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'Super Rich in Korea' will leave viewers appreciating Korea more: producers
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Probe of first lady on Dior bag allegations set to begin
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Top prosecutor pledges 'speedy, strict' probe into first lady's luxury bag allegations
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Korean battery makers heave sigh of relief over 2-year IRA reprieve
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Over 80,000 millionaires, 20 billionaires in Seoul: report
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Indonesia’s KF-21 fighter jet deal cut back -- what’s next?
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[KH Explains] Can tech firms' AI alliances take on Nvidia?
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Police seek arrest warrant for med student who killed girlfriend
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Local filmmakers criticize ‘The Roundup: Punishment’ monopoly of screens
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Young Korean doctors seek plan B: cosmetic dermatology or overseas
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Asylum-seeker boat sinks en route to Australia
SYDNEY (AFP) -- Rescuers plucked 125 people from the ocean Wednesday after an asylum-seeker boat sank en route to Australia, barely a week after another vessel went down in the same area, killing up to 90.The rickety ship capsized 107 nautical miles north of Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority said, adding that one person was confirmed dead so far.In a late afternoon update, AMSA said there were up to 150 people on board, including women and children, c
June 27, 2012
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U.N. says 27m problem drug users worldwide
VIENNA (AFP) ― Some 27 million people worldwide are problem drug users, with almost one percent every year dying from narcotics abuse, while cannabis remains the most popular drug, a U.N. report showed Tuesday.“Heroin, cocaine and other drugs continue to kill around 200,000 people a year, shattering families and bringing misery to thousands of other people, insecurity and the spread of HIV,” director Yury Fedotov said as he presented the 2012 World Drug Report of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Cri
June 27, 2012
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Man takes aim at laughter world record
An Indian "laughter therapist" said he wants to set a world record by having 25,000 laugh in unison in the same place.Kamlesh Masalawala, who described himself as a full-time "laughter therapist," said he has taught the merits of laughing to more than 700,000 people and he now wants to use his skills to break the record of 10,000 people laughing together in the Netherlands, The Times of India repo
June 27, 2012
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To shorten days in prison, read books
The Brazilian government announced Monday that it would reward inmates who read books with shorter sentences as an effort to reduce prison overcrowding.According to news reports, prisoners would have to read 12 books of literature, philosophy, science and classics for a year. Each book read provides four days off, so prisoners can get a maximum reduction of 48 days each year. After reading, they wrote an essay for each book, and then officials graded them and decided the day off.“A person can le
June 27, 2012
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CCTV footage catches careless driver setting fire at gas pump
A CCTV camera captured a careless driver causing a fire while testing a lighter at a gas station in Australia.(YouTube)The video, uploaded on YouTube, captured the foolish motorist flicking his lighter right next to a gas pump in the Melbourne suburb of Thomastown.Suddenly the fumes ignited, licking the driver before setting the ground alight. The man ran away from the scene, leaving the flames.An
June 27, 2012
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About 60 protest swearing rules
About 60 people gathered in a Massachusetts city to protest a bylaw allowing police to fine people who use profanities in public.Protest organizer Adam Kokesh, 30, a Marine veteran, led the crowd Monday in repeating curses and flashing their middle fingers to protest the Middleboro bylaw, which was passed 183-50 at a town meeting this month, The (New Bedford) Standard-Times reported Tuesday."I'd l
June 27, 2012
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Mom charged with throwing sons to deaths
A Russian woman accused of throwing her two young sons from a 15th-floor balcony said she did so because she was “fed up with the children,” an official said.An investigator said Galina Ryabkova lured the boys, ages 4 and 7, to the balcony of their apartment in Dolgoprudny, north of Moscow, Sunday afternoon, then threw them over the railing to their deaths in, ITAR-Tass reported.Russian Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said when questioned, Ryabkova “said she was fed up with the
June 27, 2012
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Elvis Presley’s crypt withdrawn from U.S. auction
LOS ANGELES (AFP) ― The crypt in which Elvis Presley was first buried has been withdrawn from a huge auction of sports and music memorabilia in Los Angeles following virulent protests from the King’s fans.The crypt ― where Presley was buried in 1997 before being moved to his final resting place at his Graceland mansion in Memphis ― was to be one of nearly 1,000 items belonging to sports and music icons on offer at the weekend.But Julien’s Auctions said it had put a stop to the crypt sale until t
June 26, 2012
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Japan’s lower house approves sales tax bill
TOKYO (AP) -- Japan’s lower house voted Tuesday to double the country’s sales tax to 10 percent over three years in a bid to rein in the country’s bulging national deficit. But the vote may have weakened Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda’s grip on power as the measure faced strong opposition within the ruling party led by party elder Ichiro Ozawa that believes the tax hike is premature and will further weaken the economy. Ozawa and his supporters have threatened to bolt the party over the tax issue
June 26, 2012
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Syrian jet downing an attack on NATO: Turkey
