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Iran’s president found dead at helicopter crash site
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Seoul rolls out W250b package in bid to lure foreign talent
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Yoon vetoes bill for special probe into young Marine's death
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N. Korea slams US subcritical nuclear test, vows measures to bolster nuclear deterrence
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Korea's increasing US investment mutually beneficial: report
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SNU alums nabbed for digital sex crimes
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South Korea bans viral North Korea propaganda video praising Kim
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Minister warns against trusting NK stated intentions, says Moon misguided
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AI Seoul Summit to discuss ways to make AI equitable in Global South
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Hermes celebrates craftsmanship
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Turkish P.M. makes first trip to China in 27 years
BEIJING (AP) ― Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was to arrive in Beijing on Monday on an official visit to boost business and political ties between the rising powers with booming economies, despite differences over Syria and China’s ethnic Uighur region.The visit is the first to China in 27 years by a Turkish premier and follows a February trip by Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping to Ankara and Istanbul, where the countries signed deals worth billions of dollars.The official Xinhua N
April 9, 2012
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Titanic memorial cruise retraces tragic voyage
LONDON (AFP) ― A cruise ship carrying descendants of some of the people who died on the Titanic set sail from a British port Sunday to retrace the doomed liner’s route on its maiden voyage 100 years ago.The Titanic Memorial Cruise is carrying 1,309 passengers, the same number as were on the White Star ship, and departed from Southampton docks in southern England.Many turned up to board the MS Balmoral in period Edwardian costumes, with some as first class passengers, others as steerage travelers
April 9, 2012
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Pope marks Easter with call for Syria violence end
Pope Benedict XVI implored the Syrian regime Sunday to heed international demands to end the bloodshed and expressed hope that the joy of Easter will comfort Christian communities suffering because of their faith.Benedict, struggling with hoarseness and looking tired, celebrated Mass on Christianity’s most joyous holy day on the flower-adorned steps of St. Peter‘s Basilica, before a crowd of faithful that swelled to far more than 100,000 by the end of the 2-hour-long ceremony.Only hours earlier
April 9, 2012
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Anchor bombarded with eggs and yogurt live on air
News anchor Panagiotis Bourchas was bombarded with furious egging during an on-air newscast earlier this week. During an interview with a guest speaker on Greek TV, a crowd of enraged protestors stormed into the set and started tossing eggs and yogurt at the anchor, shouting “fascist!”The attack came after Bourchas hosted a show featuring spokesman from Golden Dawn, a neo-Nazi political organizati
April 9, 2012
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Two suspects arrested in Oklahoma shootings
TULSA, Oklahoma (AP) ― Acting on a tip and shadowed by a helicopter, police arrested two men early Sunday in the recent shootings that terrorized Tulsa’s black community and left three people dead and two others critically wounded.Police spokesman Jason Willingham said the two men were arrested at a home just north of Tulsa about 2 a.m. Sunday and were expected to be charged with three counts of first-degree murder and two counts of shooting with intent to kill in the spate of shootings early Fr
April 9, 2012
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Car bomb near Nigeria churches kills 38
LAGOS (AP) ― A suicide car bomber detonated his explosives on a busy road after apparently turning away from attacking Nigerian churches holding Easter services, killing at least 38 people in a massive blast that rattled a city long at the center of religious, ethnic and political violence in the nation.The blast Sunday morning struck Kaduna, the capital of Kaduna state, leaving charred motorcycles and debris strewn across a major road in the city where many gather to eat at informal restaurants
April 9, 2012
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10-year-old gives birth
A 10-year-old Colombian girl gave birth to a healthy baby girl, doctors said.The mother, only identified as a young girl from Manaure, delivered her daughter, who weighed 5 pounds, by Caesarean section, ABC News reported Friday.“The baby's head needs to come through a bony outlet. But in a young girl, the pelvis may not be ready or big enough to deliver a baby,” said Dr. Kimberly Gecsi, an OB/GYN
April 9, 2012
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Nigeria Bombing Kills as Many as 50 Near Church in Kaduna
As many as 50 people were killed in a suicide car bombing today near a church in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna. “It was a big explosion that shook the whole city,” and about 50 people may have died, Shehu Sani, president of the Civil Rights Congress, said by phone from Kaduna. The explosion occurred about 8:30 a.m. local time near the Assemblies of God Protestant church in the city, Sani sa
April 9, 2012
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Turkmen president wins on racing track
Turkmenistan's authoritarian leader has proven he doesn't only win elections easily, coming first in a car race he wasn't even supposed to take part in. Turkmenistan`s President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov sits in a Volkicar after winning a car race in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, Saturday. (AP-Yonhap News)President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov drove to the racing track in a Bugatti sports car Saturday mo
April 9, 2012
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Facts on N.K. missile program
