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No plan to let doctors with foreign licenses practice here anytime soon: PM
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Ador CEO's dismissal to be decided on last day of May
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[Graphic News] Beer the most favored alcoholic drink by Koreans
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Science Ministry expresses regret over Japan’s pressure on Naver
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Haeundae Beach to become sand art museum in late May
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Medical professors set to take day off amid protracted walkouts by junior doctors
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Hostilities get out of hand as YouTuber murders another outside courthouse
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Police officer jumps barefoot into drainage tunnel to save man
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Lee Sun-kyun's posthumuous film to hit theaters in August
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State-led adoption system to be established to ensure adoptees' well-being, minimize overseas adoption
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Still undecided, Palin rails against Obama
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (AP) ― Sarah Palin left open the possibility of a presidential bid Monday afternoon, while encouraging tea party activists to unite against President Barack Obama.And the former Alaska governor praised Republican presidential candidates for working harder to appeal to the t
World NewsSept. 6, 2011
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Japan urges China to play fair globally
TOKYO (AP) ― Japan’s new foreign minister said Monday that the international community should encourage China to observe global rules and play fair rather than become a threat.Koichiro Genba said the Asia-Pacific region is a center of growth but also a source of instability. Tokyo has expressed caut
World NewsSept. 6, 2011
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U.N. declares famine in another Somali region
MOGADISHU (AP) ― A famine spreading through Somalia is killing more than a hundred children each day, the U.N. said Monday, and warned that hundreds of thousands more people may die in the coming months unless they receive urgent help.The starvation is mostly taking place out of sight of the world m
World NewsSept. 6, 2011
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Syria makes arrests in manhunt for defector
BEIRUT (AP) ― Syrian soldiers raided homes and made arrests Monday in a manhunt for a provincial attorney general who appeared on video last week saying he had defected from President Bashar Assad’s regime to protest a violent government crackdown on dissent, activists said.Also Monday, the head of
World NewsSept. 6, 2011
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Mubarak trial witness: no order to shoot protesters
CAIRO (AP) ― The prosecution’s first witness in the trial of ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak startled the court in a stormy session Monday, testifying that police were not ordered to fire on protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square in a contradiction of the prosecutors’ central claim.The police g
World NewsSept. 6, 2011
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Al-Qaida dealt another blow as senior leader captured
ISLAMABAD (AP) ― A battered al-Qaida suffered another significant blow when Pakistani agents working with the CIA arrested a senior leader believed to have been tasked by Osama bin Laden with targeting American economic interests around the globe, Pakistan announced Monday.Younis al-Mauritani’s arre
World NewsSept. 6, 2011
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Experts suspect Iran in Dutch hacking
AMSTERDAM (AP) ― Hackers who broke into a web security firm issued hundreds of bogus security certificates for spy agency websites including the CIA as well as for Internet giants like Google, Microsoft and Twitter, the Dutch government said Monday.Information Technology experts say they suspect the
World NewsSept. 6, 2011
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Turkey to expel Israeli diplomats, feud deepens
ANKARA (AP) ― Turkey deepened its rift with Israel on Monday by vowing to work for the recognition of a Palestinian state at the United Nations and by saying it has notified high-level Israeli diplomats they have two days to leave the country.Late last week, Turkey expelled the Israeli ambassador af
World NewsSept. 6, 2011
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Wildfire spreads in Texas, destroys nearly 500 homes
BASTROP, Texas (AP) ― A roaring wildfire raced unchecked Monday through rain-starved farm and ranchland in Central Texas, destroying nearly 500 homes during a rapid advance fanned in part by howling winds from the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee.At least 5,000 people were forced from their homes in B
World NewsSept. 6, 2011
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Obama urges approval of jobs program
U.S. president says Republicans should place country’s interest above all elseDETROIT (AP) ― President Barack Obama used a boisterous Labor Day rally on Monday to put congressional Republicans on the spot, challenging them to place the country’s interests above all else and vote to create jobs and p
World NewsSept. 6, 2011
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Giant crocodile captured alive in Philippines
MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Villagers and veteran hunters have captured a one-ton saltwater crocodile which they plan to make the star of a planned ecotourism park in a southern Philippine town, an official said Monday. In this photo taken Sunday, Sept. 4, 2011, Mayor Cox Elorde of Bunawan township,
Sept. 6, 2011
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Newborn fatally mauled by family dog near Houston
HOUSTON (AP) — A two-week-old Houston-area boy has died after being mauled by the family dog.The incident happened Saturday night as the baby sat in an infant carrier on the floor of a room in the family house. Harris County sheriff's spokesman Thomas Gilliland says the dog, a Labrador mix, be
World NewsSept. 6, 2011
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Water gun fight in a park? Iran sees dark designs
TEHRAN (AP) -- Iran is trying to put down a new wave of civil disobedience -- flash mobs of young people who break into boisterous fights with water guns in public parks. A group of water fighters was arrested over the weekend, and a top judiciary official warned Monday that “counter-revolutio
Sept. 6, 2011
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World is safer 10 years after 9/11: EU, NATO
The world is safer today than in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks on the United States, with global terror groups weaker than 10 years ago, senior EU and NATO officials said Monday.A decade after Al-Qaeda traumatized the United States, the terror network has lost its leader, Osama bin Laden
World NewsSept. 6, 2011
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Many U.S. schools adding iPads, trimming textbooks
HARTFORD, Connecticut (AP) ― For incoming freshmen at western Connecticut’s suburban Brookfield High School, hefting a backpack weighed down with textbooks is about to give way to tapping out notes and flipping electronic pages on a glossy iPad tablet computer.A few hours away, every student at Burl
World BusinessSept. 5, 2011
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Murdoch turns down $6m bonus over hacking
LOS ANGELES (AP) ― News Corp.’s 38-year-old heir apparent, James Murdoch, says he’s declining his $6 million bonus for the past fiscal year because of the phone hacking scandal at the British tabloid he oversaw as an executive.Even without the bonus, he was awarded a pay package totaling $11.5 milli
World BusinessSept. 5, 2011
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Chinese students join Taiwan universities despite strict rules
About 1,000 Chinese students are joining their Taiwanese counterparts at college campuses here today, as the new academic year starts.They are the first mainlanders to study here as full-time degree students under a new initiative that the Taiwanese authorities hope will boost cross-strait understan
World NewsSept. 5, 2011
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Talks fail, Libyan rebels ready to strike loyalists
NATO bombs military targets near Sirte overnightTARHOUNA, Libya (AP) ― Negotiations over the surrender of one of Moammar Gadhafi’s remaining strongholds have collapsed, and Libyan rebels were waiting for the green light to launch their final attack on the besieged town of Bani Walid, a spokesman sai
World NewsSept. 5, 2011
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Kurdish MPs push for autonomy in Turkey
ANKARA (AP) ― Kurdish legislators vowed Sunday to press on with a boycott of Turkey’s parliament and backed a recent declaration of autonomy in the country’s Kurd-dominated southeast. The defiant stances came as Kurdish rebels killed six people while military airstrikes targeted their hideouts.The d
World NewsSept. 5, 2011
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Israel P.M. won’t apologize to Turkey for flotilla deaths
JERUSALEM (AP) ― Israel’s leader defiantly refused on Sunday to apologize to Turkey for a deadly Israeli raid on a Turkish-led flotilla bent on breaching Israel’s Gaza Strip blockade ― an incident that has battered a relationship once seen as a cornerstone of regional stability.In his first public r
World NewsSept. 5, 2011