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Signs point to N. Korean troops in Russia-Ukraine combat zone
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Rose's 'Apt.' redefines K-pop's global appeal
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Two years on, thousands mourn Itaewon tragedy, calling for accountability
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[Herald Interview] Love for K-drama, food defines 'Secret Ingredient'
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103 autumn foliage paths in Seoul
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Hanwha, HD Hyundai vie for Poland’s $2.7b submarine program
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Seoul aims to halve current suicide rate by 2030
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First lady’s controversies to top agenda at meeting of party leaders
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When two worlds collab: K-pop flexes power with global stars
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Bipartisan panel formed to address livelihood issues amid tension over first lady probe
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Dino ancestors looked like crocodiles: study
Fossils discovered in Tanzania in the 1930s have helped identify a "missing link" in dinosaur evolution that reveals their ancestors had long necks, walked on four legs and looked like crocodiles.The 245-million-year-old fossils held in Britain's Natural History Museum were studied by palaeontologist Alan Charig in the 1950s.But they were incomplete and it was only more fossils found in Tanzania in 2015 that helped build up the skeleton of "Teleocrator rhadinus". This artist's rendering provided
World NewsApril 13, 2017
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[Graphic News] China remains world's biggest executioner
China executed more people in 2016 than all other nations combined, Amnesty International said, even as worldwide total executions decreased overall. The human rights organization estimates the Asian giant alone killed “thousands” of people, a figure based on examinations of court records and news reports. All other countries combined executed at least 1,032 people last year -- a decline of 37 percent compared to 2015. Of those, 87 percent took place in just four countries -- Iran, Saudi Arabia,
World NewsApril 13, 2017
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Trump discusses North Korean 'menace' with Xi
President Donald Trump says he's had "a very good call" with Chinese leader Xi Jinping dealing with what Trump calls "the menace of North Korea." Trump tweets that he spoke with Xi on Tuesday night. And Trump says in an interview with Fox Business News that solving the standoff with North Korea isn't "as simple as people would think." (AP-Yonhap)Trump says China's long history with North Korea complicates China's ability to crack down on the North's nuclear program. Trump and Xi recently held
World NewsApril 12, 2017
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Germany detains Islamic suspect in Dortmund case
German prosecutors say a letter found near the scene of the Dortmund team bus blasts suggests a possible Islamic extremist motive for the attack, and one suspect has been taken into custody.Frauke Koehler, a spokeswoman for federal prosecutors, said Wednesday that two suspects from the "Islamist spectrum" have become the focus of the Dortmund investigation. She says at a news conference that both of their apartments were searched and one of them has been detained.She says the letter at the attac
World NewsApril 12, 2017
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Daily Mail pays Melania Trump damages over escort claim
Britain's Daily Mail newspaper on Wednesday apologised to US First Lady Melania Trump and agreed to pay her damages over an article that included allegations that she worked as an escort in the 1990s."The defendant is here today publicly to set the record straight, and to apologise to the claimant for any distress and embarrassment that the articles may have caused her," Catrin Evans, the lawyer for Associated Newspapers, publisher of the Daily Mail and MailOnline, told the High Court in London.
World NewsApril 12, 2017
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[Graphic News] Italy named healthiest country in world
Italy has been ranked the healthiest country in the world according to the Bloomberg Global Health Index of 163 countries. Iceland, Switzerland, Singapore and Australia rounded out the top five healthiest countries in the index. South Korea placed No. 24, with a health grade of 82.06 out of 100 points.Each country in the index was graded based on variables such as life expectancy, causes of death and health risks ranging from high blood pressure and tobacco use to malnutrition and the availabili
World NewsApril 12, 2017
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Xi urges peaceful resolution of N. Korea tensions in Trump call
Chinese leader Xi Jinping has urged Donald Trump to peacefully resolve tensions over North Korea’s nuclear programme, as the US president touted the power of a naval “armada” steaming towards the Korean peninsula.Chinese state media said Wednesday the two leaders had spoken by phone, in an apparent effort to avoid further escalation after Trump deployed the aircraft carrier-led strike group in a show of force. (AP-Yonhap)It headed for the region with a renewed warning that Washington was ready t
World NewsApril 12, 2017
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[Graphic News] Average Korean has 500 cups of coffee
On average, South Koreans drank 500 cups per person last year. The coffee consumption is estimated to have reached about 25.05 billion cups in 2016, up 25 percent from 10 years ago, according to industry data. Coffee mixes accounted for the largest portion, with 13.21 billion cups, followed by canned coffee with 3.79 billion cups, and brewed coffee with 3.64 billion cups, the data showed.
