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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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Britain orders Iran’s diplomats to leave
LONDON (AP) ― Britain ordered all Iranian diplomats out of the U.K. within 48 hours and shuttered its ransacked embassy in Tehran on Wednesday, in a significant escalation of tensions between Iran and the West.The ouster of the entire Iranian diplomatic corps deepens Iran’s international isolation amid growing suspicions over its nuclear program. At least four other European countries also moved to reduce diplomatic contacts with Iran.The British measures were announced by Foreign Secretary Will
Dec. 1, 2011
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New Zealand least corrupt, Somalia, North Korea worst in the world
BERLIN (AP) ― Widespread corruption ignited protests this year across the Middle East and in those nations badly shaken by Europe’s debt crisis as citizens demanded accountability from their governments, an international watchdog said Thursday.A movement for greater transparency took on greater momentum in 2011 forcing leaders and bureaucracies to “heed the demands for better government,” Transparency International said in its annual corruption perceptions index that scored 183 countries based o
Dec. 1, 2011
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Pressure on Russian voters: watchdog
MOSCOW (AP) ― Alexei Balitsky, a student at Russia’s top engineering school, is among hundreds of people across the country who have complained of pressure to vote for the Kremlin’s party in this weekend’s parliamentary elections.The independent election watchdog group Golos said Wednesday that about a third of the 4,000 complaints of violations it has received so far come from voters who say they are being pressured ― mostly by bosses at work or professors at universities ― to vote for United R
Dec. 1, 2011
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Belgium parties agree on deal to end 535-day crisis
BRUSSELS (AFP) ― Political parties in Belgium, which has been without a government for 535 days, agreed Wednesday on the blueprint of a ruling coalition to be headed by French-speaking Socialist Elio Di Rupo.“There is a global agreement, on the reform of the state, socio-economic questions and a government platform,” a source close to the negotiations told AFP.Di Rupo emerged from the talks with a smile, but refused comment after days of trying to hammer out a deal between six parties split by p
Dec. 1, 2011
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After raids, Occupy protesters shift tactics
Major demonstrations nearing end as police dismantle Philadelphia, L.A. sitesNEW YORK (AP) ― The overnight police raids in Philadelphia and Los Angeles that dismantled two of the nation’s biggest Occupy Wall Street encampments leave just a few major “occupations” still going on around the U.S. But activists are already changing tactics and warning of a winter of discontent, with rallies and marches every week.The camps may bloom again in the spring, organizers said, and next summer could bring h
Dec. 1, 2011
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China expects 48,000 new HIV cases this year
BEIJING (AP) -- China will have about 780,000 people infected with the AIDS virus by the end of this year, state media reported Wednesday, with most having contracted it through heterosexual sex.The official Xinhua News Agency said a report from the Ministry of Health and the United Nations estimate
Nov. 30, 2011
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Biden visits Iraq ahead of troop pullout
BAGHDAD (AP) ― Vice President Joe Biden arrived on a surprise visit to Iraq late Tuesday in a trip designed to chart a new relationship between the two countries after all American forces have left the country in just over a month.After nearly nine years of war, the U.S. now must navigate a future without American troops in Iraq. Iraq’s vast oil resources, the massive U.S. Embassy presence here and Iraq’s strategic location in the Middle East ― next to Iran ― ensure American interest will remain
Nov. 30, 2011
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Norway killer found insane, unfit for prison
OSLO (AP) ― Confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik belongs in psychiatric care instead of prison, Norwegian prosecutors said Tuesday after a mental evaluation declared him legally insane during a bomb-and-shooting rampage that killed 77 people.The court-ordered assessment found that the self-styled anti-Muslim militant was psychotic during the July 22 attacks, which would make him mentally unfit to be convicted and imprisoned for the country’s worst peacetime massacre.The report, written b
Nov. 30, 2011
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Ivory Coast’s ex-president to face ICC
THE HAGUE (AP) ― A plane believed to be carrying former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo landed early Wednesday in the Netherlands ahead of his transfer to the International Criminal Court.The Ivorian plane arrived at Rotterdam The Hague Airport shortly before 4 a.m. and taxied to a hangar where it was met by a convoy of black cars.The international court did not immediately confirm that Gbagbo was on the plane. But its arrival at the airport close to the outskirts of The Hague and the waiti
Nov. 30, 2011
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Psychiatric evaluation finds Norway killer insane
Anders Behring Breivikwww.freak.noOSLO, Norway (AP) — Confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik was insane when he killed 77 people in a bomb and shooting rampage in Norway, and should be sent to a psychiatric ward instead of prison, prosecutors said Tuesday.A psychiatric evaluation ordered
