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N. Korea says it test-fired tactical ballistic missile with new guidance technology
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[Weekender] Geeks have never been so chic in Korea
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NewJeans members submit petitions over court injunction in Hybe-Ador conflict
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[News Focus] Mystery deepens after hundreds of cat deaths in S. Korea
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S. Korea's exports of instant noodles surpass $100m for 1st time in April: data
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[Herald Interview] Byun Yo-han's 'unlikable' character is result of calculated acting
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US Air Force blames power loss, weather for F-16 crash in S. Korea in May 2023
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Samsung expected to introduce new Exynos processor in next Galaxy series
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Ex-president Moon recalls in memoir NK leader voiced will not to use nukes
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US military commander in S. Korea during Gwangju uprising dies
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Tajik Muslims to ban text message divorces
(MCT)DUSHANBE, Tajikistan (AP) _ Tajik religious authorities say divorce by text message will soon be banned, as they seek to stamp out the practice in the mainly Muslim Central Asian nation.State religious affairs committee head Abdurakhim Kholikov said Monday that sending SMSs with the ``triple talaq,'' a Muslim ritual whereby a husband can end a marriage by reciting the term for divorce three t
April 13, 2011
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Woman ticketed in France for wearing face veil
PARIS (AP)– A woman has been ticketed in a suburban Paris shopping center for wearing a face veil, in the first reported sanction under a new ban on the garments, police said Tuesday.Another woman in another Paris suburb was stopped for wearing a veil, but was let go with a warning.The inconsistent response illustrates the challenge for towns with a large Muslim community in enforcing a law that s
April 12, 2011
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Babel tower of 21st century? Saudi to build world’s tallest building
(YouTube)When UAE’s 828 meter tall Burj Khalifa opened last year, the world was shocked at its tremendous size, while some had doubts about its safety. However, the world’s attention towards the tower may not last for long as an even larger one, which is exactly a mile in height, is to be built in Saudi Arabia. The Saudi Royal family recently announced its bold plan to construct a 1.6km tall “King
April 12, 2011
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Ouattara urges peace after Ivory Coast rival held
April 12, 2011
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Japan ups nuke crisis to highest level
TOKYO (AP) ― Japan’s nuclear regulators raised the severity level of the crisis at a stricken nuclear plant Tuesday to rank it on par with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, citing the amount of radiation released in the accident.The regulators said the rating was being raised from 5 to 7 ― the highest level on an international scale overseen by the International Atomic Energy Agency. However, there was
April 12, 2011
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Libyan rebels reject African cease-fire plan
BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) ― Libyan rebels, backed forcefully by European leaders, rejected a cease-fire proposal by African mediators on Monday because it did not insist that Moammar Gadhafi relinquish power.A day after an announcement that the Libyan leader had accepted the truce, a doctor in rebel-held Misrata said Gadhafi’s forces battered that western city and its Mediterranean port with artillery
April 12, 2011
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Belarus subway bombing kills 12
Rush-hour explosion wounds 150; terrorist attack suspectedMINSK (AFP) ― Belarus on Tuesday sought to identify the perpetrators behind the bombing on the Minsk metro that killed 12 and wounded 150, the first major apparent act of terror in its post-Soviet history.The explosion at a busy metro station in the heart of the Belarussian capital near the headquarters of President Alexander Lukashenko stu
April 12, 2011
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France bans the burqa
Veiled muslim women take part in a protest against France banning the wearing of Islamic veils in public, in London Monday, April 11, 2011. (AP-Yonhap News)PARIS (AFP) ― France ― home to Europe’s biggest Muslim population ― on Monday officially banned women from wearing full-face veils in public places. Other European countries have drawn up bans on the burqa and the niqab but France is the first
April 12, 2011
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Australian jailed for throwing daughter off bridge
West Gate Bridge in Melbourne (AP)MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) _ A man who killed his 4-year-old daughter by throwing her off a bridge in Australia's second-largest city as her horrified brothers watched was sentenced Monday to life in prison.Arthur Freeman, 37, stood motionless as Victorian Supreme Court Justice Paul Coghlan handed down the punishment, which came despite Freeman's argument that he w
April 12, 2011
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Powerful quake rocks Tokyo
