds and home values lost value.At the same time, corporations raised their cash stockpiles to record levels.Household net worth fell 4 percent to $57.4 trillion in the July-September quarter, according to a Federal Reserve report released Thursday. It was the sharpest drop since the tumultuous period after the September 2008 bankruptcy of investment bank Lehman Brothers
Dec. 9, 2011
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Angels sign Pujols for $254m
DALLAS (AP) ― Albert Pujols could have been a wealthy Cardinal for life, planning for the day his statue would be erected outside Busch Stadium next to those of Stan Musial, Bob Gibson and the other St. Louis greats.Instead, exactly six weeks after leading the Cardinals to a second title in one of the most thrilling World Series ever, he decided to accept the second-highest contract in Major League Baseball history for a new future in southern California with the Los Angeles Angels.The three-tim
Dec. 9, 2011
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Coke secret formula gets 1st new home since 1925
ATLANTA (AP) _ The Coca-Cola Co. has made its secret formula the centerpiece of a new exhibit at its corporate museum, ditching the confines of the bank vault where the list of ingredients had been stored since 1925.The world's largest beverage maker said Thursday a new vault containing the formula
Dec. 9, 2011
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Virginia Tech locks down as cop, 1 other killed
BLACKSBURG, Virginia (AP) _ A gunman walked into a parking lot and killed a Virginia Tech police officer who was conducting a traffic stop Thursday, state police said, in the first gunfire on campus since 33 people were killed in 2007 in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Students r
Dec. 9, 2011
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World’s oldest dog dies at age 26
TOKYO (AP) ― The world’s oldest dog according to Guinness World Records has died at the age of 26 years and eight months.Pusuke, a fluffy tan Shiba mix, died Monday after suddenly falling ill and refusing to eat, owner Yumiko Shinohara told reporters at her home in Sakura, a city outside Tokyo.“I would just like to thank him for staying alive so long,” Shinohara told TV network FNN. The report said Pusuke’s lifespan would have been the equivalent of about 125 years for a human.According to Guinn
Dec. 8, 2011
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Pakistan president crushes rumors he may step down
ISLAMABAD (AP) ― President Asif Ali Zardari was having tests related to a heart condition in a Dubai hospital Wednesday but is expected to return to Pakistan within days, officials said, denying rumors that the embattled and unpopular leader may be stepping down.Some reports said Zardari, who in September underwent medical tests for a cardiac condition in Britain, may have suffered a mild heart attack. Those were also denied by officials, some of whom suggested the rumors were being spread by po
Dec. 8, 2011
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Yemen forms national unity government
SANAA (AP) ― Yemen’s vice president announced the formation of a national unity government Wednesday as part of a power transfer deal to ease embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh out of power and end months of political turmoil, the state news agency said.SABA said Vice President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi issued a decree approving the formation of the new 35-member cabinet headed by the veteran independent politician Mohammed Basindwa. Government posts are equally divided between Saleh’s Congres
Dec. 8, 2011
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Egyptian P.M. names new cabinet; Islamists sweep runoff votes
CAIRO (AFP) ― Egypt’s caretaker premier named a new cabinet on Wednesday with increased powers to tackle worsening crime and a sliding economy as Islamist parties made fresh gains in the country’s parliamentary election.Interim premier Kamal el-Ganzouri announced his administration following nearly two weeks of delays, reportedly caused by problems in finding a suitable candidate to fill the highly sensitive interior ministry post.He finally opted for Mohammed Ibrahim Yusuf, who headed police in
Dec. 8, 2011
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Ex-U.S. governor gets 14 years in prison for corruption
CHICAGO (AP) ― The Rod Blagojevich who once challenged a prosecutor to face him like a man, the glad-handing politician who took to celebrity TV shows to profess his innocence, was nowhere to be found Wednesday as he was sentenced to 14 years in prison for corruption.Frowning and pulling nervously at his tie, the disgraced former governor seemed like another person as he stepped up to the address the sentencing judge. His bluster, once as conspicuous as his famously lavish head of dark hair, wip
Dec. 8, 2011
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Citizens simmer as Russia limits protests
Putin officially registers to run for president; ex-Soviet leader Gorbachev calls for new voteMOSCOW (AP) ― Popular anger against Vladimir Putin’s ruling party and alleged election fraud have boiled over into a third straight night of protests, and police in Russia’s two largest cities arrested scores of demonstrators.The demonstrations in Moscow and St. Petersburg on Wednesday appeared to attract fewer protesters than in previous days, roughly 300 in each city, but Russians’ willingness to risk
Dec. 8, 2011
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Maintenance man charged with murdering N. Ga. girl
CANTON, Ga. (AP) — A 20-year-old maintenance worker was arrested in the beating death of a 7-year-old north Georgia girl who was abducted and killed at an apartment complex and her body left in a trash bin, authorities said Wednesday.Ryan Brunn, who lived and worked at the apartment complex, w
Dec. 8, 2011
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Anti-vote fraud protests in Russia for 3rd night
Alexei Navalny, one of Russia`s best-known bloggers, chants anti-government slogans during an opposition rally in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Dec. 5, 2011.(AP)MOSCOW (AP) _ Popular anger against Vladimir Putin's ruling party and alleged election fraud have boiled over into a third straight night of prot
Dec. 8, 2011
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Top Italian mob boss nabbed in hometown bunker
ROME (AP) -- Police on Wednesday captured one of Italy's most-wanted fugitive mobsters, arresting the last major boss of one of Italy's bloodiest mafia clans.Michele Zagaria, on the run since 1995, was found in an underground bunker in Casapesenna, in his hometown province of Caserta in southern Ita
Dec. 8, 2011
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Seoul takes Asia’s culinary spotlight
Ask international gourmands to name the food capitals of Asia, and chances are they’ll rattle off no-brainers like Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai, cities with vibrant expatriate populations and a slew of upscale restaurants operated by acclaimed chefs.This year, Seoul joins these ranks, at least according to one regional restaurant guide.For the first time, one of Korea’s restaurants, Pierre Gagnaire a Seoul, has been listed among Asia’s Top 20 in The Miele Guide 2011-2012, a compilation of t
Dec. 7, 2011
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Carnage in Kabul sparks fear of sectarian strife
KABUL (AP) ― In Afghanistan’s first major sectarian assault since the fall of the Taliban regime a decade ago, a suicide bomber slaughtered 56 Shiite worshippers and wounded more than 160 others Tuesday outside a Shiite shrine in the capital.The body of a woman, clutching a dead child in each arm, was sprawled along a dirt road littered with shoes, bloodstained clothing, hats and body parts after the blast, which took place as a bombing killed four Shiites in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif.
Dec. 7, 2011