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Debate rages over ‘overly fatty’ samgyeopsal
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40 flights canceled on Jeju Island due to bad weather
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[Weekender] Korean psyche untangled: Musok
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N. Korea slams US, other countries for seeking alternative to UN sanctions monitoring panel
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Pandemic left Korea more depressed than before: report
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Gov't appears to shelve punitive measures against mass walkout by doctors
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[Eye Interview] 'If you live to 100, you might as well be happy,' says 88-year-old bestselling essayist
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From fake prostitution ring to nonexistent robber, prank calls hamper police
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Missing S. Korean traveler in Paris found safe after 2 weeks
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S. Korea, China, Japan in talks to hold trilateral summit May 26-27: official
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Russia to resume manned spaceflight after many failures
MOSCOW (AFP) ― Russia on Monday launches three astronauts for the International Space Station on a key mission Moscow hopes will restore faith in its space program after an unprecedented string of failures.Two Russians and one American will blast off on a Soyuz-FG rocket from Russia’s Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 0414 GMT, the first manned launch since the retirement of the US shuttle made Russia the sole nation capable of taking humans to the ISS.It is also the first launch after an unm
Nov. 13, 2011
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Romney’s political shifts stir criticism
BOSTON (AP) ― When he was running for Massachusetts governor in 2002, Mitt Romney’s campaign courted voters at a Boston Gay Pride weekend by handing out fliers proclaiming “All citizens deserve equal rights, regardless of sexual preference.”Just a year later, Romney emerged as a leading voice against gay marriage, opposing the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s ruling overturning the ban on same-sex marriage.With Romney’s positions evolving on everything from abortion to gay rights, embryoni
Nov. 13, 2011
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Loss of No. 2 official will not change Mexico’s drug war
MEXICO CITY (AP) ― President Felipe Calderon said Saturday the loss of Mexico’s No. 2 official in a helicopter crash won’t weaken the offensive against drug cartels and, if anything, will toughen it.Speaking at a memorial service, Calderon said the best way to pay tribute to Interior Secretary Francisco Blake Mora and the seven others killed Friday when their aircraft smashed into a mountainside south of Mexico City is “to keep fighting with greater conviction for the things they fought for.”Bla
Nov. 13, 2011
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Suu Kyi’s return to politics likely
YANGON (AFP) ― Myanmar’s democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi is likely to contest an upcoming by-election, a party spokesman said Saturday, paving the way for a political comeback after years of exclusion by army generals.Her National League for Democracy, delisted last year for boycotting the first elections for 20 years, will consider on Friday whether to re-register as a political party, after Myanmar’s president recently approved changes to the registration laws.“The NLD is likely to register an
Nov. 13, 2011
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Fukushima plant: rubble amid progress
Tsunami-hit nuke plant revealed to outsiders for first time since tragedyOKUMA, Japan (AP) ― Two reactor buildings once painted in a cheery sky blue loom over the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant. Their roofs are blasted away, their crumbled concrete walls reduced to steel frames.In their shadow, plumbers, electricians and truck drivers, sometimes numbering in the thousands, go dutifully about their work, all clad from head to toe in white hazmat suits. Their job ― cleaning up the worst nu
Nov. 13, 2011
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Monti tipped to lead Italy after Berlusconi quits
ROME (AFP) - Italy starts forming a new government Sunday after the momentous resignation of Silvio Berlusconi, with economist Mario Monti tipped as the man to lead the country through its debt crisis.In this July 17, 2002 file photo, European Union Commissioner for Competition Mario Monti speaking
Nov. 13, 2011
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Newborn on Nigeria payroll, earning $150 a month
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- A newborn baby in Nigeria got added to a government payroll, earning about $150 a month for the last two or three years, a discovery indicative of the widespread corruption starving the oil-rich West African nation of much needed funds, authorities said Friday.The baby was one
Nov. 13, 2011
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Media allowed into Japan's tsunami-hit nuke plant
OKUMA, Japan (AP) _ Media have been allowed into Japan's tsunami-damaged nuclear power plant for the first time Saturday after the disaster in March touched off the world's worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl. Representatives of the Japanese and international media, includi
Nov. 12, 2011
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Greece, Italy turn to experts on debt
ATHENS (AP) ― Europe’s financial crisis eased as Greece installed a respected economist to replace its prime minister and Italy appeared poised to do the same ― both hoping that monetary experts can do better than the politicians who drove their nations so deeply into debt.The announcement Thursday in Athens ― coupled with the prospect that volatile Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will be ushered out soon ― quieted market fears, at least for now, that turmoil in Europe could threaten th
Nov. 11, 2011
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MF Global’s dive shows few changes on Wall Street
WASHINGTON (AP) ― After countless new rules designed to make Wall Street safer, it’s come to this: Another securities firm has collapsed from risky, poorly disclosed bets.Not enough, in other words, has changed since the U.S. financial system nearly toppled three years ago. The bankruptcy filing last week by MF Global Holdings Ltd. didn’t freeze lending and panic investors around the world, as Lehman Brothers’ did in 2008. But the rapid fall of the firm run by former Goldman Sachs chief Jon Corz
Nov. 11, 2011
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Stronger yuan vital for balanced global growth: U.S.