North Korea, which is scheduled within days to launch a long-range rocket, has been developing missiles for decades both for what it terms self-defense and as a lucrative export commodity.It says its upcoming launch, sometime between April 12-16, will put a peaceful satellite in orbit. The United States and its allies have condemned what they see as a disguised test of ballistic missile technology in defiance of U.N. resolutions.The North began its program in the late 1970s or early 1980s, when
April 8, 2012
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World has few ways to punish North Korea launch: analysts
The United States and its allies vow a tough response if North Korea goes ahead with its planned long-range rocket launch, but analysts say they will struggle to exert meaningful pressure on Pyongyang.“After various governments finish beating their chests, we have to find a way to talk to the North Koreans,” said Peter Beck, Seoul representative of the Asia Foundation.“The United States has no available options: there are no (further) meaningful sanctions that can be employed.”Pyongyang says it
April 8, 2012
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Japan, China to consult on support for IMF
Japan and China will seek to coordinate on supporting the International Monetary Fund’s effort to contain Europe’s debt crisis, Japanese Finance Minister Jun Azumi said. “Rather than make decisions independently, we’ve agreed to consult each other very closely” on financial contributions to the IMF, Azumi told reporters Saturday after meeting with Chinese Finance Minister Xie Xuren in Tokyo. The finance ministers of Asia’s two largest economies met before the Group of 20 countries gathering late
April 8, 2012
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Ferdinand Porsche, 911 designer, dies
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) ― The Porsche 911, with its sloping roof line, long hood and powerful rear engine, has been a sports car-lover’s fantasy for the half century since its 1963 introduction. Its creator, Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, grandson of the automaker’s founder, is dead at age 76.Porsche died Thursday in Salzburg, Austria, Porsche AG said Thursday. No cause was provided.Known as F.A. to his colleagues, Porsche headed the company’s design studio in the early 1960s when it needed a repl
April 8, 2012
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Pakistan chief heads to India for low-profile trip
NEW DELHI (AP) ― Officially, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari is just having a quick lunch with India’s leader on his way to visit a Muslim shrine. But Zardari’s trip to New Delhi on Sunday marks a milestone in the warming relations between the two neighbors.Such are the pressures on the nuclear-armed rivals that even as they inch closer together, they cannot be seen as fully embracing.Zardari can’t risk angering Pakistan’s hawkish army and its powerful anti-Indian Islamic groups by holding o
April 8, 2012
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Egypt’s Brotherhood picks alternate candidate
CAIRO (AP) ― Egypt’s most powerful political group, the Muslim Brotherhood, announced Saturday it is nominating the head of its party as a back-up candidate for president in the face of attempts to disqualify their primary nominee.The decision to put forth a second candidate was spurred by fears that the ruling military council may use Egypt’s election committee to disqualify Islamist presidential hopefuls in order to make room for former regime officials to win.The upcoming election, slated for
April 8, 2012
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Up to 135 feared dead in Pakistan avalanche
ISLAMABAD (AFP) ― Up to 135 people, mostly soldiers, were feared dead Sunday after an avalanche buried a Pakistan army camp in mountainous Kashmir, in an area known as the world’s highest battleground.The avalanche early Saturday engulfed the camp near the Siachen glacier, an inhospitable area that nevertheless became the site of fierce fighting between nuclear-armed rivals Pakistan and India.No survivors had been found after a huge all-day search involving more than 150 soldiers, sniffer dogs,
April 8, 2012
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Malawi’s female activist becomes president
BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) ― Malawi has known rule by Britain and by a mercurial dictator. Over the last few days, however, it wasn’t clear who was leading this impoverished southern African country, as doctors disclosed Malawi’s President Bingu wa Mutharika had died but the government insisted he was only ill.In the end, Joyce Banda, who had held onto her post of vice president despite falling out with Mutharika, was sworn in on Saturday in a brief ceremony in Lilongwe, the capital. Earlier Saturday
April 8, 2012
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Pilots in U.S. Navy jet crash had tough choices
VIRGINIA BEACH, Virginia (AP) ― Zooming along at 170 mph in a fighter jet carrying thousands of pounds of volatile fuel, two Navy pilots faced nothing but bad choices when their aircraft malfunctioned over Virginia’s most populated city.Somehow, however, the student pilot and his instructor and everyone on the ground survived Friday when the men ejected from their F/A-18D jet moments before it crashed in a fireball in an apartment complex courtyard. The pilots and five on the ground were hurt, b
April 8, 2012
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Myanmar president meets ethnic rebels
YANGON (AFP) ― Myanmar’s president held his first meeting with Karen rebels on Saturday, officials said, as the government intensifies efforts to bolster peace with the country’s oldest insurgent group.The meeting is the latest sign that Myanmar is keen to cement a ceasefire in the war-torn eastern state, amid pressure from the international community to end ethnic conflict as it considers lifting sanctions to reward recent reforms.Delegates from the Karen National Union (KNU) met President Thei
April 8, 2012
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Romney hits Obama after soft jobs numbers
WASHINGTON (AFP) ― Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney pounced Friday after weaker than expected jobs data cast doubt on the health of the economic rebound that President Barack Obama hopes to ride to reelection.“It is increasingly clear the Obama economy is not working and that after three years in office the president’s excuses have run out,” Romney said, hitting a theme underpinning his bid to evict Obama after a single term.Economists had expected the economy to power ahead in March a
April 8, 2012