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Court refuses injunction on medical school expansion
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Is NewJeans headed for a long 'break'?
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Jimin of BTS, actor Song Da-eun suspected to be dating, again
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Police raid popera singer Kim Ho-joong's house over hit-and-run suspicions
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What's next for the government's push in quota hike?
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Trump may like to 'solve' N. Korean nuclear problem if reelected: ex-official
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Kepco to raise electricity prices as total debt soars past W200tr
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Woman falls to death from acquaintance's home after exhibiting ‘unexplained' behaviors
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N. Korea slams planned S. Korea-US military drills, warns of 'catastrophic aftermath'
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N. Korea fires short-range ballistic missiles toward East Sea: JCS
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Russia, China nearing agreement on gas: Putin
BEIJING (AFP) -- Moscow and Beijing are nearing the "final stage" of negotiating a huge gas deal delayed for years by disagreements on price, Russia's prime minister said Tuesday during a visit to Beijing.Vladimir Putin made the comments after meeting Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on the first day of t
World NewsOct. 11, 2011
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Ukraine's Tymoshenko sentenced to 7 years in jail
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Tuesday was found guilty of abuse of office and sentenced to seven years in jail, in a trial widely condemned in the West as politically motivated.Judge Rodion Kireyev also barred Tymoshenko, now the country's top opposit
World NewsOct. 11, 2011
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Two Americans win Nobel Prize in economics
PRINCETON, New Jersey (AP) ― Christopher Sims and Thomas Sargent have no simple solutions to the global economic crisis. But the work that won them the Nobel Prize in economics Monday is guiding central bankers and policymakers in their search for answers.The two Americans, both 68, were honored for
World NewsOct. 11, 2011
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American woman tries to steal fetus, ends up killing mother and baby
MILWAUKEE (AP) ― A woman who faked a pregnancy and panicked as her supposed due date grew near attacked a pregnant mother with a baseball bat and cut her full-term fetus from her womb, killing the mother and baby, according to court documents filed Monday.Annette Morales-Rodriguez, 33, faces one cou
World NewsOct. 11, 2011
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Iron lady: She ran marathon, gave birth on same day
CHICAGO (AP) ― Amber Miller felt contractions just minutes after crossing the finish line at the Chicago Marathon. A few hours later, the suburban Chicago woman ― who slogged her way through 26.2 miles while nearly 39 weeks pregnant ― delivered a healthy baby girl.“For me, it wasn’t anything out of
World NewsOct. 11, 2011
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Mexico’s Pacific coast braces for hurricane
BARRA DE NAVIDAD, Mexico (AP) ― People left low-lying shore neighborhoods, hotels dragged in beach furniture, officials set up shelters and one of Mexico’s biggest cargo ports shut down as powerful Hurricane Jova headed for a Tuesday landfall near this Pacific resort.Jova was a Category 3 hurricane
World NewsOct. 11, 2011
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Russian PM Putin in China seeking closer ties
BEIJING (AP) -- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Chinese leaders opened two days of meetings Tuesday aimed at boosting relations amid strains over declining military sales and stalled talks over energy deals.Putin said after meeting with Premier Wen Jiabao that political relations between t
World NewsOct. 11, 2011
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String of blasts in Iraq capital kills 10
BAGHDAD (AP) ― A string of explosions targeting security officials ― and people who rushed to the scene to help the injured ― killed at least 10 people in western Baghdad Monday evening, officials said.The first explosion came from a roadside bomb in a Shiite neighborhood, targeting an Iraqi army pa
World NewsOct. 11, 2011
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Merkel visits Vietnam to boost trade ties
HANOI (AP) ― German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrived in Vietnam’s capital Tuesday for a two-day visit to boost trade ties with the communist country, amid the European debt crisis.Merkel and her Vietnamese counterpart, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, reviewed an honor guard Tuesday in Hanoi before t
