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Controversy rekindled over when to name criminals, suspects
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Seoul transit pass for travelers to be available starting July
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Hybe-Ador CEO conflict gets messier
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Battery makers ramp up efforts to diversify graphite supply chain
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Prosecutors to summon pastor who allegedly gave Dior bag to first lady
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‘Monk’ DJ spreading Buddhism goes global
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[LLG] Unseen inheritance: Trauma of transnational adoption 'trickles down' to adoptees' children
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Court's ruling set to shape path of medical school expansion
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Loans of self-employed swell 50% in four years
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1 passenger dies after falling overboard on cruise ship
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Yemen in danger of becoming next Somalia: U.N.
International body says Yemen crisis can effect nearly 4 million peopleDUBAI (AFP) ― U.N. agencies warned on Sunday that Yemen is on its way to becoming another Somalia, saying nearly four million people will be affected by the impoverished nation’s political and economic crisis in 2012.“About four million people will be affected by the crisis in Yemen in 2012 and will require immediate humanitarian support,” said the U.N. Inter-Agency Standing Committee.More than half will be “severely food ins
Dec. 19, 2011
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Pakistani president returns amid pressure
KARACHI (AP) ― Pakistan’s president returned home early Monday, nearly two weeks after a surprise trip to Dubai for medical treatment sparked rumors that he might step down under pressure from the country’s powerful military.President Asif Ali Zardari’s arrival will likely help quell speculation about his future. But officials have not spelled out exactly what was wrong with the president, and he is still under threat from a memo scandal that has upset the army and already forced the Pakistani a
Dec. 19, 2011
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Israel completes swap for captured soldier
BEITUNIA, West Bank (AP) ― Israel released hundreds of Palestinian prisoners late Sunday, the second and final phase of a swap with Gaza Hamas militants that brought home an Israeli soldier after five years in captivity.Under the Egypt-brokered deal, Israel agreed to exchange a total of 1,027 prisoners for Sgt. Gilad Schalit, who was captured by Gaza militants in June 2006. Schalit returned home in October when Israel freed the first batch of 477 prisoners. Sunday’s release of 550 prisoners comp
Dec. 19, 2011
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Havel, hero of revolution against communism dies
PRAGUE (AP) ― The end of Czechoslovakia’s totalitarian regime was called the Velvet Revolution because of how smooth the transition seemed: Communism dead in a matter of weeks, without a shot fired. But for Vaclav Havel, it was a moment he helped pay for with decades of suffering and struggle.The dissident playwright spent years in jail but never lost his defiance, or his eloquence, and the government’s attempts to crush his will ended up expanding his influence. He became a source of inspiratio
Dec. 19, 2011
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Iran TV shows suspected US spy 'confessing'
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) _ Iran's state TV broadcast video of a young man Sunday it claimed was a CIA spy who sought to infiltrate Iran's secret services.The TV identified the man, apparently in his late 20s, as Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, an American-Iranian who received special training and served at U.S. mili
Dec. 19, 2011
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Pope urges dignity in emotional visit to prison
ROME (AP) _ Pope Benedict XVI made an emotional visit Sunday to Rome's main prison, meeting with detainees, denouncing prison overcrowding and calling for greater dignity for inmates everywhere.Benedict spent over an hour at Rome's Rebibbia prison, fielding questions from a half-dozen inmates who sp
Dec. 19, 2011
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Last troops exit Iraq in subdued end to 9-year war
AT THE IRAQ-KUWAIT BORDER (AP) _ Outside it was pitch dark. The six American soldiers couldn't see much of the desert landscape streaming by outside the small windows of their armored vehicle. They were hushed and exhausted from an all-night drive _ part of the last convoy of U.S. troops to leave Ir
Dec. 19, 2011
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Havel, Czech playwright and president, has died
In this Oct. 15, 2009 file photo former Czech President Vaclav Havel is seen during a press conference on occasion of the 20th anniversary of the changes in Czechoslovakia and the fall of the Iron Curtain in Prague. Havel, the dissident playwright who wove theater into politics to peacefully bring d
Dec. 18, 2011
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Yemen: 4 soldiers killed in clashes with militants
SANAA, Yemen (AP) _ Four Yemeni soldiers and two al-Qaida-linked militants were killed in clashes in the country's south, military and medical officials said Sunday.The fighting took place overnight outside the city of Zinjibar, the capital of Abyan province that Islamic militants seized earlier thi
Dec. 18, 2011
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652 dead, 808 missing in Philippine floods
