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Blinken calls on China to press N. Korea to end its 'dangerous' behavior
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New celebrity-endorsed therapy for face contouring requires only a pair of rubber bands
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[Weekender] How DDP emerged as an icon of Seoul
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Tensions heighten ahead of first president-opposition chief meeting
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Doctor group's incoming head renews call for govt. to scrap medical school quota hike for dialogue
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Seoul to provide housing subsidy to married couples with newborns
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[Music in drama] An ode to childhood trauma
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'The Roundup: Punishment' becomes fastest 2024 film to top 2 mln admissions
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Rapper jailed after public street fight with another rapper
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New head of doctors' association vows war in case of disadvantage to medical professors
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Japan faces many challenges in 2012
The world is in a nearly continuous state of crisis.In Europe, a sovereign debt crisis has ballooned into a financial crisis that is shaking the world economy. The United States is beset by huge budget deficits. These problems have slowed down the economies of China and India.Despite warnings from economists that the value of government bonds could nosedive unless state finances are put on a surer footing, politicians have been unable to persuade their constituents to shoulder additional burdens
World NewsJan. 2, 2012
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Luxury cars gearing up China business
Wang Yubing, a marketing manager at a Fortune 500 multinational company in Shanghai, recently began thinking about quitting his respectable and secure job to start a business.The 34-year-old, who has a master’s degree in business administration from the United States, wants to become an entrepreneur in his hometown, Shenmu, a coal-rich county in Yulin, a city in Northwest China’s Shaanxi province.“When I went back to my home to visit my relatives during the National Day holiday in October, all o
World NewsJan. 2, 2012
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K-pop fever grips youth in Singapore
Young Singaporeans wanting to be K-pop stars now have more avenues to test their luck and talent.Alpha Entertainment Group, a Singapore-based talent management company, plans to hold more auditions here.Recently, an Alpha Entertainment audition saw more than 800 participants turn up at Management Development Institute of Singapore for the chance to become a K-pop star.Alpha Entertainment Group has fully owned subsidiaries in places such as South Korea and Hong Kong, and the company held a joint
World NewsJan. 2, 2012
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Israeli, Palestinian negotiators to meet
JERUSALEM (AP) ― Israel and the Palestinians said Sunday that their chief peace negotiators would attend a gathering of international diplomats in neighboring Jordan this week, bringing the sides together for the first time in more than a year.Officials stressed that the meeting would not be a formal negotiating session. Nonetheless, it could mark an important step toward restarting peace talks, which broke down in September 2010.“The upcoming meeting is part of serious and continuous efforts to
World NewsJan. 2, 2012
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Arabs want to pull monitors out of Syria
CAIRO (AP) ― A pan-Arab body called Sunday for the immediate withdrawal of the Arab League monitors in Syria because President Bashar Assad’s regime has kept up killings of government opponents even in the presence of the observers.The 88-member Arab Parliament said that Arabs are angered by the Syrian regime’s ongoing killings while the nearly 100 monitors are in the country. The monitors are supposed to be ensuring Syria complies with terms of the League’s plan to end the 9-month-old crackdown
World NewsJan. 2, 2012
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Looking for new kidney? Try Facebook
SEATTLE (AP) -- Here’s another reason for holdouts to join the social media site Facebook: It’s a great place to find a kidney.Between the children’s photos and reminiscences about high school, more and more pleas for help from people with failing kidneys are popping up. Facebook and other social media sites are quickly becoming a go-to place to find a generous person with a kidney to spare, according to the people asking for help and some national organizations that facilitate matches.Damon Bro
World NewsJan. 2, 2012
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‘French breast implants more dangerous than anticipated’
LONDON (AFP) ― Britain’s biggest cosmetic surgery chain has revealed that rupture rates on allegedly faulty French-made breast implants are seven times higher than previously thought, a report said Sunday.The new data from Transform, reported in the Sunday Telegraph newspaper, has prompted Health Secretary Andrew Lansley to order an urgent review into the data used to assess the risks to 42,000 British women given the implants. The firm’s figures suggest one in 14 implants made by French manufac
World NewsJan. 2, 2012
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Australian cancer blogger dies
SYDNEY, Jan 2, 2012 (AFP) - An Australian cancer patient who shot to global attention after a tribute video for his wife went viral on the Internet died on Monday in hospital, his family said.Kristian Anderson, 36, and his young family wound up on television after US talk show queen Oprah Winfrey le
World NewsJan. 2, 2012
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Dead blackbirds fall again in Arkansas town
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Thousands of dead blackbirds rained down on a town in central Arkansas last New Year's Eve after revelers set off fireworks that spooked them from their roost, and officials were reporting a similar occurrence Saturday as 2012 approached.Police in Beebe said dozens of
World NewsJan. 2, 2012
