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Court refuses injunction on medical school expansion
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Why Korean crime stories typically feature nameless, faceless perpetrators
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Debate on 'no-seniors zones' heats up
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Rare mid-May heavy snow warning issued over mountainous areas of Gangwon
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S. Korea, Cambodia forge strategic partnership
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Is NewJeans headed for a long 'break'?
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[KH Explains] Hyundai-backed Motional’s struggles deepen as Tesla eyes August robotaxi debut
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Police raid popera singer Kim Ho-joong's house over hit-and-run suspicions
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Trump may like to 'solve' N. Korean nuclear problem if reelected: ex-official
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New Seoul High Prosecutors’ Office chief vows full-fledged probe into first lady
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Iranian uranium to go into nuclear plant by Feb.
TEHRAN (AFP) ― Iran is to insert its first domestically produced uranium fuel into its Tehran reactor by mid-February, Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said in comments published by the IRNA state news agency on Thursday.“Within the next two months the first fuel plate which is produced with the 20 percent enriched uranium will be placed in Tehran’s research reactor,” Salehi, who previously headed Iran’s nuclear organisation, was quoted as saying.His statement was an excerpt from a longer inter
World NewsDec. 16, 2011
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France’s Jacques Chirac convicted of corruption
PARIS (AP) ― As French president, Jacques Chirac was called all sorts of names, not the least for his vociferous opposition to the U.S.-led war in Iraq. Now, he has a moniker that will stick: Convicted criminal.The avuncular 79-year-old on Thursday became France’s first former leader to be convicted since Marshal Philippe Petain, who headed the Nazi collaborationist regime during World War II, in 1945. Chirac will not go to prison, but received a two-year suspended sentence for corruption linked
World NewsDec. 16, 2011
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Russia circulates new U.N. draft on Syria
UNITED NATIONS (AP) ― Russia surprised fellow U.N. Security Council members on Thursday with a proposed new resolution to address the rising violence in Syria.Western members of the council who have been pressing for tough measures against President Bashar Assad’s regime welcomed the move, but said it didn’t go far enough because it didn’t include an arms embargo or other sanctions.Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said the text calls for an end to the violence that the U.N. estimates has killed
World NewsDec. 16, 2011
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U.S. formally ends Iraq war with little fanfare
Panetta touches on losses: Nearly 4,500 Americans, 100,000 Iraqis killed in 9 years of warBAGHDAD (AP) ― Nearly nine years after American troops stormed across the Iraq border in a blaze of shock and awe, U.S. officials quietly ended the bloody and bitterly divisive conflict here Thursday, but the debate over whether it was worth the cost in money and lives is yet unanswered.While many of the speeches painted a picture of victory ― for both the troops and the Iraqi people now set on a path for d
World NewsDec. 16, 2011
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Morgan Stanley to cut 1,600 jobs globally in 2012
Morgan Stanley, the financial firm whose shares have declined 45 percent this year, plans to cut about 1,600 jobs amid an industrywide drop in revenue from investment banking and trading.Reductions will occur in the first quarter of 2012 at all levels of the firm, Mark Lake, a company spokesman, said in an interview Thursday. The figure amounts to about 2.6 percent of the 62,648 employees New York-based Morgan Stanley had at the end of September.Chief Executive Officer James Gorman is grappling
World BusinessDec. 16, 2011
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Unemployment claims at 3.5-year low in U.S.
WASHINGTON (AP) ― The job market is healthier than at any time since the end of the Great Recession.The number of people filing for unemployment benefits fell last week to the lowest since May 2008, a sign that the waves of corporate layoffs that have defined the past few years are all but over.“This is unexpectedly great news,” said Ian Shepherdson, an economist at High Frequency Economics.It will take an additional step ― robust hiring, not just the end of layoffs ― to bring the 8.6 percent un
World BusinessDec. 16, 2011
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US research shows hands-free phones just as risky
WASHINGTON (AP) _ When someone is talking to you, your brain is listening, processing and thinking about what is being said _ even if you are in the driver's seat trying to concentrate on traffic.That is why drivers get distracted during cellphone conversations, even when using hands-free phones, re
World NewsDec. 16, 2011
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Palm-sized baby, 2nd smallest in US, is growing
LOS ANGELES (AP) _ At birth, Melinda Star Guido was so tiny she could fit into the palm of her doctor's hand. Weighing just 9 1/2 ounces (.26 kilograms), she is among the smallest babies ever born in the world. Most infants her size don't survive, but doctors are preparing to send her home by New Ye
World NewsDec. 16, 2011
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Shots fired near Chinese consulate in Los Angeles: police
LOS ANGELES, Dec 15, 2011 (AFP) - Shots were fired at or near the Chinese consulate in Los Angeles on Thursday, but no one was injured, police said, adding that an Asian suspect was being sought."It was a shooting at the building" housing the consulate general, which is between downtown LA and Holly
World NewsDec. 16, 2011
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PC Air set for Laos flights
