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Marine Corps commander summoned by CIO for questioning on alleged influence-peddling case
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Debate rages over ‘overly fatty’ samgyeopsal
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40 flights canceled on Jeju Island due to bad weather
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[Weekender] Korean psyche untangled: Musok
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N. Korea slams US, other countries for seeking alternative to UN sanctions monitoring panel
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Pandemic left Korea more depressed than before: report
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Gov't appears to shelve punitive measures against mass walkout by doctors
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[Eye Interview] 'If you live to 100, you might as well be happy,' says 88-year-old bestselling essayist
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From fake prostitution ring to nonexistent robber, prank calls hamper police
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Missing S. Korean traveler in Paris found safe after 2 weeks
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Yemeni forces press assault on al-Qaida bastion
ADEN (AFP) ― Yemeni forces on Sunday pressed an assault to recapture the al-Qaida-held southern city of Zinjibar, as U.S. drones intensified raids against the jihadists in other parts of the violence-wracked country.The battles against the militants were being carried out with “U.S. logistical support,” a military official said, as state news agency Saba reported that John Brennan, U.S. President Barack Obama’s top counter-terrorism aide, held talks in Sanaa Sunday with Yemeni President Abdrabuh
May 14, 2012
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Close to deal to end Palestianian hunger strike
JERUSALEM (AP) ― Egyptian and Palestinian officials said Sunday they were close to reaching a deal with Israel that would end a mass hunger strike by Palestinians in Israeli jails.Some 1,600 Palestinian prisoners are on strike, most for a month, but three have refused food for more than 70 days. They launched the strike to press their demands for better conditions and an end to detention without trial.An Egyptian-drafted proposal calls for Israel to move prisoners currently held in solitary conf
May 14, 2012
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Syrian forces raid village; violence bleeds into Lebanon
BEIRUT (AP) ― Syrian forces killed at least five people when they raided a Sunni farming village on Sunday, torching homes and looting shops in what activists said is a sign of worsening relations among the country’s religious groups.Tensions stemming from the 14-month-old uprising against President Bashar Assad also touched off clashes across the border in Lebanon as the revolt threatened to morph into a broader conflict.The relentless violence further undermines a U.N.-backed peace plan that i
May 14, 2012
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49 bodies found in north Mexico
MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) ― Forty-nine bodies with their heads, hands and feet hacked off were found Sunday dumped on a northern Mexico highway leading to the Texas border in what appeared to be the latest carnage in an escalating war between Mexico’s two dominant drug cartels.Local and federal authorities discovered the bodies before dawn lying in a pool of blood at the entrance to the desert town of San Juan, on a highway leading from the metropolis of Monterrey to the border city of Reynosa. A w
May 14, 2012
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Merkel suffers major setback in German state vote
BERLIN (AFP) ― Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party suffered a severe defeat Sunday in a pivotal German state vote likely to award her main rivals a major boost in their bid to soften her austerity drive in Europe.Around 16 months before national elections, the snap poll in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s most populous with 18 million people, is closely watched as a taste of things to come at federal level.While Germans nationally back Merkel and her tough stance on European belt tigh
May 14, 2012
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Greek coalition in serious doubt
ATHENS (AP) ― Talks to form a governing coalition in crisis-struck Greece are planned Monday but the chances of success have been diminished after one leftist party pulled out of the talks, leading the country one step closer to new elections ― and bringing its continued membership in the euro into serious doubt.Last-ditch efforts by President Karolos Papoulias to broker a deal between wrangling party leaders ended with no deal in sight late Sunday, a week after national elections produced a dea
May 14, 2012
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Bangladeshi Hindu women call for marriage reform
For 20 long years, Kanon Bala Das was married to a man who suddenly disclaimed her and her two children to marry another woman. As there are no laws for the Hindus to register or have any official document during marriage, Kanon, who was married off as per Hindu traditions, can neither prove her marriage and file for a divorce nor take any legal help. Her children face questions regarding their identities especially when they need to fill in forms to sit for exams. Because of the stigma surround
May 14, 2012
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Can Sony really bounce back?
