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Opposition-led Assembly unilaterally passes bill to probe Marine's death
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Inflation eases in April, continues bumpy ride
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Golden chance to liquidate babies’ gold rings?
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Seoul to more than double military drones by 2026 to counter NK threats
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Russia sent more than 165,000 barrels of refined petroleum to N. Korea in March: White House
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Seoul alerts overseas missions to NK terror threats
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Over 60% of S. Koreans support W100m childbirth incentive: survey
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‘Inside Out 2’ adds four new emotions, explores teenage life
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Key suspects grilled over alleged abuse of power in Marine death inquiry
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Questions raised over fair promotion of RM, NewJeans
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Pressure rises for Greek debt buy-back, swap
World BusinessJuly 18, 2011
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Indonesia volcano unleashes biggest eruption
TOMOHON, Indonesia (AP) ― A volatile volcano in central Indonesia unleashed its most powerful eruption yet Sunday, spewing hot ash and smoke thousands of feet (meters) into the air and sending panicked villagers racing back to emergency shelters. There were no immediate reports of casualties.Mount Lokon, located on northern Sulawesi island, has been dormant for years but rumbled back to life late
World NewsJuly 18, 2011
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Syria forces besiege town after defections
World NewsJuly 18, 2011
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Berlusconi faces hearings on bribery, sex crime
ROME (AFP) ― Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi faces trial hearings for bribery and paying for sex with a 17-year-old girl on Monday, as the Italian leader fights off growing unpopularity and financial woes.Berlusconi, 74, is a defendant in three ongoing trials.He had been due to attend one of them, the corruption hearing in which he stands accused of paying a bribe to his former British lawyer, Da
World NewsJuly 18, 2011
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Chavez chemotherapy raises re-election doubts
World NewsJuly 18, 2011
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Ratings agencies under attack amid debt crisis
PARIS (AFP) - Ratings agencies are again under attack, with EU leaders objecting that Standard&Poor's, Moody's and Fitch Ratings are an "oligopoly" which issues self-fulfilling prophecies of doom, greatly aggravating the eurozone debt crisis.The EU's Internal Markets Commissioner suggested a partial gag to prevent them from grading debt issued by EU economies being rescued with official funds.Ther
World BusinessJuly 18, 2011
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Pregnant lady suffers from bizarre eating disorder
Emma Veness, a 26-year-old pregnant woman in the U.K., feels compelled to eat furniture polish even though she knows her eating disorder could harm her baby. Veness has been diagnosed with a rare eating disorder named pica, and requires medical help according to reports.Her bizarre habits started when she ate bubbles while taking baths as a child. Ever since her pregnancy she began eating polish
July 18, 2011
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Russian girls urged to take off clothes to support Putin
An online campaign urging women to rip off their clothes in support for Vladimir Putin is spicing up Russia’s tense presidential race. The movement was launched by a group called “Putin’s Army,” which opened its homepage on Russia’s leading social-networking service, vkontakte.ru/armiaputina, over the weekend. A video clip on the site features three young women asking Russian girls to tear off the
World NewsJuly 18, 2011
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Mubarak, long-time pharaoh with recent health problems
CAIRO (AFP) -- Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, whose health was the subject of contradictory reports on Sunday two weeks before he was due to face trial on August 3 for murder and corruption, enjoyed near absolute power for three decades as president before being toppled in February.The health ministry denied a report that he had gone into a "full coma" at the hospital in Sharm el-Sheikh where he has been
World NewsJuly 18, 2011
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British police chief quits over phone-hacking scandal
LONDON (AFP) -- Britain's most senior police officer Paul Stephenson resigned on Sunday, citing allegations about Scotland Yard's links to Rupert Murdoch's empire amid the phone-hacking scandal."I have this afternoon informed the Palace, the Home Secretary and the Mayor of my intention to resign as Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service," Stephenson said in a statement.British police have
World NewsJuly 18, 2011
