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Jimin of BTS, actor Song Da-eun suspected to be dating, again
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‘Malice should not undermine the system, social order,’ says Hybe's Bang
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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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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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[News Focus] Mystery deepens after hundreds of cat deaths in S. Korea
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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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Al-Qaida claims responsibility for N. Iraq attack
BAGHDAD (AP) – Al-Qaida in Iraq has claimed responsibility for an attack and hostage-taking that killed 57 people at a government building in northern Iraq.The statement was released on the militants' Web site on Saturday. It five suicide bombers carried out the operation using a car bomb and explosive belts.Gunmen wearing explosive belts under military uniforms charged into the provincial council
April 2, 2011
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Japan PM vows help in first tour of tsunami zone
RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan (AFP) – Japan's prime minister set foot Saturday in the tsunami zone for the first time since calamity struck three weeks ago, as the UN warned of a "very serious" nuclear situation.Naoto Kan, who flew into Rikuzentakata on a military helicopter from Tokyo, was also due to stop in nearby Fukushima prefecture, in a show of support for emergency crews risking their lives to prev
April 2, 2011
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NATO says its forces repel attack on Kabul base
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – Three insurgents attacked a NATO base on the outskirts of Afghanistan's capital Saturday but were killed by coalition forces before they could enter the compound, NATO and Afghan police said.The attack came just hours after Afghans angry over the burning of a Quran at a U.S. church stormed a U.N. compound in northern Afghanistan, killing seven foreigners.NATO told The Ass
April 2, 2011
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U.S. confident on capability to intercept N. Korean missiles: Pentagon
WASHINGTON (Yonhap News) – The United States has the capability to intercept ballistic missiles from North Korea, a senior U.S. official has said.Patrick O'Reilly, director of the Missile Defense Agency, made the remarks at a House Armed Services Committee hearing Thursday in response to a lawmaker who expressed "concerns about the ground-based midcourse defense system in Alaska and California," c
April 2, 2011
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Israeli airstrike kills Gaza militants
JERUSALEM (AP) – Israeli aircraft killed three Palestinian militants who were planning to abduct Israelis over the upcoming Jewish festival of Passover, the military said early Saturday.An Israeli military spokeswoman said that an ``aircraft had fired at a terror squad of the terror group Hamas that was planning to carry out kidnappings.'' She said the group was plotting the attacks for the Jewish
April 2, 2011
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Fukushima 'much bigger than Chernobyl': expert
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Japan's unfolding nuclear disaster is "much bigger than Chernobyl" and could rewrite the international scale used to measure the severity of atomic accidents, a Russian expert said here Friday."Chernobyl was a dirty bomb explosion. The next dirty bomb is Fukushima and it will cost much more" in economic and human terms, said Natalia Mironova, a thermodynamic engineer who became
April 2, 2011
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Facebook sued for $1 billion over Intifada page
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Facebook and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg have been hit with a lawsuit seeking more than $1 billion in damages over a page on the social network which called for a "Third Intifada" against Israel.Facebook this week shut down the "Third Intifada" page, which had almost 500,000 fans, but the lawsuit filed in a court here claims that the social network showed "negligence" by not quic
April 2, 2011
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Japan plant leaks radiation into groundwater
Contamination 10,000 times higher than the government standard for nuclear plantsTOKYO (AP) ― Radiation exceeding government safety limits has seeped into groundwater under a tsunami-crippled Japanese nuclear plant, according to the operator, but has not affected drinking supplies.The leak announced late Thursday could pose a long-term problem, however, and at the very least it is a concerning ind
April 1, 2011
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Assad launches reforms as new rallies planned
DAMASCUS (AFP) ― Syrian authorities Thursday announced a raft of measures aimed at meeting protesters’ demands as opposition movements ready for more rallies across the country after Friday Muslim prayers.“Our date is Friday, from all houses, all places of worship, every citizen and every free man, to all squares, for a free Syria,” said a statement posted Thursday on Facebook group The Syria Revo
April 1, 2011
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Kuwaiti emir accepts cabinet resignation
