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Contentious grain bill put directly to plenary meeting for vote
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Yoon's approval rating plunges to all-time low
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Will tug-of-war between doctors, government end soon?
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Climate impacts set to cut 2050 global GDP by nearly a fifth
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Trilateral talks acknowledge ‘serious’ slumps of won, yen
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[Graphic News] More Koreans say they plan long-distance trips this year
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[KH Explains] Hyundai's full hybrid edge to pay off amid slow transition to pure EVs
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North Korea removes streetlights along cross-border roads with South
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Russia's denial of entry of S. Korean national unrelated to bilateral ties: Seoul official
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Farming households dip below 1m for first time in 2023
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Europe’s leftists shown the exit amid crisis
As financial crisis wears on, doubts on socialists’ ability to handle economy growsMADRID (AP) ― Throw a dart at a map of Europe now and it takes expert aim to hit a country run by a left-of-center government, especially after Spain’s Socialists were emphatically drubbed out of power over the weekend.Although the shift to the right began years ago in such heavyweights as France and Germany, it is now all but complete three years into the continent’s grinding debt and economic crisis. Why? When t
Nov. 22, 2011
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Rape, murder of teen shocks France
France is reeling after a 17-year-old boy raped and murdered a girl at a chic boarding school while conditionally freed on charges of rape a year ago."It's absurd. It could have been avoided with a little less negligence," the dead 13-year-old's mother, Paola Marin, told Europe 1 radio as a nation s
Nov. 22, 2011
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Ai Weiwei and editor of China paper in online spat
BEIJING, Nov 22, 2011 (AFP) - Ai Weiwei fans have again rallied behind the outspoken Chinese artist after he revealed he is being investigated on pornography charges -- by posting naked pictures of themselves online.Supporters of Ai -- who disappeared into custody for 81 days earlier this year -- ra
Nov. 22, 2011
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Peru finds 14th century mass grave of children
LIMA, Nov 20, 2011 (AFP) - A Peruvian archeologist on Sunday announced the discovery of the remains of 44 infants and young children sacrificed to appease ancient deities in the 14th century at a site in the high Andes near the border with Bolivia.The remains were found near a stone funeral tower --
Nov. 22, 2011
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Report: Pfizer to settle bribery probe
Pfizer Inc. will pay at least $60 million to settle allegations by the U.S. government that the drugmaker paid bribes to win overseas business, according to The Wall Street Journal.The paper, citing “people familiar with the matter,” said in an article published to its website Sunday that settlements are expected to be made public by the end of the year.In April, health care giant Johnson & Johnson agreed to pay $70 million to settle civil and criminal charges of bribing doctors in Europe and pa
Nov. 21, 2011
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Marines recall Yeonpyeong shelling with new perspective
YEONPYEONG ISLAND (Yonhap News) ― To this day, Marine captain Kim Jeong-soo still remembers the sound.“It was as if dinosaurs were stomping on the ground,” Kim said, recalling the fateful day almost a year ago. “The moment was straight out of the film ‘Jurassic Park.’”But when bombs shook this tiny island in the Yellow Sea, it wasn’t part of any Steven Spielberg movie. Right before their eyes, the soldiers and residents were witnessing the first direct attack on South Korea by the North in almos
Nov. 21, 2011
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Libyans will try Gadhafi son; former spy chief caught
ZINTAN, Libya (AP) ― Libya’s new leaders said Sunday they will try Moammar Gadhafi’s son at home and not hand him over to the International Criminal Court where he’s charged with crimes against humanity. The government also announced the capture of the toppled regime’s intelligence minister, who is also wanted by the court.In one of several emerging complications, however, the former rebel faction that captured Seif al-Islam Gadhafi a day earlier is refusing to deliver him to national authoritie
Nov. 21, 2011
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Israel: Time has come to act on Iran
WASHINGTON (AFP) ― The “time has come” to deal with Iran, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Sunday, refusing to rule out military action to curb the Islamic republic’s nuclear ambitions.Barak, speaking on CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS program, indicated that Israel’s patience was wearing thin ― and provided an ominous response when asked about the growing speculation of an Israeli military strike.“I don’t think that that is a subject for public discussion,” he said. “But I can tell you that th
Nov. 21, 2011
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End of era? Putin greeted with catcalls at a match
MOSCOW (AP) ― Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was greeted by catcalls when he stepped into the ring after a mixed martial arts fight at a Moscow arena on Sunday night.The whistles and shouts, heard clearly on the live television broadcast, were an unprecedented rebuke as Putin prepares to return to the presidency next year. A judo enthusiast, Putin has long been an admirer of Russian heavyweight mixed martial artist Fedor Emelianenko and came to see him take on American Jeff Monson.After E
Nov. 21, 2011
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Police officers in pepper spray incident placed on leave
