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Yoon, Lee end first talks with differences, agree to meet more
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What is Hybe’s next move?
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China outpaces Korea in smaller OLED shipments for 1st time
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Medical profs at top hospitals suspend surgeries, clinics
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[Herald Interview] Mom’s Touch seeks to replicate success in Japan
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'Queen of Tears' finale sets record viewership ratings as tvN's most-watched series ending
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Police to open alleged stalking probe over pastor over Dior bag scandal
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Samsung chip business back on track, logs W1.9tr operating profit in Q1
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[News Focus] Lee tells Yoon that he has governed without political dialogue
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Seoul to deploy more military doctors to fill med prof void
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Security breach hits U.S. card processors, banks
The U.S. Secret Service is investigating a major cyber intrusion at an Atlanta-based payment processor that could expose millions of MasterCard, Visa, American Express and Discover cardholders to fraudulent charges.Processor Global Payments Inc said on Friday it had found "unauthorized access" into
March 31, 2012
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Obama: Oil supply enough to keep squeeze on Iran
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama said Friday he was plowing ahead with potential sanctions against countries that keep buying oil from Iran, including allies of the United States, in a deepening campaign to starve Iran of money for its disputed nuclear program.The world oil market is tight,
March 31, 2012
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Japan orders interception of North Korean rocket
TOKYO (AP) ― Japan’s defense minister on Friday ordered missile units to intercept a rocket expected to be launched by North Korea next month if it flies over Japan.The order from Defense Minister Naoki Tanaka came at a meeting of Japan’s national security council. It followed instructions issued earlier in the week for the military to prepare to intercept the satellite rocket if it enters Japanese territory.The Unha-3 rocket is expected to fly past western Japan after its launch from North Kore
March 30, 2012
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Myanmar shines spotlight on historic election
YANGON (AP) ― Myanmar has sent out a surprisingly broad guest list for elections Sunday, hoping to showcase its democratic credentials to the world.The by-election is likely to mark a symbolic turning point by bringing opposition leader and Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi into parliament for the first time, an event that would raise hopes for a more representative government after a half century of repressive military rule.However, with less than 7 percent of the chambers’ seats contested,
March 30, 2012
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Spain engulfed in anti-austerity strike
MADRID (AP) ― Spanish workers enraged by austerity-driven labor reforms to prevent the nation from becoming Europe’s next bailout victim has slowed down the country’s economy in a general strike, closing factories and clashing with police as the new-center right government tried to convince investors the nation isn’t headed for a financial meltdown.Tens of thousands held protest marches in Madrid and other cities Thursday, and the demonstrations turned violent in Spain’s second-largest city of B
March 30, 2012
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13 dead in Honduran prison fire amid inmate riot
At least 13 people died during an uprising by armed inmates at a Honduran prison Thursday, one of them decapitated and the others killed by a fire started by the rioters, authorities said.Varying reports of local and national authorities said as many as 18 inmates were killed, but national police ch
March 30, 2012
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Indonesia women’s group slams miniskirt comment
Taking backward steps? Indonesian government considers mini-skirt ban. (MTC)Indonesia’s commission for women’s rights condemned on Thursday a minister’s suggestion that miniskirts be banned under the controversial anti-pornography law.Religious affairs minister Suryadharma Ali said on Wednesday
March 30, 2012
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University revokes Hungary president's doctorate
A Hungarian university decided Thursday to revoke the doctorate of the country's president after an investigation found that large parts of his 1992 thesis were copied from other authors.Rector Tivadar Tulassay said Semmelweis University's senate voted 33-4 in favor of revocation because Pal Schmitt
March 30, 2012
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Rising powers say new bank can help development
NEW DELHI (AP) _ The leaders of five of the world's fast-rising powers agreed Thursday to move toward creating a new development bank that would improve access to capital for poor nations.Accusing current international institutions of failing to lift up poor countries, the BRICS group _ Brazil, Russ
March 29, 2012
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Explosions heard as Arab summit opens in Baghdad
Arab Foreign ministers meet in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday. Foreign ministers of the 22-member Arab League meeting in Baghdad will ask their heads of state to urge the Syrian regime to halt its crackdown on civilians and allow humanitarian groups into the country. &nb
