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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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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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Minister warns against trusting NK stated intentions, says Moon misguided
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South Korea bans viral North Korea propaganda video praising Kim
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AI Seoul Summit to discuss ways to make AI equitable in Global South
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Yoon vetoes bill for special probe into young Marine's death
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Hermes celebrates craftsmanship
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After 6-year hiatus, Kia to return to Paris Motor Show in Europe push
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Syria accepts UN peace plan but bloodshed persists
Syria accepted a cease-fire drawn up by U.N. envoy Kofi Annan on Tuesday, but the diplomatic breakthrough was swiftly overshadowed by intense clashes between government soldiers and rebels that sent bullets flying into Lebanon.Opposition members accuse President Bashar Assad of agreeing to the plan to stall for time as his troops make a renewed push to kill off bastions of dissent. And the conflict just keeps getting deadlier: The U.N. said the death toll has grown to more than 9,000, a sobering
March 27, 2012
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Mideast executions boost 2011 global toll: Amnesty
NEW YORK (AP) ― A surge of executions last year in Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Yemen pushed the worldwide total higher than the year before, the global anti-death penalty group Amnesty International announced Monday.The United States remains near the top of the global list of nations carrying out executions, ranked fifth.Although the global rate of executions has declined by about a third in the past decade, to 676 documented worldwide in 2011, some 18,750 people remained on death row at the en
March 27, 2012
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Pope urges Cubans to build ‘open society’
SANTIAGO, Cuba (AFP) ― Pope Benedict XVI urged hundreds of thousands of Cubans gathered for an open-air mass on Monday to “build a renewed and open society,” at the start of his visit to the Communist-ruled country.The pontiff ― making the first papal visit to Cuba in 14 years ― is seeking to bolster close church-state ties here while also urging authorities in the Americas’ only one-party Communist state to embrace change.Benedict, who arrived on Monday after a visit to predominantly Roman Cath
March 27, 2012
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British P.M. hosted meals at family home for donors
LONDON (AP) ― Britain’s prime minister, facing new questions about party fundraising, disclosed Monday the names of major donors to his Conservative Party invited to intimate meals at his family’s Downing Street apartment and his official countryside mansion.David Cameron, whose aides had initially refused to divulge the details, published the lists of guests after the resignation of a fundraising aide caught boasting that he could organize access to Cameron in return for large donations.Peter C
March 27, 2012
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NATO, Afghans work against insider attacks
WASHINGTON (AFP) ― Attacks by Afghan soldiers on NATO troops have resulted in an “erosion of trust” between the two allies, but ties remain strong and officers on both sides are working to contain the problem, the commander of U.S.-led forces said Monday.Speaking hours after two British troops and a U.S. soldier were killed in two separate “insider” assaults by Afghan security forces, U.S. General John Allen acknowledged the incidents were cause for concern.“There is an erosion of trust that has
March 27, 2012
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Egypt’s Brotherhood faces double backlash
CAIRO (AP) ― Egypt’s powerful Islamists on Monday faced a backlash on two fronts as they try to solidify their hold on the country’s politics, as liberal politicians quit a panel tasked with drafting a new constitution to protest its domination by Islamists.More ominously, the ruling military issued a veiled threat of a crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood if the group persisted in demands to form a new government.The warning pointed to a growing possibility of confrontation between the Brotherho
March 27, 2012
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Obama asks Russia for 'space' on missile defense
U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday told President Dmitry Medvedev that he had little flexibility to address Russia's objections to a U.S. missile defense shield before his November reelection bid.Obama was picked up on an open mic privately explaining his position to Medvedev in an exchange heard
March 27, 2012
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Around the world on a taxi cab
A trio of Britons traveling the world in a black taxi cab said in New York they have driven more than 51,499 kilometers.Image from itsonthemeter.comPaul Archer, Leigh Purnell, and Johno Ellison left London in the cab in February 2011 and are currently passing through New York, the Sun reported Monda
March 27, 2012
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Strauss-Kahn charged in prostitution vice ring
Disgraced former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was charged on Monday with involvement in an organised vice ring that procured prostitutes for top-class clients, lawyers said.Former International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn (AP-Yonhap News)Prosecutors said the 62-year-old former Soci
March 27, 2012
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Senegal president concedes defeat to ex-protege
