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Opposition-led Assembly unilaterally passes bill to probe Marine's death
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Golden chance to liquidate babies’ gold rings?
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Inflation eases in April, continues bumpy ride
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Russia sent more than 165,000 barrels of refined petroleum to N. Korea in March: White House
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Seoul to more than double military drones by 2026 to counter NK threats
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Key suspects grilled over alleged abuse of power in Marine death inquiry
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Seoul alerts overseas missions to NK terror threats
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Over 60% of S. Koreans support W100m childbirth incentive: survey
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‘Inside Out 2’ adds four new emotions, explores teenage life
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Questions raised over fair promotion of RM, NewJeans
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Bus-train crash kills 11, injures 212 in Argentina
BUENOS AIRES (AP) ― A bus driver gambled and tried to rush across railroad tracks Tuesday despite a barrier, bells and flashing lights, setting off a chain-reaction collision with two trains that killed 11 people and injured hundreds in Argentina’s capital.The shocking accident, captured on video, c
Sept. 14, 2011
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Attack on U.S. Embassy, NATO HQ in Kabul
KABUL (AP) ― Teams of insurgents firing rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons struck at the U.S. Embassy, NATO headquarters and other buildings in the heart of the Afghan capital Tuesday and Wednesday, raising fresh doubts about the Afghans’ ability to secure their nation as U.S. and other
Sept. 14, 2011
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Axe-wielding man kills two children, four adults in China
BEIJING (AFP) - A farmer with mental health problems killed six people, two of them children, with an axe as they made their way to a kindergarten in China Wednesday, the local government and media reports said.The incident is the latest in a series of violent assaults on children involving people w
Sept. 14, 2011
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Abuse victims seek int‘l court case against pope
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Clergy sex abuse victims upset that no high-ranking Roman Catholic leaders have been prosecuted for sheltering guilty priests have turned to the International Criminal Court, seeking an investigation of the pope and top Vatican cardinals for possible crimes agains
Sept. 14, 2011
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NATO airstrikes pound pro-Gadhafi targets in Libya
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) _ NATO warplanes pounded targets in a number of strongholds of support for fugitive dictator Moammar Gadhafi, the alliance said Tuesday, as an offensive by revolutionary forces on a key loyalist town stalled. The alliance said Tuesday that airstrikes stru
Sept. 13, 2011
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Korean women use invention to overcome barriers
Creative housewives discover that they can be successful in the business worldLee Bok-hui used to wonder what happened to all the leftover stones she saw lying around construction sites. Now she knows exactly where a percentage of those leftovers go ― into an eco-friendly sheeting-material used to r
Sept. 13, 2011
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Palestinians’ U.N. gambit could spur changes
JERUSALEM (AP) ― Many Israelis are dismissing the Palestinians’ efforts to win international recognition of their independence at the United Nations this month as merely symbolic.But the Palestinians hope the high-profile maneuvering, on a grand global stage, might yield results that have eluded the
Sept. 13, 2011
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At least 75 people killed in Kenya pipeline explosion
NAIROBI (AP) ― Joseph Mwangi hoped and prayed his children had escaped the inferno caused when a leaking gasoline pipeline exploded, sending flames racing through a Nairobi slum and killing at least 75 people.Then he saw two small blackened bodies in the wreckage of his home.“Those were my children,
Sept. 13, 2011
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9/11’s 10th anniversary commemorated in N.Y.
NEW YORK (AP) ― Exactly 10 years ago, ground zero was a smoking, fire-spitting tomb, a ghastly pile of rubble and human remains. On Monday it was a place of serenity ― an expanse of trees and water in the middle of a bustling city ― as the 9/11 memorial opened to the public.As they walked through a
Sept. 13, 2011
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Cameron urges U.K., Russia to mend trade ties
MOSCOW (AP) ― British Prime Minister David Cameron declared Monday that Russia and Britain must set aside bitter disputes over the poisoning death of a Kremlin critic in London five years ago to nurture new trading ties and help promote world stability in the wake of the Arab uprisings.Cameron was i
Sept. 13, 2011
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Blast at French nuclear site kills 1, injures 4
Officials deny radioactive leak, but world’s most nuclear-dependent nation cautious in wake of Fukushima disasterPARIS (AP) ― An explosion at a nuclear waste facility in southern France has killed one person and injured four others. Authorities said there was no radioactive leak, but critics urged F
Sept. 13, 2011
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Libyan woman guided NATO bombs to Gaddafi targets
Sept. 13, 2011
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Interim P.M. warns Libya battle not over
Sept. 9, 2011
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Dutch woman calls ex-boyfriend 65,000 times
AMSTERDAM (AP) — Dutch prosecutors are charging a 42-year-old woman with stalking after she allegedly called her ex-boyfriend 65,000 times in the past year.The 62-year-old victim from The Hague filed a police complaint in August due to the persistent phone calls. Police arrested the suspected
Sept. 9, 2011
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'I'm gonna die:' 9/11 horror in victims' own words
NEW YORK (AFP) -- They called on God and they called for human help, but in the end the victims who phoned from 9/11's inferno knew there was no one to hear their screams.Most of the nearly 3,000 people blown apart on September 11, 2001, when hijackers turned four planes into missiles against
Sept. 9, 2011
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Youth sex crime victims increase 41% from 2007
The number of minors who fell victim to sexual abuse soared more than 40 percent over the past four years, government data showed Thursday, prompting calls for better measures to protect young people. According to the data collected by the National Police Agency, 6,185 adolescents aged 12-19 suffere
Sept. 8, 2011
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10 years on, security needs work: report
WASHINGTON (AP) ― Nearly 10 years after the September 2001 terror attacks, the U.S. government has significantly improved homeland security but still lacks a system to know who is leaving the country and exactly what is inside luggage checked at airports, according to a congressional audit.The repor
Sept. 8, 2011
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No closure for familes of 9/11 victims
NEW YORK (AP) ― His family has his spare firefighter uniform, but not the one he wore on 9/11 ― or any other trace of him.Killed at the World Trade Center, 32-year-old Scott Kopytko’s remains were never recovered ― a painful legacy of grief for families looking for answers, closure or final confirma
Sept. 8, 2011
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A decade later, 9/11 still affects Americans’ lives
WASHINGTON (AP) ― The significance of Sept. 11 has not waned for many Americans, even a decade after the attacks.A new poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research in Chicago finds that more Americans today say Sept. 11 had an impact on their lives than said so five years ago
Sept. 8, 2011
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Egypt’s military ruler to testify in Mubarak trial
CAIRO (AP) ― The judge in the trial of Hosni Mubarak on Wednesday summoned the top members of Egypt’s ruling military council to testify in closed sessions, a move Egyptians have eagerly hoped for, expecting the top generals will expose the ousted leader’s role in putting down protests against his r
Sept. 8, 2011