Nov. 30, 2011
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China’s first aircraft carrier starts second trial
BEIJING (AFP) ― China’s first aircraft carrier began its second sea trial on Tuesday after undergoing refurbishment and testing, the government said, amid heightened regional tensions over maritime territorial disputes.The 300-meter ship, a refitted former Soviet carrier called the Varyag, underwent five days of trials in August that sparked international concern about China’s widening naval reach.“China’s aircraft carrier platform, after successfully completing its first sea trial in August, re
Nov. 29, 2011
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Violence, late ballots may mar critical Congo vote
KINSHASA (AP) ― Voting materials arrived late or sometimes not at all in precincts throughout the country, but Congo’s elections went ahead, raising doubts about the legitimacy of a poll that already has seen at least nine people killed and could drag sub-Saharan Africa’s largest nation back into conflict.Country experts and opposition leaders had urged the government to delay Monday’s vote due to massive logistical problems. Some districts of Congo, which has suffered decades of dictatorship an
Nov. 29, 2011
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‘25% of global land highly degraded’
ROME (AP) ― The United Nations has completed the first-ever global assessment of the state of the planet’s land resources, finding in a report Monday that a quarter of all land is highly degraded and warning the trend must be reversed if the world’s growing population is to be fed.The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that farmers will have to produce 70 percent more food by 2050 to meet the needs of the world’s expected 9 billion-strong population. That amounts to 1 billion tons
Nov. 29, 2011
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Divergent views signal tough climate talks
Developing countries push for extension of Kyoto Protocol, wealthy states against itDURBAN, South Africa (AP) ― With heat-trapping carbon at record levels in the atmosphere, U.N. climate negotiations opened Monday with pressure building to salvage the only treaty limiting greenhouse gas emissions.The U.S., Europe and the developing countries laid out diverging positions at the outset, signaling tough talks ahead even as South African President Jacob Zuma called for national interests to be laid
Nov. 29, 2011
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Winner of $254 million Powerball comes forward
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) - Three asset managers from Connecticut's affluent New York suburbs claimed a $254 million Powerball jackpot on Monday off a $1 ticket.Gregg Skidmore, Brandon Lacoff and Tim Davidson came forward as trustees for The Putnam Avenue Family Trust, which they formed after Davidson
Nov. 29, 2011
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Is tech friend or foe to Santa Claus?
NEW YORK (AP) _ Kids can video chat with Santa, follow him on Twitter or enlist NORAD to track his every move online. And yet in many ways, technology may be making it harder for parents to keep their children believing in the jolly old elf.At nearly every turn, the Internet threatens to blow the fa
Nov. 29, 2011
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Strauss-Kahn supporters seek probe on conspiracy
PARIS (AP) ― Supporters of disgraced former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn on Sunday appealed to French authorities to investigate new allegations that President Nicolas Sarkozy’s conservative political party may have improperly accessed his personal email.The online appeal from the support group “Club DSK” follows a report published Saturday in The New York Review of Books that has triggered new speculation about a possible conspiracy aimed at damaging Strauss-Kahn.That report, citing unident
Nov. 28, 2011
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Prince William joins Irish Sea rescue mission
LONDON (AP) ― Prince William joined a frantic search and rescue mission Sunday after a cargo ship sank in the Irish Sea, leaving several members of the Russian crew missing. The second in line to the British throne, who is a Royal Air Force helicopter and known professionally as Flight Lt. William Wales, was aboard an aircraft which rescued two crew members early Sunday, after their vessel’s hull cracked in gale force winds off the coast of north Wales.Britain’s defense ministry said William had
Nov. 28, 2011
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Occupy deadline comes, many say they won’t go
LOS ANGELES (AP) ― Hundreds of Occupy Los Angeles protesters showed no sign they planned to move Sunday ahead of a city-imposed midnight deadline to abandon their encampment, saying they would instead hold an “eviction block party.’’Although city officials have told demonstrators they must leave the weeks-old protest site and take their nearly 500 tents with them by 12:01 a.m. Monday, just a handful were seen packing up Sunday.Instead, some passed out fliers containing the city seal and the word
Nov. 28, 2011
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German police clear sit-in at nuke protest
BERLIN (AP) ― German police cleared a sit-in of thousands of protesters attempting to block a shipment of nuclear waste and temporarily detained 1,300 people Sunday, officials said.Hundreds of officers started evicting protesters from the rail lines near Dannenberg in the north of the country in the morning, police spokesman Stefan Kuehm-Stoltz said.Those who refused to leave were detained on site for several hours, but all were eventually released by late afternoon. Only those who refused to di
Nov. 28, 2011