Small private airline PC Air says it will begin operating charter flights this month with Bangkok-Vientiane service and will start serving China next month.Originally the charter service was to take off around the middle of this year or in the third quarter, but factors such as the flood disaster fo
World NewsDec. 16, 2011
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Iranian uranium to go into nuclear plant mid-February
Iran is to insert its first domestically produced high enriched uranium into its Tehran reactor by mid-February, Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said in comments published by the state IRNA news agency on Thursday.The announced deadline could sharpen international tensions over Iran's controversia
World NewsDec. 16, 2011
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Gates rules out return to Microsoft helm
SYDNEY (AFP) -- Bill Gates on Thursday ruled out ever returning to the helm of Microsoft while dismissing criticism by late Apple founder Steve Jobs, who he called “brilliant.”Gates, in Sydney for a family holiday, said recent rumors that he was considering a full-time comeback to the U.S. software giant he founded, but stepped back from in 2006, were untrue.In an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald, he said he was busy working with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ”and that will be what
World BusinessDec. 15, 2011
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OPEC agrees to increase oil production
OPEC decided to increase its production ceiling to 30 million barrels a day, the first change in three years, moving the group’s target nearer to current output as it grapples with rising exports from post-war Libya. The new quota is for all members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, including Iraq and Libya, and compares with actual November production from those 12 nations of 30.37 million barrels a day, according to OPEC estimates. The target will be reviewed at its next me
World BusinessDec. 15, 2011
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Business confidence loses: BOJ
TOKYO (AP) ― A key central bank survey showed Thursday that confidence at major Japanese manufacturers fell over the last quarter, as the export-reliant country battled a strong yen and an increasingly precarious global economy.In the Bank of Japan’s “tankan” survey of business sentiment, the main index for big manufacturers fell to minus 4, in the first deterioration in two quarters. Three months ago, it stood at 2.The figure represents the percentage of companies saying business conditions are
World BusinessDec. 15, 2011
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Japanese baby survives 10-floor fall
TOKYO (AFP) - A Japanese baby survived a 10-floor fall virtually unscathed after being deliberately dropped by his father from their apartment on Thursday, reports said. (Bloomberg)The one-year-old boy landed in some shrubbery at the bottom of the building, where he was found in tears by police offi
Dec. 15, 2011
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Bootleg liquor kills 102 people in India
KOLKATA, India (AP) ― A tainted batch of bootleg liquor killed 102 people and sent dozens more to the hospital in villages outside the eastern Indian city of Kolkata, officials said.Day laborers and other poor workers began falling ill late Tuesday after drinking the brew that was laced with the toxic methanol around the village of Sangrampur, about 30 kilometers south of Kolkata, according to district magistrate Narayan Swarup Nigam.“It’s a very sad thing that this has happened. Why don’t the p
World NewsDec. 15, 2011
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China vows crackdown on leaders of village revolt
BEIJING (AP) ― China’s government has vowed to crack down on the leaders of a revolt in a southern village and investigate local officials over land seizures at the heart of the residents’ unhappiness.China News Agency says the acting mayor of Shanwei city told reporters Wednesday that strong measures would be taken against villagers in Wukan who instigated others to create trouble and damage public property.Thursday’s report also says the mayor promised to investigate village officials for wron
World NewsDec. 15, 2011
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Papua New Guinea in political deadlock
PORT MORESBY (AP) ― Papua New Guinea politics were deadlocked Thursday, with two men claiming to be prime minister, two governments saying they hold power, rival police chiefs maintaining the peace ― and no one sure who actually was in charge.The power struggle in the most populous South Pacific island nation has exasperated the public and prompted union leaders to call on both men claiming to be prime minister to find a solution before the situation worsens.The country’s Supreme Court and Gover
World NewsDec. 15, 2011
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U.S. defense chief vows to continue intelligence operations in Afghanistan
KABUL (AP) ― U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Wednesday the U.S. will continue to conduct intelligence operations from Afghanistan like the recent mission that led to the loss of a drone over Iran, and he gave an upbeat assessment of the unpopular war.Standing with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Panetta provided a cryptic response to questions about the lost drone, which has exposed details of the little-known U.S. intelligence and surveillance efforts aimed at Iran.But the Pentagon chie
World NewsDec. 15, 2011
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U.N. urges world to take action on Syria
Ban: Act ‘in the name of humanity’; U.S. says Assad regime is ‘dead man walking’DAMASCUS (AFP) ― U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon urged world powers on Wednesday to act “in the name of humanity” against Syria’s crackdown on dissent, as a U.S. official likened the Damascus regime to a “dead man walking.”Activists said Syrian forces killed another 21 civilians on a day when the U.S. State Department’s special coordinator on Middle East affairs Frederic Hof told U.S. lawmakers that “change is surely coming
World NewsDec. 15, 2011