March 29, 2012
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BRICS summit insists on dialogue for Syria, Iran
(AFP) -- .The world's emerging powers on Thursday said dialogue was the only answer to crises in Syria and Iran at a summit aimed at bolstering their non-Western alliance's influence on global affairs.The BRICS bloc -- comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa -- vowed to work togethe
March 29, 2012
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Clinton to open way to resume aid to Egypt: US official
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will open the way to resuming $1.3 billion in annual military aid to Egypt that had been suspended over human rights concerns.“Tomorrow, Secretary Clinton will certify that Egypt is meeting its obligations under its peace treaty with Israel,” a senior State Department official said in an email on Thursday.The move will free up $250 million in economic aid that had never been in serious question.Clinton would also waive requirements on whether Cairo is maki
March 29, 2012
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Thousands march in Mali to support junta
BAMAKO (AP) ― Several thousand people took to the streets of Mali’s capital in support of last week’s coup and to protest against the possible use of force by Mali’s neighbors who are putting a peacekeeping unit on standby in case the country’s military junta refuses to stand down.The coup has been divisive in Mali because many were fed up with President Amadou Toumani Toure’s failure to contain a rebellion by Tuareg fighters in the nation’s north. The wives and mothers of soldiers killed in the
March 29, 2012
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School fights stigma as it rebuilds after tsunami
SENDAI, Japan (Yonhap News) ― For the past 12 months, students at Tohoku Chosen, a local elementary and high school, have been taking classes taught in a cafeteria and dormitories. The school’s main five-story building vanished after an earthquake and the ensuing tsunami wiped out much of Japan’s northeast in March last year. The land where the school once stood is still barren, blanketed by snow, and there is no knowing when things will return to normal. Like many others, Tohoku Chosen is seeki
March 29, 2012
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U.K. students turn human billboards to pay off debts
LONDON (AFP) ― In their scruffy jeans and trainers, Ross Harper and Ed Moyse look just like any other British 22-year-olds ― except for the words “Buy My Face” and “Sold” emblazoned brightly on their faces.Standing in the middle of London’s shopping mecca Oxford Circus, the two Cambridge University graduates attract more than a few curious glances from the hoards of passers-by.“How much?” a young man calls out from a gaggle of Spanish tourists, to which Harper, a former neuroscience student, rep
March 29, 2012
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Gingrich scales back presidential campaign
WASHINGTON (AFP) ― With a traditional path to the Republican nomination all but impossible, White House hopeful Newt Gingrich is cutting his schedule, shedding staff and eyeing a possible convention showdown, his campaign said Wednesday.“Our campaign is focused on winning a big choice convention this August in Tampa and is making necessary adjustments to leadership and personnel to execute our strategy,” Gingrich’s communications director Joe DeSantis told AFP.But the former House speaker hardly
March 29, 2012
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U.S. judge set to decide on Strauss-Kahn sex case
NEW YORK (AFP) ― The fate of a New York maid’s lawsuit alleging sexual assault by Dominique Strauss-Kahn rested in the hands of a U.S. judge Wednesday after the French politician’s lawyers claimed he had diplomatic immunity.Judge Douglas McKeon said he would rule quickly following a 90-minute hearing in a Bronx courthouse where a Strauss-Kahn attorney argued that the disgraced former head of the IMF had “the same kind of diplomatic immunity that other high-ranking officials and diplomats enjoy.”
March 29, 2012
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Arab summit appears divided over approach to Syria
BAGHDAD (AP) ― Arab leaders gathering here Thursday will call for Syria to implement a cease-fire, but there’s little faith that President Bashar Assad will do anything to halt his crackdown on the year-old uprising.That could set the stage for Gulf Arab nations, eager to see Assad’s downfall, to take stronger action on their own.Arab governments are divided over how strongly to intervene to stop the bloodshed in Syria, and their divisions illustrate how the conflict has become a proxy in the re
March 29, 2012
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Syria forces in assaults despite peace pledge
Activists say army goes on shelling opposition townsDAMASCUS (AFP) ― Syrian forces on Wednesday attacked rebel bastions as United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon urged President Bashar al-Assad to “immediately” implement a U.N.-Arab League peace plan he reportedly accepted.The United States accused the Syrian leader of failing to fulfill a pledge to respect the plan.“Assad has not taken the necessary steps to implement” the peace plan crafted by former U.N. secretary general Kofi Annan, State Departme
March 29, 2012
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Congregants wear hoodies, remember slain teen
Wearing hooded sweatshirts similar to the one that Trayvon Martin wore on the night he was killed, many preachers and worshippers echoed calls for justice Sunday in the shooting death of the unarmed black teenager in Florida last month. This series of handout frame grabs from video, provided by
March 29, 2012