World NewsOct. 11, 2011
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Al-Qaida confirms killing of al-Awlaki
CAIRO (AP) ― Al-Qaida’s Yemeni offshoot on Monday confirmed the killing of U.S.-born militant cleric Anwar al-Awlaki late last month and vowed to avenge the prominent propagandist’s death.The 40-year-old al-Awlaki, who died in a Sept. 30 U.S. drone strike in the mountains of Yemen, was the most prom
World NewsOct. 11, 2011
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Myanmar gives amnesty to some 6,300 prisoners
YANGON (AP) -- Myanmar announced Tuesday it was releasing 6,300 prisoners in a widely expected amnesty by the newly elected government, but it was not clear how many of them were political detainees.The release of some of the country’s estimated 2,000 political prisoners has been hotly anticipated a
World NewsOct. 11, 2011
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Exploration company finds sunken ship of silver
TAMPA, Florida (AP) -- A Florida deep-sea exploration company with a record of finding sunken treasure has discovered a ship filled with silver 8,000 feet beneath the North Atlantic Ocean, the firm said Monday.Odyssey Marine Exploration Inc. said it found the remains of the SS Mantola, which sank on
Oct. 11, 2011
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EU backs Syrian opposition, mulls new sanctions
LUXEMBOURG (AP) ― The European Union is reaching out to the nascent Syrian opposition movement to see if it could play an instrumental role in ousting President Bashar Assad, whose crackdown on pro-democracy protesters has so far killed nearly 3,000 people.Diplomats said Syria’s opposition needs mor
World NewsOct. 11, 2011
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Jobs’ cause of death released as Apple mourns
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) ― The official cause of death for beloved Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was made public on Monday as a private memorial was planned at the company’s Silicon Valley headquarters for employees.Local public health officials reportedly determined that Jobs was at home in the Northern C
World BusinessOct. 11, 2011
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Detainees tortured in Afghanistan: U.N.
KABUL (AP) ― Beatings, electric shock and other forms of torture were administered to suspected Taliban fighters in some Afghan-run detention centers, the U.N. said Monday, even as the U.S. and others have spent billions of dollars training the police and security services.The abuse was not the resu
World NewsOct. 11, 2011
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Moody’s reviews Belgian regions for downgrade
BRUSSELS (AP) ― Belgium’s financial troubles appeared to mount Monday as Moody’s Investors Service announced it was putting the country’s three regions on review for a possible downgrade, along with three of their government-related issuers.The news followed Friday’s announcement that Moody’s was pu
World BusinessOct. 11, 2011
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Libyan official: Gadhafi hiding in southern desert
TRIPOLI (AP) ― An official on Libya’s governing council said Monday that he believes Moammar Gadhafi is hiding in the southwestern desert near the borders with Niger and Algeria, but denied allegations that the Tuareg minority ethnic group is protecting the fugitive leader.Moussa al-Kouni, who is a
World NewsOct. 11, 2011
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Egypt vows to get tougher after violence
A relative of one of the Copts killed during clashes with the Egyptian army mourns over his coffin in Cairo on Monday (AP-Yonhap News)Activists enraged by army’s apparent attempt to use crisis to extend ruleCAIRO (AP) ― Egypt’s ruling military on Monday condemned a surge in deadly violence as an at
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‘Thinking’ robot unveiled in Japan
TOKYO (AFP) ― Robots that learn from experience and can solve novel problems ― just like humans ― sound like science fiction.But a Japanese researcher is working on making them science fact, with machines that can teach themselves to perform tasks they have not been programmed to do, using objects t
World NewsOct. 11, 2011
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Judge sets $1 million bond in US fetal abduction
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- A woman who faked a pregnancy and panicked as her supposed due date grew near attacked a pregnant mother with a baseball bat and cut her full-term fetus from her womb, killing the mother and baby, according to court documents filed Monday.Annette Morales-Rodriguez, 33, faces one co
Oct. 11, 2011