ANKARA (AP) ― Turkey said Monday it would push the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to consider Syria’s downing of a Turkish jet as an attack on the whole military alliance. The announcement came on the eve of a meeting by NATO’s governing body to discuss the incident. Despite deep frustration among many NATO countries over the conflict in Syria, where the opposition says President Bashar Assad’s crackdown on an increasingly armed popular uprising has killed 14,000 people, it’s highly unlikely
June 26, 2012
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On rare Israel trip, Putin talks Syria, Iran
JERUSALEM (AFP) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday cautioned against foreign interference in Syria during a rare visit to Israel aimed at burnishing Kremlin’s credentials as a key Middle East power broker.During the trip, which is seen as a Kremlin diplomatic mission as world powers scramble for a solution to the Syria and Iran crises, Putin also said it was “unacceptable to think of mutual destruction.”“From the very beginning of the so-called Arab Spring, Russia has been persuading
June 26, 2012
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Egypt’s Morsi mulls cabinet amid Tahrir sit-in
CAIRO (AFP) ― Egypt’s first democratically elected president Mohamed Morsi began selecting a new government on Monday as his supporters pursued a sit-in to pressure the ruling military to hand over full powers to the Islamist.After a tight race in which Morsi was forced to reach out to pro-democracy groups, the politician who resigned from the Muslim Brotherhood to take the top job is expected to include ministers who will have the support of his movement’s election allies.Despite the historic v
June 26, 2012
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China president praises astronauts for ‘space advance’
Chinese President Hu Jintao on Tuesday told the three astronauts aboard a space capsule they had pushed forward China‘s space program, after they carried out the country’s first manual docking.Hu spoke to the crew -- including China‘s first woman in space Liu Yang -- by telephone two days after they carried out the highly technical maneuver, a milestone in an ambitious program to build a space station by the end of the decade.“The smooth completion of the manual docking shows China fully grasps
June 26, 2012
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Final steel beam lifted at 4 World Trade Center
NEW YORK (AP) ― A final steel beam was lifted Monday atop a new World Trade Center skyscraper ― the first expected to open at the site next year since the twin towers were decimated on 9/11.With gospel superstar BeBe Winans offering a powerful rendition of “God Bless America,” workers raised their hardhats in tribute as the mammoth beam rose slowly into the Manhattan sky, swaying from a steel rope hoisted by a crane.A U.S. flag attached to the bottom of the beam fluttered above several hundred s
June 26, 2012
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Tropical Storm Debby soaks Florida’s Gulf Coast
TAMPA, Florida (AP) ― Practically parked off Florida’s Gulf Coast since the weekend, Tropical Storm Debby raked the Tampa Bay area with high wind and heavy rain Monday in a drenching that has already led to flooding.At least one person was killed Sunday by a tornado spun off by the large storm system in Florida, and Alabama authorities searched for a man who disappeared in the rough surf.An estimated 35,000 homes and businesses lost electricity. But as of midafternoon, the slow-moving storm had
June 26, 2012
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Paraguay’s Lugo hopes to regain power
Seeks to plead his case on the international stage at this week’s Mercosur trade summitASUNCION (AP) ― Ousted Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo said Monday that he is aiming to return to power and will rally allies at home and abroad after a landslide congressional vote forced him from office in what he called a break with democracy.Lugo has symbolically created a parallel Cabinet, attacking the legitimacy of the government that replaced him, and told reporters he will seek to plead his case on
June 26, 2012
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Saguaro cactus puts man in intensive care
A city employee in Yuma, Ariz., suffered a broken back and internal injuries when a large saguaro cactus fell on him as he worked on a water leak.William Mason remained in intensive care Thursday at Yuma Regional Medical Center, two days after the accident, the Yuma Daily Sun reported."We'll have to see how the surgery goes to learn the extent of his injuries. It was a horrible accident," Carolin
June 26, 2012
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Female jogger fights off teenagers
A Washington state woman who has studied martial arts for nearly two decades said she fought off two teenage boys who accosted her while she was jogging.Priscilla Dang, 23, of Vancouver said she was jogging on the path along Padden Parkway June 14 when a teenage boy on a bicycle distracted her to allow a second teenager to swat her on the buttocks, The Columbian in Vancouver reported Monday.“I hate when men think they can do that stuff,” said Dang, who said she regularly studies Wushu martial a
June 26, 2012
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Three police shot dead at Mexico City airport
Three federal police officers were shot and killed Monday when they tried to arrest drug trafficking suspects at Mexico City’s international airport, officials said.Airport spokesman Jorge Andres Gomez said the incident took place around 8:50 am (1350 GMT) in the fast-food area of the airport’s Terminal 2. The identity and location of the suspects was not immediately clear.“Finding themselves surrounded,” the alleged traffickers “opened fire with their weapons against the federal police,” the Pu
June 26, 2012
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U.S. high court rejects much of Arizona immigration law
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down key provisions of a border state's harsh crackdown on illegal immigrants, but did little to finally settle the nation's raging political dispute on immigration, a divisive issue on which President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney are deeply at odds.While the conservative-dominated high court ruling released Monday found much of the Arizona law u
June 26, 2012