HONOLULU (AFP) ― The United States on Thursday urged China to allow the yuan to appreciate faster, saying stronger Asian currencies were vital to restoring global financial stability amid a European debt crisis.U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said after chairing a meeting of Asia Pacific finance ministers that a main focus of their talks was on how to help strengthen global economic growth and make it more balanced.“This process of rebalancing will be aided by exchange rate policies in Chin
Nov. 11, 2011
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Russia poised to join world trade body
After 18-year effort, Moscow finally gets go-ahead to join WTOGENEVA (AP) ― Russia cleared a major hurdle toward opening up its huge oil-driven economy Thursday, with negotiators agreeing to final terms that would allow it to join the World Trade Organization after an 18-year effort.The deal is expected to quickly inject 4 billion ($5.45 billion) euros a year into the ailing European economy by boosting European Union exports.The 27-nation bloc is Russia’s biggest trading partner for its agricul
Nov. 11, 2011
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Phil Mickelson easily enters Hall of Fame
Phil Mickelson will be inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in May after the four-time major tournament winner was elected with the highest voting percentage in a decade. Mickelson, the only player elected from the U.S. PGA Tour ballot, received 72 percent of the vote, the highest share since Greg Norman was elected with 80 percent in 2001, according to the hall. He will be inducted on May 7 in St. Augustine, Florida, three days before the start of the PGA Tour’s Players championship. “This
Nov. 11, 2011
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Woods emerges from slump to lead in Australia open
SYDNEY (AP) ― Tiger Woods walked off the golf course to see his name atop the leaderboard Friday in the Australian Open. Even more pleasing to him was the way he got there.With control of his shots and comfortable over the putter, Woods put together his best back-to-back rounds of the year with a 5-under 67 that gave him a one-shot lead among the early starters in the second round.If it holds up at the end of the day, it would be his first time in the lead after any round since the third day of
Nov. 11, 2011
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NBA labor talks break down again
NEW YORK (AP) ― NBA players broke off negotiations with the league Thursday night, saying there had not been enough progress to get a deal done to end the lockout.The league offered the players a revised offer after nearly 11 hours of bargaining, but union president Derek Fisher said it doesn’t address all the necessary system issues that are important to the players.“It does not meet us entirely on the system issues that we felt were extremely important to try and close this thing out, and so a
Nov. 11, 2011
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Civil suit filed over jailed IN swim coach
INDIANAPOLIS (AP)—The family of an Indiana teenager filed a civil lawsuit against USA Swimming and others Thursday, saying officials didn’t do enough to protect the girl from the sexual assaults by her coach.The suit, filed in Marion County Superior Court, levels accusations against the umbrel
Nov. 11, 2011
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Life in jail for China civil servant who threw wife off cruise ship
A civil servant who claimed he threw his ex-wifeto her death from a Hong Kong cruise ship to fulfill her wish for aburial at sea was Friday beginning a life sentence for murder.Chinese national Wang Weilie, 49, told police his wife YangWenjuan was suicidal and he thought she was dead when he threw h
Nov. 11, 2011
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Rhino subspecies vanishing from the wild
GENEVA (AP) — The Western Black Rhino of Africa has been declared officially extinct, and two other subspecies of rhinoceros are close to meeting the same fate, a leading conservation group said Thursday.The International Union for Conservation of Nature said a recent reassessment of the Weste
Nov. 11, 2011
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Chinese swarm to marry on lucky 11/11/11
Chinese couples flocked to registry offices to marry on Friday in the belief that the "11/11/11" date is the most auspicious in a century.November 11 has been celebrated as an unofficial "singles' day" in China since the 1990s -- as the date is composed of the number one -- and it is seen as a good
Nov. 11, 2011
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Papademos is new Greek PM, vows to stick with euro
ATHENS, Greece (AP) _ Greece appointed senior banker Lucas Papademos prime minister Thursday of an interim unity government that will seek to cement a European debt deal and stave off national bankruptcy.Chosen after four tortuous days of power-sharing talks, Papademos immediately called for unity a
Nov. 11, 2011