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Rebekah Brooks 'arrested' in phone hack probe: report
Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks has been arrested in connection with phone hacking at the News of the World newspaper, Sky News reported, citing sources.Scotland Yard said police have arrested a 43-year-old woman, without naming her. It is the tenth arrest so far over the scandal.The woman was arrested by appointment at a police station in London and is currently in custod
World NewsJuly 17, 2011
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Obama-Dalai Lama meeting angers China
U.S. President Barack Obama meets the Dalai Lama at the White House in Washington, D.C., Saturday. (White House photo)BEIJING (AP) ― China on Sunday slammed President Barack Obama’s meeting with the Dalai Lama as an act that has “grossly interfered in China’s internal affairs” and damaged Chinese-American relations.The strident statement from China’s Foreign Ministry came hours after Obama met wit
World NewsJuly 17, 2011
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S&P warns it may downgrade Fannie, Freddie credit ratings
WASHINGTON (AP) ― Standard & Poor’s warned mortgage lenders Fannie Me and Freddie Mac on Friday that they may lose their top credit ratings if lawmakers don’t raise the U.S. government’s borrowing limit in time to avoid a default.S&P said government-controlled Fannie and Freddie, along with certain Federal Home Loan Banks and Farm Credit System Banks, could also default on their debts, given each
World BusinessJuly 17, 2011
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Regulators close four small banks in three states
WASHINGTON (AP) ― Regulators on Friday shut down four small banks in three states, boosting to 55 the number of U.S. bank failures this year.The overall pace of closures, however, has slowed this year as banks work their way through piles of bad debt. A slow, but improving U.S. economy also has helped stem the number of bank casualties this year. By this time last year, regulators had closed 96 ba
World BusinessJuly 17, 2011
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Eight banks flunk European stress test
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) ― Eight of 90 European banks flunked stress tests projecting how they would fare in another recession, and 16 more barely passed ― but analysts doubted Friday’s results would succeed in restoring confidence in the continent’s shaky financial sector.Some countries challenged the results as inaccurate and overly pessimistic, saying they would not force their weaker banks to r
World BusinessJuly 17, 2011
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Congress seeks debt solution, Obama goes to public
On debt crisis, Obama makes direct appeal to U.S. public: ‘We are all in this together’WASHINGTON (AP) ― President Barack Obama appealed for public support Saturday to push Congress to avert an unprecedented default on America’s national debt as lawmakers worked on dual tracks to reach an elusive deal.Obama wants lawmakers to approve a giant package that would not only prevent a default by raising
World BusinessJuly 17, 2011
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Israel aircraft raid Gaza for 4th day in row
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories (AFP) ― Israeli aircraft struck Gaza overnight for the fourth time in as many days, wounding a militant who was about to fire a rocket, Palestinian security sources said on Saturday.The Palestinian was admitted to hospital but his injuries were not life-threatening, the sources said.An Israeli military spokeswoman confirmed that an air strike had targeted a Pales
World NewsJuly 17, 2011
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Chavez to delegate some duties
CARACAS (AP) ― Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez delegated some of his duties to his vice president and finance minister on Saturday as he prepared to fly to Cuba to start chemotherapy and a new stage of cancer treatment.Chavez had refused opposition demands that he temporarily cede power to Vice President Elias Jaua while undergoing chemotherapy in Havana. But shortly after a legislative vote appr
World NewsJuly 17, 2011
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Clinton chides NATO ally Turkey on rights curbs
ISTANBUL (AP) ― U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, chiding a NATO ally whose support is critical to American goals in the Mideast, said Saturday that Turkey must act on concerns about backsliding on human rights and its secular traditionsSpeaking politely but firmly about the moderate Muslim nation, Clinton said the recent arrests of dozens of journalists and curbs placed on religious
World NewsJuly 17, 2011
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Vietnam police break up anti-China rally
HANOI (AFP) ― Vietnamese police rounded up at least 10 people as they forcibly broke up an anti-China rally on Sunday after a series of protests over tensions in the South China Sea.Around 50 demonstrators, greatly outnumbered by the security forces, were stopped and forced to disperse after they gathered close to the Chinese embassy in the capital Hanoi.“Down with China! Down with arresting patri
World NewsJuly 17, 2011