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Exports to US reach all-time high, widen gap with China
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Trump rekindles criticism: US forces defending 'wealthy' S. Korea 'free of charge'
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[Music in drama] Rekindle a love that slipped through your fingers
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S. Korea discussed possible participation in AUKUS Pillar 2 with Australia: defense minister
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[New faces of Assembly] Architect behind ‘audacious initiative’ believes in denuclearized North Korea
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Seoul Metro to seek legal action against malicious complaints
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On May Day, labor unions blast Yoon's foreign nanny proposal
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Illit, mired in controversy, remains on Billboard charts for 5th week
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Opposition-led Assembly unilaterally passes bill to probe Marine's death
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[KH Explains] Will alternative trading platform shake up Korean stock market?
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Strauss-Kahn sues media, Sarkozy aide
PARIS (AFP) ― Disgraced ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn and his heiress wife are suing a top aide of French President Nicolas Sarkozy and several papers for invasion of their privacy, their lawyers said Tuesday.Strauss-Kahn and Anne Sinclair want 100,000 euros ($135,000) from Le Figaro over a story speculating Sinclair was upset by reports her husband had sex parties with prostitutes, according to a writ served on the daily. The paper also speculated that Sinclair, a celebrity television jou
Nov. 23, 2011
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Widow of ex-French leader Mitterrand dies
PARIS (AFP) ― Resistance heroine, humanitarian and widow of a president, Danielle Mitterrand, who died Tuesday aged 87, was never content with the ornamental role of a traditional French first lady.Whether it was backing the Kurds or Tibetans or Cuban leader Fidel Castro, pleading for an equitable share-out of water resources or denouncing slavery, the causes that she defended ardently were numerous.Born Danielle Gouze on Oct. 29, 1924 in the eastern town of Verdun, her father was a teacher and
Nov. 23, 2011
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Berlusconi revives musical career with new CD
ROME (AP) ― Silvio Berlusconi is reviving his musical career, just a week out of office.The billionaire media mogul and three-time Italian premier released a new CD with his longtime musical collaborator Mariano Apicella on Tuesday.Berlusconi ― a one-time cruise ship crooner ― doesn’t sing on the new collection, titled “True Love,” but co-wrote all 11 songs.The album features love songs and jazz arrangements. It is the fourth CD that Berlusconi and Apicella, a Neapolitan guitarist and singer, ha
Nov. 23, 2011
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NASA launches dream machine to explore Mars
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) ― As big as a car and as well-equipped as a laboratory, NASA’s newest Mars rover blows away its predecessors in size and skill.Nicknamed Curiosity and scheduled for launch on Saturday, the rover has a 2-meter arm tipped with a jackhammer and a laser to break through the Martian red rock. What really makes it stand out: It can analyze rocks and soil with unprecedented accuracy.“This is a Mars scientist’s dream machine,” said NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Ashwin Vas
Nov. 23, 2011
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Obama camp slams Romney ‘dishonesty’
WASHINGTON (AFP) ― The White House accused Republican Mitt Romney’s camp of blatant dishonesty Tuesday after he savaged President Barack Obama’s jobs record in a testy preview of a possible 2012 election showdown.The row erupted after the Romney camp’s first television advertisement ripped an Obama quote out of context, making it appear the president feared that talking about the crisis-riddled economy could doom his reelection hopes.Republican candidates meanwhile, just over a month before thei
Nov. 23, 2011
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Pakistan’s envoy to U.S. resigns over memo scandal
ISLAMABAD (AP) ― Pakistan’s envoy to Washington lost a battle with the country’s powerful generals to keep his job Tuesday over allegations he wrote a memo seeking U.S. help in stopping a supposed coup in the aftermath of the American raid that killed Osama bin Laden.The resignation of Hussain Haqqani highlighted tensions between the country’s nominal civilian government and the army, which has ruled Pakistan for most of its history.Haqqani, a key ally of President Asif Ali Zardari, was well reg
Nov. 23, 2011
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Erdogan says Turks can avoid army service for 30,000 liras
Nov. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his government plans to allow men over 30 to pay 30,000 liras ($16,325) to win exemption from compulsory service in the military, the second-largest force in NATO.The change has been on the ruling party's agenda for nine years a
Nov. 23, 2011
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Belgium’s mediator quits amid stalemate
BRUSSELS (AFP) ― The man tasked with ending Belgium’s record political crisis, by finally putting a government together, threw in the towel Monday after talks collapsed over budget cuts to counter the eurozone debt crisis.As Belgium hit 526 days without a government, Socialist leader Elio Di Rupo offered his resignation to King Albert II, who delayed any decision and exhorted politicians to find a rapid solution for the sake of the kingdom.The king “recalls the gravity of the current situation a
Nov. 22, 2011
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AIDS epidemic stabilizing, but still work to do: U.N.