KUWAIT CITY (AFP) ― The ruler of the Gulf state of Kuwait on Thursday issued a decree accepting the resignation of the cabinet which quit earlier in the day, plunging the oil-rich emirate into a fresh political crisis.The decree, cited by the official news agency KUNA, asked Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Mohammad al-Ahamd Al-Sabah and other ministers to continue as a caretaker government until a ne
April 1, 2011
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NASA probe on mission to unlock Mercury’s secrets
WASHINGTON (AFP) ― NASA scientists pored Wednesday over stunning new images of Mercury as their MESSENGER probe began a year-long mission to map the surface of the solar system’s least-understood planet.After a 7.9-billion-kilometer journey that took six-and-a-half years, the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging spacecraft finally entered the planet’s orbit on March 17.MES
March 31, 2011
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China’s military to seek more foreign exchanges
BEIJING (AP) ― China said Thursday that its military, under fire for a lack of transparency, will emphasize confidence-building measures and seek more exchanges with foreign militaries.The proposals in a policy white paper issued every two years follow complaints from the United States and other countries that China has not adequately explained the goals of its rapid military expansion in the last
March 31, 2011
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Japan weighs entombing nuclear plant; IAEA sees criticality
(Yonhap News)Japan is considering pouring concrete into its crippled Fukushima atomic plant as the United Nation’s nuclear watchdog agency warned that a potential uncontrolled chain reaction could cause further radiation leaks.Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano yesterday ruled out the possibility that the two undamaged reactors at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s six-unit Dai-Ichi plant would be salvag
March 31, 2011
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Low levels of radiation found in US milk
Milk waiting to be tested sit on shelves in a cooler at the Environmental Protection Agency’s National Air and Radiation Environmental Laboratory in Montgomery, Ala. The laboratory has added a few extra contract workers because of the threat from Japan, officials say. (AP-Yonhap News)WASHINGTON (AP) _ Very low levels of radiation turned up in a sample of milk from the West Coast state of Washingto
March 31, 2011
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Japan considers reactor covers
An aerial view of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station is seen in Fukushima Prefecture in this photo taken by Air Photo Service on March 24.(AP-Yonhap)SENDAI, Japan (AFP) ― Japan was Wednesday considering plans to drape shattered nuclear reactor buildings with special covers to limit radiation, and pump contaminated water into a tanker.The embattled nation, reeling from the triple calamity
March 30, 2011
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Global rock stars knockin’ on China’s door
SHANGHAI (AFP) ― Bob Dylan’s first China concerts next month could be a sign the times are a-changing as the world’s biggest promoters make a push to bring more international music stars to the mainland.The music legend’s shows in Beijing and Shanghai mark perhaps the biggest international music act in China since the Rolling Stones played Shanghai in 2006 ― and since the global financial crisis r
March 30, 2011
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India and Pakistan to ...cooperate on terror probe
NEW DELHI (AP) ― Pakistan has agreed to host Indian investigators looking into the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks blamed on Pakistan-based militants, the two countries announced Tuesday after talks aimed at building trust between the sides.The agreement in principal was seen a breakthrough after more than two years of impasse over the investigation. India had frozen discussions with Pakistan after the
March 30, 2011
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Israel may annex West Bank’s Jewish settlements
JERUSALEM (AP) ― Israel is considering annexing major West Bank settlement blocs if the Palestinians unilaterally seek world recognition of a state, an Israeli official said Tuesday ― moves that would deal a grave blow to prospects for negotiating a peace deal between the two sides.Israel has refrained from taking such a diplomatically explosive step for four decades. The fact that it is consideri
March 30, 2011
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Biggest spike in radiation at Japan power plant
TOKYO (AP) _ Seawater outside the hobbled nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan was found to contain 3,335 times the usual amount of radioactive iodine _ the highest rate yet and a sign that more contaminated water was making its way into the ocean, officials said Wednesday. The amount of iodine-131 found offshore some 300 yards (meters) south of the coastal Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant
March 30, 2011
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Indian woman conceives IVF baby using dead husband’s sperm
An Indian woman in England is pregnant with her dead husband’s child five years after her husband died of blood cancer, Times of India reported Tuesday. Anurita, 40, a civil servant in England had IVF (in vitro fertilization) embryos implanted by using samples of sperm left by her deceased husband at the Bavishi Fertility Institute in Ahmedabad, India last February. Her husband, who was an Italian
March 30, 2011