ILIGAN, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine Red Cross says the death toll from a storm that ravaged a wide swath of the south has risen to 652 with 808 others still missing.Red Cross Secretary-General Gwendolyn Pang said Sunday that flash floods set off by Tropical Storm Washi killed 346 people in Cagayan de Oro city and 206 in nearby Iligan city. Deaths were also reported in five other southern and central provinces.Pang said more people have reported missing relatives, including 447 in Iligan an
Dec. 18, 2011
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Iran’s fortunes in post-U.S. Iraq clouded
CAIRO (AP) ― The U.S. military’s departure from Iraq opens the door to expanded Iranian influence in the Middle East, though that door could close fast if Iran’s closest Arab ally Bashar Assad falls from power in Syria.That’s among the uncertainties looming over the Middle East in the wake of President Barack Obama’s decision to remove all U.S. troops by the end of this month, fulfilling a campaign promise to end the unpopular war and abandoning efforts to negotiate an extension of the year-end
Dec. 18, 2011
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China stresses 'wisdom' over 'fist' in diplomacy
HONG KONG -- China stressed Sunday that it needs to grow in wisdom rather than using military power in its foreign policy as the country's global prowess escalates. In the wake of Beijing's increasing influence, Washington has moved to reassert its presence in the Asia-
Dec. 18, 2011
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Grammy-winning singer Cesatria Evora dies
LISBON (AP) ― Cesaria Evora, who started singing as a teenager in the bayside bars of Cape Verde in the 1950s and won a Grammy in 2003 after she took her African islands music to stages across the world, has died. She was 70.Evora, known as the “Barefoot Diva” because she always performed without shoes, died Saturday in the Baptista de Sousa Hospital in Mindelo, on her native island of Sao Vicente in Cape Verde, her label Lusafrica said in a statement on its website. It gave no further details.E
Dec. 18, 2011
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Berenson barred from leaving Peru
LIMA (AP) ― Peru’s government abused its authority by barring paroled U.S. activist Lori Berenson and her 31-month-old son from leaving the country to spend the holidays in New York City with her family, her lawyer charged Saturday.“Administratively, you can’t block a court order,’’ Anibal Apari said after Berenson told the Associated Press that she and her son Salvador were prevented from boarding a flight Friday night despite being granted permission in court.“They didn’t let me leave and they
Dec. 18, 2011
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EU companies share love with Korea
European businesses here got the chance to give back to Korean society at a charity event on Friday. The “Share Christmas with Love” event to benefit Namsanwon was organized by the European Union Chamber of Commerce in Korea and the Europe-Korea Foundation, the EUCCK’s charity arm. The donation ceremony included donations and Christmas gifts as well as the announcement of scholarships for children at the orphanage on Seoul’s Namsan. The EUCCK and EFK also staged a puppet show and a magic show at
Dec. 18, 2011
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World’s shortest woman wants to be Bollywood star
NAGPUR, India (AP) ― A high school student in central India was recognized as the world’s shortest woman by Guinness World Records on Friday as she turned 18 and said she hopes to earn a degree and make it in Bollywood.Jyoti Amge stood just 62.8 centimeters tall ― shorter than the average 2-year-old ― when Guinness representatives visiting from London measured her at a ceremony attended by about 30 relatives and friends in the town of Nagpur, in Maharashtra state.A teary-eyed Amge, dressed in on
Dec. 18, 2011
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Russian oil platform capsizes; 4 dead, 49 missing
MOSCOW (AP) — An oil drilling platform capsized Sunday in the Sea of Okhotsk off Russia's east coast, leaving four workers confirmed dead and 49 missing.The Emergencies Ministry said in a statement Sunday that there were 67 people aboard the platform as it was being towed about 200 kilometers
Dec. 18, 2011
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Arab League mulls turning to U.N. over Syria
BEIRUT (AP) ― The Arab League has given Syria until Wednesday to allow observers into the country or else it will likely turn to the U.N. Security Council for action to try to end the deadly violence against regime opponents, Qatar’s prime minister said Saturday.Sheik Hamad Bin Jassem Bin Jabr Al Thani said in Qatar that Arab foreign ministers will hold a “decisive and important” meeting in Cairo on Wednesday to decide on next steps. He said there is near unanimity on taking the Arab League’s pl
Dec. 18, 2011
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Unrest challenges China before leadership swap
BEIJING (AFP) ― An open revolt against officialdom by Chinese villagers last week demonstrated the challenge social unrest poses to the Communist party as it prepares for a generational leadership handover.Angered by decades of government land grabs, the villagers of Wukan drove out local Communist officials and police, erecting roadblocks to stop them re-entering and electing their own leaders.The protest has become a symbol of rising public anger over a plethora of perceived injustices, from c
Dec. 18, 2011
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Tunisia fetes town where revolt year began
TUNIS (AP) ― About one year ago, in a hardscrabble town in Tunisia’s arid interior, the death knell sounded for the decades-old system of dictatorships across the Arab world.With a desperate act of self-immolation, a 26-year-old Sidi Bouzid fruit-seller unwittingly unleashed a year of turmoil that toppled at least three autocrats in a region once thought to be immune to democracy.Tunisia’s new leaders together with thousands of others took part in a festival starting Saturday in the town honorin
Dec. 18, 2011