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[Weekender] Geeks have never been so chic in Korea
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N. Korea says it test-fired tactical ballistic missile with new guidance technology
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NewJeans members submit petitions over court injunction in Hybe-Ador conflict
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[News Focus] Mystery deepens after hundreds of cat deaths in S. Korea
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S. Korea's exports of instant noodles surpass $100m for 1st time in April: data
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[KH Explains] Why Korea's so tough on short selling
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Actors involved in past controversies return first via streaming service originals
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[Herald Interview] Byun Yo-han's 'unlikable' character is result of calculated acting
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US military commander in S. Korea during Gwangju uprising dies
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‘Kim desperately wanted to denuclearize,’ Moon writes in memoirs
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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
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Egypt's Morsi mulls cabinet amid Tahrir sit-in
CAIRO (AFP) - Egypt's president-elect 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 former Muslim Brotherhood politician is expected to include ministers who will have the support of his movemen
June 25, 2012
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Tunisia sends former Libyan P.M. home
TUNIS (AP) ― Tunisia extradited Libya’s former prime minister to his country on Sunday, despite concerns by Tunisia’s president and human rights groups that he could be tortured or unfairly prosecuted there. The decision by Tunisia’s prime minister to send Al-Baghdadi Al-Mahmoudi home to face trial appeared to set up a potential clash between the president and prime minister of this North African country, the top two officials in the governing coalition. Later Sunday, Libyan Prime Minister Abdur
June 25, 2012
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Islamist leader declared president of Egypt
CAIRO (AP) ― The Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohammed Morsi was declared the winner of Egypt’s first free presidential election Sunday, and he proclaimed himself a leader “for all Egyptians,” although he faces a struggle for power with the country’s still-dominant military rulers. The announcement by election officials touched off a joyous celebration of chanting and dancing in the sweltering heat by tens of thousands of Morsi’s supporters jamming Tahrir Square, the birthplace of the uprising that topp
June 25, 2012
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Bolivian police deny deal, recommit to ‘mutiny’
LA PAZ (AFP) ― Police in Bolivia vowed Sunday to press on with a four day old mutiny, spurning a pay deal struck by the government and union leaders, as President Evo Morales accused the opposition of plotting a coup.Since Thursday, low-ranking officers in this impoverished Latin American country have rioted to demand an increase in salary. Authorities, meanwhile, accuse them of stockpiling weapons and pressuring other units to turn over their arms in an attempt to overthrow the leftist governme
June 25, 2012
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Paraguay’s ousted president goes on offensive
ASUNCION (AP) ― Ousted Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo fought back Sunday against the politicians who engineered his dismissal, setting up an alternative government and pledging to upstage Paraguay’s new leaders at an upcoming regional summit. Lugo’s new stance marked a dramatic about-face from just two days earlier when it seemed he would go meekly into retirement after the country’s Congress overwhelmingly voted to impeach him. Since then, Lugo has received a flood of support from South Ame
June 25, 2012
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Sex offender given longer term
A seven-year sentence given to a sex offender has been lengthened to ten years after a year-long struggle on the part of the female victim.Josie Ottoway, 21, was raped nearby her student dormitory in February 2011 by a hooded stranger at gunpoint. The Loughborough University undergraduate studying international business was reportedly on her way back to her room from a friend’s house, which was ten minutes away.The attacker ordered her to take off her clothes before he sexually assaulted her.“On
June 25, 2012
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Eating placenta, an age-old practice in China
SHANGHAI (AFP) - After Wang Lan delivered, she brought home a baby girl and her placenta, which she plans to eat in a soup -- adopting an age-old practice in Chinese traditional medicine.The health-giving qualities of placenta are currently creating a buzz in Western countries, where some believe it can help ward off postnatal depression, improve breast milk supply and boost energy levels.But placentophagy -- the practice of eating one‘s placenta after birth -- is relatively common in China, whe
June 25, 2012
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Woman upset over corpse on flight
A Swedish woman says she had to fly overnight from Europe to Tanzania next to a man who died after the plane had departed.Lena Pettersson, a reporter for Sveriges Radio, said the man was having convulsions before the Kenya Airways flight departed from Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The plane took off anyway, The Local.se reported Sunday.He died several hours later while the plane was in the air.Pette
June 25, 2012
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Tortoise returned home after week away
A tortoise who went missing from his suburban Chicago home last week was found hanging out in a empty pool in St. Charles, Ill.The Chicago Tribune said the 44-year-old tortoise, who is named Lance, wandered Sunday from home in Lombard during a barbecue and was picked-up by a man who thought it was a wild animal and took it home to nearby St. Charles.Lance spent five days in an empty pool, cared for by the man’s 10-year-old daughter. A neighbor of the girl contacted Lance’s owners, Andy and Susan
June 25, 2012
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Two Iranians sentenced to death for drinking alcohol
Two Iranians have been sentenced to death for drinking alcohol, the head of the judiciary in the north-eastern province of Khorassan Razavin said on Sunday."Two people who have for the third time been convicted of consuming alcoholic drinks have been sentenced to death," ISNA news agency quoted Hassan Shariati as saying. "The death sentence will be effected as soon as it is confirmed by the Supreme Court."Murder, rape, armed robbery and trafficking of drugs in quantities in excess of five kilogr
June 25, 2012
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Islamist Morsi named Egypt's president
Islamist Mohammed Morsi was declared the winner Sunday in Egypt's first free presidential election in history, closing the tumultuous first phase of a democratic transition and opening a new struggle with the still-dominant military rulers who recently stripped the presidency of most of its powers.In Tahrir Square, the birthplace of the uprising that ousted autocratic President Hosni Mubarak, joyo
June 25, 2012
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Greek PM cannot attend EU summit due to surgery
ATHENS (AP) -- Greece's new Prime Minister Antonis Samaras will not be well enough to travel to a critical European Union summit in Brussels after undergoing an eye operation, the government said Sunday.Samaras, 61, underwent surgery for a detached retina Saturday, just three days after being sworn in at the head of a three-party coalition government formed after two inconclusive general elections
June 24, 2012