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President Yoon Suk Yeol defiant as impeachment momentum grows
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Ruling party leader says impeachment against Yoon now only solution
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Yoon’s martial law defense fans impeachment calls from his party
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Cho Kuk sentenced 2 years, loses seat, shot at presidency
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Foreign spies and compromised election system: Yoon seeks to rally the right
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Full text of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's address to the nation on Thursday
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Diverging exec shakeups: Samsung backs veterans; Hyundai rings changes
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Assembly vote on Yoon Suk Yeol's impeachment set for 4 p.m. Saturday
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Opposition leader urges ruling party lawmakers to vote for Yoon Suk Yeol impeachment
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Protesters in standoff with police near Yoon's residence
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Milky Way teeming with 'billions' of planets
This handout picture from the European Southern Observatory is an artist`s impression on how planets are more common than stars in the Milky Way. The new study provides evidence that there are more planets than stars in our own stellar neighbourhood. (AFP)PARIS (AFP) -- The Milky Way is home to far
Jan. 12, 2012
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Red wine researcher accused of falsifying data
HARTFORD, Connecticut (AP) -- A U.S. university says a researcher known for his work on red wine's benefits to cardiovascular health falsified his data in more than 100 instances. (Bloomberg)Nearly a dozen scientific journals are being warned of the potential problems after publishing the Unive
Jan. 12, 2012
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Your home’s age important for child lead exposure
WASHINGTON (AP) ― If you’ve been putting off repairing a peeling windowsill, or you’re thinking of knocking out a wall, listen up: Check how old your house is. You may need to take steps to protect your kids from dangerous lead.The risk of lead-based paint from older homes is back in the news, as the government considers tightening the definition of lead poisoning in babies, toddlers and preschoolers. Lower levels than previously thought may harm their developing brains.That’s a scary-sounding m
Jan. 12, 2012
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Mobile app provides instant nutrition information
If you are at a supermarket, wondering if a food item will make you fat, a new smartphone app by Korea Food and Drug Administration can tell you.The newly released application, New High-fat and Less Healthy Food Alert-e, contains information about the nutritional value of nearly all popular snacks, candies and ice creams. By simply scanning the barcodes on snack packages, the app will automatically tell whether the food is healthy or not. And by inputting a product name or a main ingredient, con
Jan. 12, 2012
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Women with larger breasts suffer backaches: hospital
Women with larger breasts are more likely to suffer backaches than those with smaller breasts, TnTn Hospital said Monday. According to Cho Tae-yeon, chief of the network hospital specializing in spinal health, larger breasts could pull the torso forward and in the worst case cause a herniated disk. A herniated disk is a condition when the disk between two bones in the spine presses on the nerves around the backbone.“One additional kilogram on the torso, especially in the chest area, could amplif
Jan. 12, 2012
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Alcohol releases addictive endorphin: study
Drinking alcohol helps to release endorphins in areas of the brain that produce feelings of pleasure and reward, a study found.According to the study led by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, endorphin release in the nucleus accumbens and orbitofrontal cortex in response to
Jan. 12, 2012
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Samsung eyes 15% growth in TV sales this year
(Yonhap News)Samsung Electronics Co., South Korea's tech behemoth, said Thursday it aims to increase its sales of televisions by around 15 percent this year by boosting its entire lineup of TVs.Yoon Boo-keun, president of Samsung's TV business, was quoted as saying at a consumer electronics show in
Jan. 12, 2012
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Company announces low-cost DNA decoding machine
NEW YORK (AP) _ A biotechnology company announced it has developed a machine to decode an individual's DNA in a day for $1,000, a long-sought price goal for making the genome useful for medical care.Life Technologies Corp. said Tuesday it was taking orders for the technology, which it expects to del
Jan. 12, 2012
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Tablets, ultrabooks hot items at CES