A man drags a sand bag across a street damaged by liquefaction in the March 11 earthquake in Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture, near Tokyo, Wednesday, April 6, 2011. (AP-Yonhap News)TOKYO, (AFP) - A strong offshore earthquake rocked Tokyo on Tuesday, swaying buildings in the Japanese capital and stopping subway services.The US Geological Agency put the magnitude at 6.4, at a depth of 13.1 kilometers (8.1
April 12, 2011
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Japan mulls raising nuclear crisis to top level: report
TOKYO (AFP) - Japan may raise the severity of its nuclear accident to seven -- the top level on an international scale -- from five, the Kyodo news agency reported Tuesday, as workers battled to contain the crisis. Kyodo said preliminary figures from the country's Nuclear Safety Commission revealed the battered Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant had released up to 10,000 terabecquerels of radi
April 12, 2011
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African Union: Libya accepts cease-fire plan
Opposition says will study proposal but dictator’s 41 year-old rule must endTRIPOLI (AP) ― A delegation of African leaders said Sunday that their Libyan counterpart, Moammar Gadhafi, accepted their “road map” for a cease-fire with rebels, whom they will meet Monday. They met hours after NATO airstrikes battered Gadhafi’s tanks, helping Libyan rebels push back government troops who had been advanci
April 11, 2011
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Afghanistan moves to ban extravagant weddings
KABUL (AFP) ― As a civil servant, Afghan Ahmad Mahfooz earns nearly 10 times the average annual salary in his impoverished homeland, but he still cannot afford to marry his fiancee.Already thousands of dollars in debt after hosting a lavish engagement party for 500 guests in December, Mahfooz says he doesn’t know how he will ever afford the kind of wedding his wife-to-be and her family expect.“I o
April 11, 2011
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Egypt’s former leader denies abuse of power
CAIRO (AP) ― In the first remarks since his dramatic ouster, former President Hosni Mubarak denied that he used his position to amass wealth and property during three decades in power, and issued an emotional defense of his legacy.The statement, broadcast Sunday at the end of a turbulent weekend that saw a deadly military crackdown on protesters, only stoked more public anger in the midst of Egypt
April 11, 2011
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Kan thanks world for support
TOKYO (AFP) ― Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Monday placed a signed advertisement in seven newspapers around the globe, thanking people for supporting Japan in the month since it was hit by a devastating tsunami.Here is the text of the advertisement, entitled Kizuna (the bonds of friendship):Thank you for the Kizuna.One month has passed since an earthquake of unprecedented scale struck Japan, taking
April 11, 2011
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[News Focus] End to Japan nuke crisis years, a fortune away
TOKYO (AP) ― Once Japan’s leaky nuclear complex stops spewing radiation and its reactors cool down, making the site safe and removing the ruined equipment is going to be a messy ordeal that could take decades and cost hundreds of millions of dollars.Radiation has covered the area around the Fukushima Daiichi plant and blanketed parts of the complex, making the job of “decommissioning” the plant ―
April 10, 2011
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Gunman kills 6, himself in Dutch shopping mall
ALPHEN AAN DEN RIJN, Netherlands (AP) ― A man armed with a machine gun opened fire in a crowded shopping mall, killing six people and wounding 15, then committed suicide, officials and witnesses said.Children were among Saturday’s casualties, including an infant who was lightly injured, said Mayor Bas Eenhoorn. Three of the wounded were hospitalized in critical condition.The rampage ended when the
April 10, 2011
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Man stranded in empty Japanese town since tsunami
(Kunio Shiga listens to a battery-powered radio in the living room of his home in Minami Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, inside the deserted evacuation zone established for the 20 kilometer radius around the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex in northeastern Japan Friday, April 8, 2011. The 75-year-old man was stranded alone in his farmhouse ever since Japan's monstrous tsunami struck nearly a month a
April 10, 2011
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Strong aftershock kills 4, cuts power in northern Japan
(Yonhap News)SENDAI, Japan (AFP) ― A powerful aftershock rocked Japan’s tsunami disaster zone, killing at least four and triggering new concerns over nuclear power plants in a region still grappling with an atomic emergency.Electricity was cut across a huge area of northern Japan, forcing cooling systems at three nuclear plants to switch to emergency power and plunging more than 3.3 million househ
April 8, 2011
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Strong aftershock kills 4, cuts power in northern Japan
SENDAI, Japan (AFP) ― A powerful aftershock rocked Japan’s tsunami disaster zone, killing at least four and triggering new concerns over nuclear power plants in a region still grappling with an atomic emergency.Electricity was cut across a huge area of northern Japan, forcing cooling systems at three nuclear plants to switch to emergency power and plunging more than 3.3 million households into dar
April 8, 2011