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[Newsmaker] Algal blooms stoke ecological concerns

A thick green tide spreading across Korea’s major rivers due to low water flow and warm temperatures is stoking concerns over the ecosystem and public health. Since mid-May, algal blooms have been s...

July 6, 2015
National
65 years after the Korean War, tension, scars still deep

Breaking the predawn serenity, the areas just south of the 38th parallel were engulfed with roaring cannons and flames on June 25, 1950, as North Korea launched a coordinated attack from coast to coa...

June 24, 2015
National
5,000 migrants rescued in Med since Friday: Frontex

WARSAW (AFP) -- More than 5,000 migrants have been rescued in the Mediterranean since Friday, according to Frontex, the European Union's border agency. The rescue mission, which started Friday, focu...

May 31, 2015
World News
Barclays launches review after FIFA probe: source

LONDON (AFP) -- Barclays has launched an internal review into whether its accounts were used for corrupt payments by FIFA officials, a banking source told AFP on Sunday. It comes after the British b...

May 31, 2015
World News
U.N. envoy decries Syria regime raids as dozens killed

BEIRUT (AFP) -- The UN envoy to Syria condemned regime bombing of civilian areas as "totally unacceptable" after more than 90 people were killed in a day of heavy air raids. Across the border in Ira...

May 31, 2015
World News
Schools reopen in quake-devastated Nepal

KATHMANDU (AFP) -- Thousands of children, many still traumatised from losing homes and loved ones, returned to class Sunday as Nepal's schools formally reopened following a devastating earthquake tha...

May 31, 2015
World News
Japan vigilant for 'Big One' after powerful quake

TOKYO (AFP) -- Seismologists Sunday warned Japan to stay vigilant for the next "Big One" after a powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of the quake-prone nation, injuring a dozen peo...

May 31, 2015
World News
Rain of little relief to south India; heat toll nears 2,200

HYDERABAD, India (AP) -- Despite hopes that weekend thundershowers would help end a raging heat wave in southern India, the rain brought only limited relief as the death toll since mid-April approach...

May 31, 2015
World News
Australia to continue South China Sea surveillance

Australia will continue its surveillance flights over the disputed South China Sea and insists on unhindered access to the area’s trading routes, Defence Minister Kevin Andrews said. “We have been s...

May 31, 2015
Foreign Policy
Police seek arrest warrant for man for flag burning

Police have sought an arrest warrant for a South Korean man on charges of burning the national flag during last month's ceremony marking the first anniversary of the Sewol ferry sinking, officials sa...

May 31, 2015
Social affairs
Kerry breaks leg in bike crash; ends overseas trip early

GENEVA (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry broke his leg in bike crash Sunday, apparently after hitting a curb, and scrapped the rest of a four-nation trip that included an international confe...

May 31, 2015
World News
Nations ground A400M planes after deadly Spain crash

MADRID (AFP) -- Britain, Germany and Turkey grounded their Airbus A400M military transport planes Sunday after one crashed in Spain, killing four people, as authorities hailed passers-by who rescued ...

May 10, 2015
World News
China cuts rates for 3rd time in 6 months to boost economy

BEIJING (AP) -- China cut interest rates Sunday for the third time in six months to boost sluggish economic growth and announced that it is giving banks more flexibility in setting rates paid to depo...

May 10, 2015
World Business
South African opposition party elects first black leader

JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- South Africa's main opposition group on Sunday chose its first black leader at a party congress, seeking to expand its appeal in a country whose ruling party has dominated since ...

May 10, 2015
World News
Five killed in Swiss shooting

GENEVA (AFP) -- Five people were killed in a shooting in northern Switzerland, police said Sunday, rocking the normally tranquil nation. The shooter in the drama that played out on Saturday evening ...

May 10, 2015
World News

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