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Korean labor force to shrink by 10 million by 2044: report
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[AtoZ Korean Mind] Does your job define who you are? Should it?
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Allegations surrounding BTS resurface, enraged fans demand apology
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Students with history of violence will be barred from becoming teachers
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Top prosecutor pledges 'speedy, strict' probe into first lady's luxury bag allegations
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Medical feud leaves hospitals in financial crisis
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Samsung mocks Apple over iPhone alarm glitch
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'Queen of Tears' riding high on Netflix chart
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Chip up cycle won’t stay long: SK chief
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Speaker floats dual citizenship as solution to falling births
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Obama steps up campaign against high fuel costs
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President Barack Obama on Tuesday stepped up his campaign over politically damaging high gasoline prices, calling on Congress to eliminate $4 billion dollars in subsidies to oil industry giants."There are steps we can take to ensure the American people don't fall victim to skyrocketing gas prices over the long term," said Obama in a letter to top Republican and Democratic lea
April 27, 2011
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NATO hit on headquarters squeezes Gadhafi
Libyan spokesman denounces bombing as failed assassination attemptTRIPOLI (AP) ― The latest NATO airstrike on Moammar Gadhafi’s compound that reduced parts of it to a smoldering ruin steps up pressure on the increasingly embattled Libyan leader as he struggles to hold onto the western half of the country.A Libyan government spokesman denounced Monday’s bombing as a failed assassination attempt, sa
April 26, 2011
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Weight loss gone wrong
KUALA LUMPUR: A 30-year-old man spent RM80,000 on a weight loss programme but ended up having 30 open wounds, with one as big as a fist, around his waistline.The man, who only wanted to be known as Lim, said he got to know about the “needleless injection” treatment when a friend suggested that they enter into the cosmetics business in October 2009.“Initially, I was not interested, but after much p
April 26, 2011
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Taliban tunnel more than 480 out of Afghan prison
An Afghan policemen takes a look at the opening of tunnel at the main prison in Kandahar, Afghanistan which prisoners escaped through Monday, April 25, 2011. Taliban insurgents dug a more than 1,050-foot (320-meter) tunnel underground and into the main jail in Kandahar city and whisked out more than 450 prisoners, most of whom were Taliban fighters, officials and the insurgents said Monday. (AP-Yo
April 26, 2011
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Termites eat up millions in Indian bank
Police in India are investigating a case where 10 million rupees ($222,000) were reportedly missing after a raid. Those who broke into the steel chest at the bank were not human but termites.According to a report by the Telegraph, the termites had been damaging bank furniture and documents before they broke into the storage where the money had been preserved since January.“It’s a matter of investi
April 26, 2011
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Yemen’s Saleh left with room for movement
April 25, 2011
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At least 500 dead in Nigeria election riots
BAUCHI, Nigeria (AP) ― At least 500 people died in religious rioting that followed Nigeria’s presidential election, a civil rights group said Sunday, as volatile state gubernatorial elections loom this week.Meanwhile, police in the northern state of Bauchi said at least 11 recent college graduates who helped run polling stations as part of the country’s national youth service corps have been kille
April 25, 2011
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Taliban break more than 450 out of Afghan prison
Afghan and NATO forces secure the entrance of the police headquarters after a Taliban suicide attack killed the police chief of southern Afghanistan's Kandahar province, Khan Mohammad Mujahid and his two bodyguards, in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Friday April 15, 2011. (AP-Yonhap News)KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) _ Taliban insurgents dug a more than 1,050-foot (320-meter) tunnel underground and into the
April 25, 2011
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Body parts found in upscale Mexico City district
Police stand around a warning message painted on a banner left near the site where five dismembered bodies were found on the sidewalk next to a car in the Pacific resort city of Acapulco, Mexico. There are a half dozen words for drug cartel informants, and double that for drug war dead. "Narco" has become a general prefix. The trend has people worrying that Mexico is developing a kind of offhand j
April 25, 2011
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Syria targets activists in pinpoint raids
A Syrian protester holds up a Syrian national flag during a demonstration attended by Syrians living in Jordan against Bashar's government and the ruling Baath Party in front of Syrian embassy in Amman, capital of Jordan, on April 24, 2011. (Xinhua-Yonhap News)BEIRUT (AP) _ Syrian security forces detained dozens of opposition activists and fired from rooftops in a seaside town Sunday as authoritie
April 25, 2011
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More than 120 dead in Syria unrest
BEIRUT (AP) ― Syrian security forces fired on funeral processions that drew tens of thousands Saturday, one day after the bloodiest crackdown so far in the uprising against President Bashar Assad. The shootings pushed the two-day death toll to more than 120 and two lawmakers and a religious leader resigned in disgust over the killings.The resignations were a possible sign of cracks developing in t
April 24, 2011
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Yemeni president agrees to resign in 30 days
Parliament will grant Saleh legal protection; power to be handed to vice presidentSANAA (AP) ― Yemen’s embattled president agreed Saturday to a proposal by Gulf Arab mediators to step down within 30 days and hand power to his deputy in exchange for immunity from prosecution, a major about-face for the autocratic leader who has ruled for 32 years.A coalition of seven opposition parties said they al
April 24, 2011
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Yemeni president agrees to step down in 30 days
SANAA, Yemen (AP) - Yemen's embattled president agreed Saturday to a proposal by Gulf Arab mediators to step down within 30 days and hand power to his deputy in exchange for immunity from prosecution, a major about-face for the autocratic leader who has ruled for 32 years.A coalition of seven opposition parties said they also accepted the deal but with reservations. Even if the differences are ove
April 24, 2011
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British couples share royal wedding spotlight
LONDON (AP) _ What is it like getting married on the same day as Prince William and Kate Middleton? As the royal wedding looms, hundreds of harried couples across Britain are trying to figure out how to share the spotlight with the world's most-watched couple.Sharon Hannon, 37, said she was initially upset when she saw her own wedding date being flashed across the television screen underneath a pi
April 24, 2011
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U.S. sends drones to Libya
April 22, 2011
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Blast kills 16 as Pakistan vows to defeat terror
KARACHI (AFP) ― At least 16 people were killed and more than 30 wounded in a blast at a gambling den in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi late Thursday, senior police and government officials said.The explosion ripped through the city’s biggest gambling complex, known as the Rummy Club, senior government official Sharfuddin Memon said.“It was a homemade bomb placed in a packet inside the cl
April 22, 2011
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Japan seals off no-go zone around nuclear plant
FUTABA, Japan (AP) ― Japan sealed off a wide area around a radiation-spewing nuclear power plant Friday to prevent tens of thousands of residents from sneaking back to the homes they quickly evacuated, some with little more than a credit card and the clothes on their backs.Fearing they might not see their homes again for months, evacuees raced into the deserted towns Thursday before the ban took e
April 22, 2011
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Prayers test Assad’s response to protests
April 22, 2011
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U.N. chief: More nuclear accidents likely
KIEV (AP) ― The world must prepare for more nuclear accidents on the scale of Chernobyl and Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi plant, the U.N. chief warned, saying that grim reality will demand sharp improvements in international cooperation.U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and others portrayed the growth of nuclear power plants as inevitable in an energy-hungry world as they spoke at a Kiev conference W
April 21, 2011
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Pop star declared Haiti president
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) ― Michel Martelly, a Haitian popular singer known by the stage name “Sweet Micky,” was officially declared the earthquake-devastated country’s next president, election officials said Wednesday.A spokesman for Haiti’s electoral commission, Pierre Thibault, said Martelly won the presidency with 67.57 percent of the vote, defeating rival candidate Mirlande Manigat.The announcement
April 21, 2011