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ― A California university placed two of its police officers on administrative leave Sunday because of their involvement in the pepper spraying of passively sitting protesters, while the school’s chancellor accelerated a task force’s investigation into the incident amid calls for her resignation.The president of the 10-campus University of California system also weighed in on the growing fallout from Friday’s incident at UC Davis, saying that he is “appalled” at images of stude
Nov. 21, 2011
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Al-Qaida sympathizer arrested in New York
NEW YORK (AP) ― An “al-Qaida sympathizer” accused of plotting to bomb police and post offices in New York City as well as U.S. troops returning home has been arrested on numerous terrorism-related charges.Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced at a news conference Sunday the arrest of Jose Pimentel of Manhattan, “a 27-year-old al-Qaida sympathizer” who the mayor said was motivated by terrorist propaganda and resentment of U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said poli
Nov. 21, 2011
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Spanish center-right party cruises to power
With unemployment skyrocketing, Spaniards oust ruling socialistsMADRID (AP) ― Spain’s center-right conservatives swept convincingly into power and into an economic hot seat Sunday as voters enduring 21.5 percent unemployment dumped the ruling Socialist government ― the third time in as many weeks that Europe’s debt crisis has toppled an administration.The vote in the country with the eurozone’s highest jobless rate and a center-stage spot in Europe’s debt crisis saga came as the continent’s trou
Nov. 21, 2011
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Myanmar's Suu Kyi to run in parliamentary polls
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) _ Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi intends to run for parliament in upcoming by-elections.The decision announced Monday was expected after her party decided last week to rejoin mainstream politics in long-isolated Myanmar.Nyan Win, the spokesman of Suu Kyi's National League
Nov. 21, 2011
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Moscow martial arts fans greet Putin with catcalls
MOSCOW (AP) _ Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was greeted by catcalls when he stepped into the ring after a mixed martial arts fight at a Moscow arena on Sunday night.The whistles and shouts, heard clearly on the live television broadcast, were an unprecedented rebuke as Putin prepares to retu
Nov. 21, 2011
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Suspect in NYC bomb plots arrested
NEW YORK (AP) -- An ``al-Qaida sympathizer'' who plotted to bomb police and post offices in New York City as well as U.S. troops returning home has been arrested on numerous terrorism-related charges, city officials said Sunday.Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced at a news conference the Saturday arre
Nov. 21, 2011
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U.S. overtures may lure Myanmar away from China
WASHINGTON (AP) ― The first visit to Myanmar in a half-century by the top U.S. diplomat opens a door for that nation’s military-dominated government to reduce its international isolation and dependence on a staunch but mistrusted ally: China.Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will travel to Myanmar, also known as Burma, on Dec. 1-2, to meet with government and opposition leaders. It is the culmination of a two-year effort to engage with a repressive regime the U.S. had long shunned.Washin
Nov. 20, 2011
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Obama gets little pushback on Asia trip
BALI, Indonesia (AP) ― An assertive President Barack Obama got much of what he wanted during his Asia-Pacific trip because the results didn’t depend on negotiating with the world.He mostly just announced them.Obama expanded the U.S. military presence in southeast Asia, sent tough signals to China in its backyard, ordered his top diplomat on a breakthrough mission to Myanmar and presided over the jobs-creating sale of Boeing planes to an Indonesian airline company.It was a trip on his terms, unli
Nov. 20, 2011
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Cambodia set for trials on ‘Killing Fields’ criminals
PHNOM PENH (AFP) ― The long-awaited trial of top Khmer Rouge leaders accused of genocide and other atrocities finally gets under way in Cambodia on Monday, but one of the four accused will be notably absent.More than three decades after the country’s “Killing Fields” era, a U.N.-backed war crimes court is set to hear opening statements in the case against “Brother Number Two” Nuon Chea, ex-head of state Khieu Samphan and former foreign minister Ieng Sary.Led by “Brother Number One” Pol Pot, who
Nov. 20, 2011
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Clashes erupt ahead of Egypt vote, killing 2
CAIRO (AP) ― Egyptian riot police firing tear gas and rubber bullets stormed into Cairo’s Tahrir Square Saturday to dismantle a protest tent camp, setting off clashes that killed two protesters, injured hundreds and raised tensions days before the first elections since Hosni Mubarak’s ouster.The scenes of protesters fighting with black-clad police forces were reminiscent of the 18-day uprising that forced an end to Mubarak’s rule in February. Hundreds of protesters fought back, hurling stones an
Nov. 20, 2011
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Seif al-Islam Gadhafi captured in Libya
Trial for heir to former dictator presents major test for new government’s commitment to human rightsZINTAN, Libya (AP) ― Moammar Gadhafi’s former heir apparent Seif al-Islam was captured by revolutionary fighters in the southern desert Saturday just over a month after his father was killed, setting off joyous celebrations across Libya and closing the door on the possibility that the fugitive son could stoke further insurrection.Seif al-Islam ― who has undergone a transformation from a voice of
Nov. 20, 2011