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Child sacrificed, liver offered to gods: Indian police
RAIPUR, India (AFP) - A seven-year-old Indian girl was murdered in a tribal sacrifice and her liver offered to the gods to improve crop growth, police in the central state of Chhattisgarh said on Sunday. File illustration photo shows villagers of Dantewada District in the central state of Chhattisga
World NewsJan. 2, 2012
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Report: Toxic homebrew kills 16 in India
NEW DELHI (AP) _ An official says at least 16 people have died after drinking a toxic home-brewed liquor over the weekend in southern India.Gaurav Uppal, a top district administrator, says another 24 poor villagers are being treated in hospitals in the Krishna district in Andhra Pradesh state. An In
World NewsJan. 2, 2012
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World rings in 2012, bids adieu to a tough year
PARIS (AP) ― With glittering fireworks and celebrations from New Zealand to Times Square, the world eagerly welcomed a new year and hope for a better future Saturday, saying goodbye to a year of hurricanes, tsunamis and economic turmoil that many would rather forget.Revelers in Australia, Asia, Europe and the South Pacific island nation of Samoa, which jumped across the international dateline to be first to celebrate, welcomed 2012 with booming pyrotechnic displays. Fireworks soared and sparked
World NewsJan. 1, 2012
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Gas and other fuels are top U.S. export
NEW YORK (AP) ― For the first time, the top export of the United States, the world’s biggest gas guzzler, is ― wait for it ― fuel. Measured in dollars, the nation is on pace this year to ship more gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel than any other single export, according to U.S. Census data going back to 1990. It will also be the first year in more than 60 that America has been a net exporter of these fuels.Just how big of a shift is this? A decade ago, fuel wasn’t even among the top 25 exports. And
World BusinessJan. 1, 2012
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Obama hopeful for progress of economy
President Barack Obama, saying he’s “hopeful” for 2012 after a year that brought the beginnings of an economic recovery, called on Congress to extend a payroll tax cut for a full year to help Americans struggling to improve their lives. “I’m hopeful because of what we saw right before Christmas, when members of Congress came together to prevent a tax hike for 160 million Americans ― saving a typical family about $40 in every paycheck,” Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address from Hon
World BusinessJan. 1, 2012
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Afghan child bride tortured by in-laws
KABUL (AFP) ― An Afghan child bride Saturday spoke of how she was tortured by her mother-in-law who locked her in a toilet for six months, beat her, pulled out her fingernails and burned her with cigarettes.Sahar Gul, 15, is recovering in hospital in Kabul, her face bruised and swollen, her skin still bearing the marks of her ordeal, barely able to speak.Police have said she was locked up when she defied her in-laws who tried to force her into prostitution. Her brother had sold her to her husban
World NewsJan. 1, 2012
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Syria’s rival opposition groups unite against Assad
BEIRUT (AP) ― Syria’s two largest opposition groups signed an agreement on setting up a democracy if President Bashar Assad’s autocratic regime falls, opposition figures said Saturday.The move is so far the most serious by the fractured opposition to unite against the regime and shows that Assad’s opponents will accept nothing less than his departure from power.Burhan Ghalioun, leader of the Syrian National Council, and Haytham Manna of the National Coordination Body for Democratic Change in Syr
World NewsJan. 1, 2012
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Divided U.N. council welcomes new members
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) -- Five new countries on Sunday join a U.N. Security Council driven by one of the biggest international splits in years on how to handle the Arab Spring uprisings.Azerbaijan, Guatemala, Morocco, Pakistan and Togo start two year terms on the council which has been wounded by air strikes in Libya and is battling over President Bashar Assad’s deadly crackdown in Syria. Growing tensions around Iran add to the nerves on the 15-member body.“It is like the Cold War,” said one Weste
World NewsJan. 1, 2012
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Iran backs off threat to close oil route
TEHRAN (AP) ― Talk of blocking the strategic oil route through the Strait of Hormuz is a discussion of the past, a commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said Saturday in comments that seemed to back away from an earlier threat. But he said Iran had other, unspecified strategies for reacting to any Western aggression.“Discourse about closing the Strait of Hormuz belongs to five years ago. Today’s debate in the Islamic Republic of Iran contains new layers and the time has not come to raise it,”
World NewsJan. 1, 2012
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Man dies from bird flu in China
BEIJING (AFP) ― A bus driver in southern China who contracted the bird flu virus died Saturday, health authorities said, in the nation’s first reported human case of the deadly disease in 18 months.The man, surnamed Chen, died in Shenzhen ― a boomtown that borders Hong Kong where thousands of chickens have already been culled after three birds tested positive for the H5N1 avian influenza virus in mid-December.He developed a fever on Dec. 21 and was taken to hospital four days later, and diagnose
World NewsJan. 1, 2012
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NASA probe enters lunar orbit
PASADENA, California (AP) ― A NASA spacecraft fired its engine and slipped into orbit around the moon Saturday in the first of two back-to-back arrivals over the New Year’s weekend.Ground controllers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory erupted in cheers and applause after receiving a signal that the Grail-A probe was healthy and circling the moon. An engineer was seen on closed-circuit television blowing a noisemaker to herald the New Year’s Eve arrival.“This is great, a big relief,” deputy pr
World NewsJan. 1, 2012