LAS VEGAS ― The chief of the Consumer Electronics Association said Wednesday that tablet PCs are becoming a tremendously competitive field in the industry, since the device has turned into an office item for many firms. “Tablets are transformational products and something that has developed really quickly,” said Gary Shapiro, president and chief executive of CEA, a U.S. trade association that has over 2,000 members in the consumer electronics industry. This year’s Consumer Electronics Show in La
Jan. 11, 2012
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El Gordo: A 'fat' distant galaxy cluster
An extremely hot, massive young galaxy cluster -- the largest ever seen in the distant Universe -- has been studied by an international team using ESO's Very Large Telescope in the Atacama Desert in Chile along with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Atacama Cosmology Telescope. The new
Jan. 11, 2012
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Samsung Electronics’ 2011 sales rank first in world
Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest maker of memory chips and No. 2 handset maker, posted the largest revenue among global tech firms last year on the back of strong sales of smartphones, a financial information provider said Tuesday.Samsung Electronics’ 2011 sales reached $148.6 billion when its yearly revenue was converted into the dollar, according to data compiled by FnGuide Inc. The company estimated on Friday that it posted a record operating profit of 5.2 trillion won ($4.5 billi
Jan. 10, 2012
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Government to keep watch on falling satellite
As a Russian Mars probe that stalled in orbit may fall to the Earth sometime next week, the government announced Tuesday that it would broadcast its location real time on the websites of related agencies and via Twitter until its crash.The 13.2-ton probe named Phobos-Grunt, launched last November, w
Jan. 10, 2012
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Hawking: Mankind must colonize space
(AP)British physicist Stephen Hawking says mankind faces the threat of nuclear annihilation and should build colonies on Mars and beyond.Hawking made the remarks on a radio program to mark his 70th birthday, responding to questions submitted by listeners, The Daily Telegraph reported Friday."It is p
Jan. 10, 2012
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Nicotine could ward off memory loss: study
Older adults who are starting to have problems with memory may benefit from small amounts of nicotine therapy, according to a US study published on Monday.The research in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, included 74 non-smokers with an average age of 76. Half were
Jan. 10, 2012
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Apple CEO Tim Cook could top pay list in 2011
LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Tim Cook could well end up being the highest paid CEO in America in 2011, after Apple Inc. granted him a million restricted stock units last August for taking the reins shortly before cofounder Steve Jobs died. An Associated Press review of a securities filing shows Cook's pay pac
Jan. 10, 2012
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Global warming delays natural patterns of glaciation, researchers say
Unprecedented levels of greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere are disrupting normal patterns of glaciation, scientists said.The Earth's current warm period that began about 11,000 years ago should give way to another ice age within about 1,500 years, according to the study published online Jan.
Jan. 10, 2012
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Healthy eating may help ADHD kids: U.S. study
WASHINGTON (AFP) ― Simply eating healthier may improve the behavior of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder if therapy and medication fail, said a study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics.Researchers, however, said that their review of recent controlled scientific studies had shown conflicting evidence on the impact of supplements and restricted diets ― in some cases they were no better than the placebo effect.Nutritional interventions should therefore be considered an
Jan. 9, 2012
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Red wine may reduce breast cancer risk
Red wine may reduce one risk factor for breast cancer, challenging the widely-held belief that alcohol increases breast cancer, U.S. researchers say.Bottles of wine are displayed on a shelf at the Capercaillie Wine Co. cellar in Lovedale, in the Hunter Valley region of Australia, on Tuesday, O
Jan. 9, 2012
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Samsung Electronics sweeps Russian mobile handset market
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Yonhap) -- Samsung Electronics Co., the world's second-largest handset maker, swept the Russian mobile phone market, ranking first in four categories in November last year, a research firm said Monday.Samsung Electronics took first place in the Russian mobile phone market in terms of
Jan. 9, 2012
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Tiny wires could usher new computer era
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Scientists said Thursday they have designed tiny wires, 10,000 times thinner than a human hair but with the same electrical capacity as copper, in a major step toward building smaller, more potent computers.The advance, described in the US journal Science, shows for the firs
Jan. 8, 2012