LONDON (AP) ― The AIDS epidemic is leveling off and the number of people newly infected with the virus that causes it has remained unchanged since 2007, the United Nations said in a report Monday.Critics say that the body’s aim of wiping out the disease is overly optimistic, however, considering there is no vaccine, millions remain untreated and donations have slumped amid the economic crisis.There were 2.7 million new HIV infections last year, approximately the same figure as in the three previ
Nov. 22, 2011
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Europe’s leftists shown the exit amid crisis
As financial crisis wears on, doubts on socialists’ ability to handle economy growsMADRID (AP) ― Throw a dart at a map of Europe now and it takes expert aim to hit a country run by a left-of-center government, especially after Spain’s Socialists were emphatically drubbed out of power over the weekend.Although the shift to the right began years ago in such heavyweights as France and Germany, it is now all but complete three years into the continent’s grinding debt and economic crisis. Why? When t
Nov. 22, 2011
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Rape, murder of teen shocks France
France is reeling after a 17-year-old boy raped and murdered a girl at a chic boarding school while conditionally freed on charges of rape a year ago."It's absurd. It could have been avoided with a little less negligence," the dead 13-year-old's mother, Paola Marin, told Europe 1 radio as a nation s
Nov. 22, 2011
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Ai Weiwei and editor of China paper in online spat
BEIJING, Nov 22, 2011 (AFP) - Ai Weiwei fans have again rallied behind the outspoken Chinese artist after he revealed he is being investigated on pornography charges -- by posting naked pictures of themselves online.Supporters of Ai -- who disappeared into custody for 81 days earlier this year -- ra
Nov. 22, 2011
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Peru finds 14th century mass grave of children
LIMA, Nov 20, 2011 (AFP) - A Peruvian archeologist on Sunday announced the discovery of the remains of 44 infants and young children sacrificed to appease ancient deities in the 14th century at a site in the high Andes near the border with Bolivia.The remains were found near a stone funeral tower --
Nov. 22, 2011
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Report: Pfizer to settle bribery probe
Pfizer Inc. will pay at least $60 million to settle allegations by the U.S. government that the drugmaker paid bribes to win overseas business, according to The Wall Street Journal.The paper, citing “people familiar with the matter,” said in an article published to its website Sunday that settlements are expected to be made public by the end of the year.In April, health care giant Johnson & Johnson agreed to pay $70 million to settle civil and criminal charges of bribing doctors in Europe and pa
Nov. 21, 2011
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Marines recall Yeonpyeong shelling with new perspective
YEONPYEONG ISLAND (Yonhap News) ― To this day, Marine captain Kim Jeong-soo still remembers the sound.“It was as if dinosaurs were stomping on the ground,” Kim said, recalling the fateful day almost a year ago. “The moment was straight out of the film ‘Jurassic Park.’”But when bombs shook this tiny island in the Yellow Sea, it wasn’t part of any Steven Spielberg movie. Right before their eyes, the soldiers and residents were witnessing the first direct attack on South Korea by the North in almos
Nov. 21, 2011
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Libyans will try Gadhafi son; former spy chief caught
ZINTAN, Libya (AP) ― Libya’s new leaders said Sunday they will try Moammar Gadhafi’s son at home and not hand him over to the International Criminal Court where he’s charged with crimes against humanity. The government also announced the capture of the toppled regime’s intelligence minister, who is also wanted by the court.In one of several emerging complications, however, the former rebel faction that captured Seif al-Islam Gadhafi a day earlier is refusing to deliver him to national authoritie
Nov. 21, 2011
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Israel: Time has come to act on Iran
WASHINGTON (AFP) ― The “time has come” to deal with Iran, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Sunday, refusing to rule out military action to curb the Islamic republic’s nuclear ambitions.Barak, speaking on CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS program, indicated that Israel’s patience was wearing thin ― and provided an ominous response when asked about the growing speculation of an Israeli military strike.“I don’t think that that is a subject for public discussion,” he said. “But I can tell you that th
Nov. 21, 2011
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End of era? Putin greeted with catcalls at a match
MOSCOW (AP) ― Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was greeted by catcalls when he stepped into the ring after a mixed martial arts fight at a Moscow arena on Sunday night.The whistles and shouts, heard clearly on the live television broadcast, were an unprecedented rebuke as Putin prepares to return to the presidency next year. A judo enthusiast, Putin has long been an admirer of Russian heavyweight mixed martial artist Fedor Emelianenko and came to see him take on American Jeff Monson.After E
Nov. 21, 2011
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Police officers in pepper spray incident placed on leave
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ― A California university placed two of its police officers on administrative leave Sunday because of their involvement in the pepper spraying of passively sitting protesters, while the school’s chancellor accelerated a task force’s investigation into the incident amid calls for her resignation.The president of the 10-campus University of California system also weighed in on the growing fallout from Friday’s incident at UC Davis, saying that he is “appalled” at images of stude
Nov. 21, 2011
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Al-Qaida sympathizer arrested in New York
NEW YORK (AP) ― An “al-Qaida sympathizer” accused of plotting to bomb police and post offices in New York City as well as U.S. troops returning home has been arrested on numerous terrorism-related charges.Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced at a news conference Sunday the arrest of Jose Pimentel of Manhattan, “a 27-year-old al-Qaida sympathizer” who the mayor said was motivated by terrorist propaganda and resentment of U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said poli
Nov. 21, 2011