Sony Corp. has announced a new management plan including about 10,000 job cuts and reinforcement of its strengths in the electronic sector with TVs, games and cell phones, but there is no assurance it can bounce back from the company’s worst deficit ever. The new focus is a major shift from Sony’s past strategy, with the TV sector as the main profit-earning pillar. The company aims to rejuvenate the TV business by drastically reducing its number of models.Sony is expected to report a 520 billion
May 14, 2012
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Plane with 21 crashes in Nepal; 8 survive
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) -- A plane carrying 21 people crashed Monday while trying to land in Nepal's northern Himalayas, killing at least nine, authorities said. Eight survivors in critical condition were flown by helicopter to a hospital. The plane hit a mountain while it was turning around to land at Jomsom Airport, said Laxmi Raj Sharma, chief government administrator in the area. The wrecked
May 14, 2012
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Egypt funeral turns happy after dead man awakes
The funeral of a 28 year-old waiter in southern Egypt turned into a celebration when he woke up after being declared dead.Hospital officials had pronounced dead Hamdi Hafez al-Nubi, who came from the village of Naga al-Simman in the southern province of Luxor, after he suffered a heart attack while working.His family says grieving relatives took him home and, according to Islamic tradition, washed
May 14, 2012
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Father and son drown in boating accident
A father and 3-year-old son drowned after their boat capsized on the River Avon in Barford, England, while two other children survived, officials said.The man, identified by locals as Julian Mynott, had taken his son Freddie and daughter Florence and another boy out in a rowing boat Saturday when it capsized on a weir just after 5:30 p.m., The Daily Telegraph reported.Florence and the other boy we
May 14, 2012
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49 headless bodies dumped on north Mexico highway
Forty-nine bodies with their heads, hands and feet hacked off were found Sunday dumped on a northern Mexico highway leading to the Texas border in what appeared to be the latest carnage in an escalating war between Mexico's two dominant drug cartels.Local and federal authorities discovered the bodies before dawn lying in a pool of blood at the entrance to the desert town of San Juan, on a highway
May 14, 2012
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U.S. lawmakers push for tactical nukes in S. Korea
WASHINGTON (Yonhap News) ― A U.S. congressional committee is pressuring the Obama administration to redeploy tactical nuclear weapons on the Korean Peninsula.The House Armed Services Committee, dominated by Republicans, approved an amendment to the fiscal 2013 national defense authorization bill Thursday that calls for the re-introduction of the sensitive weapons to South Korea, according to Foreign Policy magazine.It also would require Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defense Secretary Le
May 13, 2012
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Legendary car designer, racer Shelby dies at 89
DALLAS (AP) ― Decades after a heart condition forced him to retire from racing, Carroll Shelby still loved to drive muscle cars. Well into his 80s, the legendary car designer spent hours testing his last Mustang Shelby GT500, which sets a new record for horsepower and hits a top speed of more than 200 mph.A one-time chicken farmer, Shelby had more than a half-dozen successful careers during his long life: champion race car driver, racing team owner, automotive consultant and safari tour operator
May 13, 2012
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Facebook Co-Founder may gain choosing Singapore over U.S.
Eduardo Saverin, the billionaire co- founder of Facebook Inc. (FB), renounced his U.S. citizenship before an initial public offering that values the social network at as much as $96 billion, a move that may reduce his tax bill. Facebook plans to raise as much as $11.8 billion through the IPO, the biggest in history for an Internet company. Saverin’s stake is about 4 percent, according to the website whoownsfacebook.com. At the high end of the proposed IPO market capitalization, that would be wor
May 13, 2012
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Palestinians say hunger strike breakthrough close
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories (AFP) ― Palestinian officials said Saturday they expected a breakthrough soon on efforts to end a mass hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners in Israel, some of them close to death.But Amin Shoman, head of a monitoring group of Palestinian political factions, said that if Israel gave a negative response, prisoners would intensify their fast and break off further talks with prison authorities.“The prisoners will stop taking vitamins and water and stop negotiation
May 13, 2012
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Men in Afghan police uniforms kill 2 NATO troops
KABUL (AP) ― Men wearing Afghan police uniforms shot dead two NATO service members Saturday in southern Afghanistan, authorities said, the latest in a string of attacks on international troops by Afghan security forces or militants disguised as police.Two other coalition service members also died Saturday in Afghanistan, one in an insurgent attack and another of non-battle related injuries.There were conflicting reports about the shooting in Helmand province.Fareed Ahmad, a spokesman for the Hel
May 13, 2012
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Algerian regime tightens grip despite Arab Spring
ALGIERS (AFP) ― Algeria’s ruling party tightened its grip on power in an election that bucked the regional trend of Islamists gaining strength since the Arab Spring, according to results Friday that drew accusations of fraud.President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s National Liberation Front won 220 out of 462 seats up for grabs in Thursday’s election, improving on its share in the outgoing national assembly.The seven Islamist parties contesting the polls could only manage a combined 59 seats, a major se
May 13, 2012
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Syria violence kills 15 as U.N. mission grows
DAMASCUS (AFP) ― Violence in Syria cost at least 15 lives on Saturday as a U.N. force to oversee a truce neared half its planned strength, monitors said.In Idlib province, a stronghold near the Turkish border of rebels fighting President Bahar al-Assad’s regime, security force gunfire killed a man and a woman during a series of raids, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.Another civilian and a child were killed in pre-dawn shelling in central Hama province, the Britain-based watchdog sai
May 13, 2012
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Indonesia jet crash bodies sent for identification
CIJERUK, Indonesia (AFP) ― Body bags containing the victims of a Russian jet crash arrived in the Indonesian capital Saturday as Russian investigators flew in to probe how the new aircraft smashed into the side of a dormant volcano.Rescuers said the bodies of those who perished when Sukhoi’s new Superjet 100 hit Mount Salak in western Java on Wednesday, killing all on board, were badly dismembered and had been placed in 16 body bags.“Today we did the evacuation by land and air, and we brought al
May 13, 2012