DAKAR (AP) ― President Abdoulaye Wade conceded defeat to his former protege Macky Sall late Sunday, congratulating him several hours after polls closed when preliminary results showed the opposition candidate had trounced the 85-year-old incumbent.Wade called Sall around 9:30 p.m. Sunday to congratulate him on his victory, state television reported. The move alleviated fears that Wade would attempt to stay in office after 12 years or would challenge the runoff results.Even before Wade conceded,
March 26, 2012
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Arab summit: New leaders, new politics
BAGHDAD (AFP) ― This week’s Arab summit in Baghdad will be very different from the one that met two years ago, with many long-time autocrats swept away by the political tsunami that has struck across the region.Instead, new Islamist leaders will sit alongside long-serving hereditary rulers, while one country returns having lost much its territory to a newly created state, and all in meetings led for the first time by a Kurd.On March 28, 2010, leaders of the 22-member Arab League met in Sirte, th
March 26, 2012
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Another Japan reactor shuts down; only one left
TOKYO (AP) ― Another Japanese nuclear reactor was taken off line for maintenance on Monday, leaving the country with only one of its 54 reactors operational following last year’s devastating earthquake and tsunami.The last reactor is expected to be shut down by early May, raising the possibility of power shortages across the nation as demand increases in the hot summer months.The No. 6 reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa complex was taken off line early Monday by the Tokyo Electric Power Co. The u
March 26, 2012
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Ailing Suu Kyi curbs election campaign in Myanmar
YANGON (AP) ― Democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi has fallen ill while campaigning for Myanmar’s upcoming by-elections and has suspended her extensive tour of the country a week ahead of the polls, her party said Sunday.Kyi Toe, deputy information officer for her National League for Democracy party, said that Suu Kyi’s personal physician advised taking the break after she fell ill with vomiting while campaigning in the Mergui archipelago in southernmost Myanmar.The doctor, Tin Myo Win, who was accom
March 26, 2012
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Toulouse killer’s brother charged in shootings
PARIS (AFP) ― The brother of an Islamist gunman whose grisly murder spree shocked France was charged Sunday with complicity in the attacks, but his lawyer said he should not be made a scapegoat.Abdelkader Merah denied any involvement in the shootings of three French soldiers, three Jewish schoolchildren and a trainee rabbi ― attacks claimed by his younger brother Mohammed Merah, 23. Merah, who said he had links to al-Qaida, died Thursday in an exchange of gunfire ater a prolonged stand-off with
March 26, 2012
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Legal battle over Obama health law reaches high court
WASHINGTON (AP) ― The monumental fight over a health care law that touches all Americans and divides them sharply comes before the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday. The justices will decide whether to kill or keep the largest expansion in the nation’s social safety net in more than four decades.Two years and three days after President Barack Obama signed into law a health care overhaul aimed at extending medical insurance to more than 30 million Americans, the high court begins three days of hearing
March 26, 2012
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Quake hits central Chile; no reports of deaths
Magnitude 7.1 quake strikes northwest of Talca, no tsunami alert issuedSANTIAGO (AP) ― A magnitude-7.1 earthquake struck central Chile Sunday night, the strongest and longest that many people said they had felt since a huge quake devastated the area two years ago. There were no immediate reports of deaths or major damage.The quake struck at 7:30 p.m. about 27 kilometers north-northwest of Talca, a city of more than 200,000 people where residents said the shaking lasted about a minute.Buildings
March 26, 2012
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Obama urges N. Korea to "pursue peace"
In a direct challenge to North Korean leaders, President Barack Obama implored them ``to have the courage to pursue peace'' while warning of the wrath of world if they don't. Failure, he said, would mean a future without dignity, respect or hope for its people.Obama stood by his pledge for a globe w
March 26, 2012
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'Divorce hotel’ offers quick, easy break-up
A new hotel program in the Netherlands offers guests a clean, speedy break-up with their spouses, the BBC reported.In the “divorce hotel,” couples can relax at the bar or in the sauna before meeting with their mediators.Mediators and psychologists with the programs say it allows their clients to settle their differences and “pick up their lives again” within three days. Hotel psychologist Veneta Brummel said contrary to common belief, the divorce is just like an “ah-ha” moment.The hotel claims t
March 26, 2012
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23 college students hospitalized in China
Twenty-three students at Fuyang Normal College in China were hospitalized after eating at the same restaurant, authorities said Sunday.The students of Fuyang Normal College in China's Anhui province showed symptoms of cyanosis -- a blue discoloration of the skin from lack of oxygen in the tissues --
March 26, 2012
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Tsunami threat prompts evacuation order in Chile
SANTIAGO (AFP) - Chilean authorities ordered the evacuation of the central coast of Chile Sunday because of the threat of a tsunami after a 7.1 magnitude quake.People embrace each other after strong earthquake hits Chile. (AP-Yonhap News)Government spokesman Andres Chadwick said the Office of
March 26, 2012