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No plan to let doctors with foreign licenses practice here anytime soon: PM
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Ador CEO's dismissal to be decided on last day of May
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Science Ministry expresses regret over Japan’s pressure on Naver
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Haeundae Beach to become sand art museum in late May
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Hostilities get out of hand as YouTuber murders another outside courthouse
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[Weekender] Pet food makers bet big on ‘recession-free’ pet food market
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Yoon interacts with public for 1st time since election defeat
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Police officer jumps barefoot into drainage tunnel to save man
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Lee Sun-kyun's posthumuous film to hit theaters in August
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N. Korea says to deploy new multiple rocket launcher starting this year
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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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Doubts, fears nag Iraqis as U.S. pulls out
BAGHDAD (Reuters) ― Zahora Jasim lost two brothers to bombs and gunmen in the years of turmoil and violence that followed the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Now, as the troops leave for home, the Baghdad housewife fears her country’s troubles are not over and wonders, like many Iraqis, if their fragile democracy will slide back into sectarian strife. “The only images I have in my mind from these nine years are the deaths of my brother and his wife, of being forced from our homes, and the death of anothe
Dec. 18, 2011
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Russia’s Syria shift a bid to guard image, interests
MOSCOW (Reuters) ― Russia’s offer of a new U.N. Security Council resolution on the violence in Syria is a pragmatic step by a country increasingly isolated in its support for a widely discredited leader.The shift allows Russia to look less recalcitrant without giving ground on its opposition to sanctions or foreign military interference, which it has vociferously opposed since the NATO operation in Libya.With the death toll mounting in bloodshed the world blames mostly on Syrian President Bashar
Dec. 18, 2011
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U.S. may base ships in Singapore
WASHINGTON (AFP) ― The United States, facing a rising China but a tighter budget, expects to station several combat ships in Singapore and may step up deployments to the Philippines and Thailand, a naval officer said.The United States has been increasingly vocal about defending freedom of navigation in the South China Sea, where tensions over territorial disputes between Beijing and Southeast Asian nations have been on the rise.In an academic article forecasting the shape of the U.S. Navy in 202
Dec. 18, 2011
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Iranian uranium to go into nuclear plant by Feb.
TEHRAN (AFP) ― Iran is to insert its first domestically produced uranium fuel into its Tehran reactor by mid-February, Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said in comments published by the IRNA state news agency on Thursday.“Within the next two months the first fuel plate which is produced with the 20 percent enriched uranium will be placed in Tehran’s research reactor,” Salehi, who previously headed Iran’s nuclear organisation, was quoted as saying.His statement was an excerpt from a longer inter
Dec. 16, 2011
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France’s Jacques Chirac convicted of corruption
PARIS (AP) ― As French president, Jacques Chirac was called all sorts of names, not the least for his vociferous opposition to the U.S.-led war in Iraq. Now, he has a moniker that will stick: Convicted criminal.The avuncular 79-year-old on Thursday became France’s first former leader to be convicted since Marshal Philippe Petain, who headed the Nazi collaborationist regime during World War II, in 1945. Chirac will not go to prison, but received a two-year suspended sentence for corruption linked
Dec. 16, 2011
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Russia circulates new U.N. draft on Syria
UNITED NATIONS (AP) ― Russia surprised fellow U.N. Security Council members on Thursday with a proposed new resolution to address the rising violence in Syria.Western members of the council who have been pressing for tough measures against President Bashar Assad’s regime welcomed the move, but said it didn’t go far enough because it didn’t include an arms embargo or other sanctions.Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said the text calls for an end to the violence that the U.N. estimates has killed
Dec. 16, 2011
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U.S. formally ends Iraq war with little fanfare
Panetta touches on losses: Nearly 4,500 Americans, 100,000 Iraqis killed in 9 years of warBAGHDAD (AP) ― Nearly nine years after American troops stormed across the Iraq border in a blaze of shock and awe, U.S. officials quietly ended the bloody and bitterly divisive conflict here Thursday, but the debate over whether it was worth the cost in money and lives is yet unanswered.While many of the speeches painted a picture of victory ― for both the troops and the Iraqi people now set on a path for d
Dec. 16, 2011
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US research shows hands-free phones just as risky
WASHINGTON (AP) _ When someone is talking to you, your brain is listening, processing and thinking about what is being said _ even if you are in the driver's seat trying to concentrate on traffic.That is why drivers get distracted during cellphone conversations, even when using hands-free phones, re
Dec. 16, 2011
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Palm-sized baby, 2nd smallest in US, is growing
LOS ANGELES (AP) _ At birth, Melinda Star Guido was so tiny she could fit into the palm of her doctor's hand. Weighing just 9 1/2 ounces (.26 kilograms), she is among the smallest babies ever born in the world. Most infants her size don't survive, but doctors are preparing to send her home by New Ye
Dec. 16, 2011
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Shots fired near Chinese consulate in Los Angeles: police
LOS ANGELES, Dec 15, 2011 (AFP) - Shots were fired at or near the Chinese consulate in Los Angeles on Thursday, but no one was injured, police said, adding that an Asian suspect was being sought."It was a shooting at the building" housing the consulate general, which is between downtown LA and Holly
Dec. 16, 2011
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PC Air set for Laos flights
Small private airline PC Air says it will begin operating charter flights this month with Bangkok-Vientiane service and will start serving China next month.Originally the charter service was to take off around the middle of this year or in the third quarter, but factors such as the flood disaster fo
Dec. 16, 2011
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Iranian uranium to go into nuclear plant mid-February
Iran is to insert its first domestically produced high enriched uranium into its Tehran reactor by mid-February, Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said in comments published by the state IRNA news agency on Thursday.The announced deadline could sharpen international tensions over Iran's controversia
Dec. 16, 2011
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Bootleg liquor kills 102 people in India
KOLKATA, India (AP) ― A tainted batch of bootleg liquor killed 102 people and sent dozens more to the hospital in villages outside the eastern Indian city of Kolkata, officials said.Day laborers and other poor workers began falling ill late Tuesday after drinking the brew that was laced with the toxic methanol around the village of Sangrampur, about 30 kilometers south of Kolkata, according to district magistrate Narayan Swarup Nigam.“It’s a very sad thing that this has happened. Why don’t the p
Dec. 15, 2011