World NewsApril 11, 2017
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Canada snow slide kills five Koreans
Five climbers from South Korea fell to their deaths from a snow ledge that gave way near Vancouver, police said Sunday.Weather conditions in the area, north of Vancouver, have been harsh and unstable since Friday.On Saturday afternoon a hiker contacted authorities concerned because of the collapse of the cornice on the peak of Mount Harvey, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Squamish said in a statement. (EPA-Yonhap)"The hiker stated there were footprints leading to the summit and was concerne
World NewsApril 10, 2017
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Stockholm suspect was failed asylum-seeker; 2nd man arrested
STOCKHOLM (AP) -- The Stockholm truck attack suspect from Uzbekistan was a rejected asylum-seeker who eluded authorities' attempts to deport him by giving police a wrong address, Swedish police said Sunday while announcing the arrest of a second suspect.Jan Evensson of the Stockholm police told a televised news conference that the 39-year-old suspect's request for a residence permit was rejected in June 2016 but police could not find him to send him back to his native country because he was not
World NewsApril 9, 2017
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Polish PM vows aid to survivors of apartment collapse
WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- Poland's prime minister has vowed to provide financial and other aid to the survivors of an apartment building collapse that left six people dead and four injured. Rescuers and firefighters search for 11 missing people in the rubble of an apartment house that collapsed in Swiebodzice, Poland, on Saturday, April 8, 2017. (AP-Yonhap)Prime Minister Beata Szydlo came to the site of Saturday's collapse in the southwestern town of Swiebodzice (Shvyeh-'boh-tchi-tseh) and promised
World NewsApril 9, 2017
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Church bombing north of Egypt's capital kills 25
CAIRO (AP) -- A bomb exploded in a church north of Cairo that was packed with Palm Sunday worshippers, killing at least 25 people and wounding 71 others, officials said.The attack in the Nile Delta town of Tanta was the latest in a series of assaults on Egypt's Christian minority, which makes up around 10 percent of the population and has been repeatedly targeted by Islamic extremists. It comes just weeks before Pope Francis is due to visit Egypt. A general view shows forensics collecting eviden
World NewsApril 9, 2017
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Netanyahu says Israel committed to treating Syrian war wounded
JERUSALEM (AFP) -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel remained committed to treating war wounded from Syria and reaffirmed his support for last week's US air strike in the neighbouring country.In comments at the start of a cabinet meeting, Netanyahu did not specify whether those injured in last week's suspected chemical attack in Syria would be among those treated in Israel.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem April 9, 2
World NewsApril 9, 2017
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[Newsmaker] Gorsuch: Fierce defender of US Constitution
A brilliant conservative judge with a prestigious resume, Neil Gorsuch is a proponent of traditional values, a strict reading of the US Constitution and protections for the role of religion in American society. The elegant, silver-haired 49-year-old became the youngest justice confirmed to the US Supreme Court in a quarter-century. Little known until recently, the Colorado native with an Ivy League education survived an unusually rugged obstacle course between his nomination by President Donald
World NewsApril 9, 2017
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Sweden arrests man for 'terrorist crime' after truck attack
Sweden early Saturday arrested a man for a "terrorist crime" hours after a beer truck ploughed into a crowd outside a busy department store in central Stockholm, killing four and injuring 15.The man was arrested "on suspicion of a terrorist crime through murder," Karin Rosander, a communications director at the Swedish Prosecution Authority, told AFP.This picture taken on April 8, 2017, shows flowers laid down in tribute to the victims of the terror attack near the Ahlens department store where
World NewsApril 8, 2017
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Airstrikes on Syria might also send message to North Korea
The US airstrikes this week were aimed at a Syrian air base, but almost certainly got the attention of another adversary -- North Korea. Heading into the first talks between President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, North Korea was the front-and-center security issue on the table. But Trump's decision to launch the airstrikes changed that dynamic quite abruptly -- and for Pyongyang, more than talk of sanctions or deeper isolation, the missiles may well have been the message
World NewsApril 8, 2017
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US strikes win global praise -- but ratchet up Russia tension
The United States vowed Friday to keep the pressure on Syria after the intense nighttime wave of missile strikes from US ships, despite the prospect of escalating Russian ill will that could further inflame one of the world's most vexing conflicts. Standing firm, the Trump administration signaled new sanctions would soon follow the missile attack, and the Pentagon was even probing whether Russia itself was involved in the chemical weapons assault that compelled President Donald Trump to action.
World NewsApril 8, 2017
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Trump drops China bashing during warm Xi summit
US President Donald Trump ditched his trademark anti-China bombast, hailing an "outstanding" relationship with counterpart Xi Jinping at the end of a superpower summit Friday overshadowed by events in Syria."We have made tremendous progress in our relationship with China," Trump said effusively at the close of a high-stakes but studiously familiar first meeting between the pair at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida."I think truly progress has been made," Trump said, declaring his relationship with
World NewsApril 8, 2017
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Trump, Xi showdown fails to materialize at Mar-a-Lago
What was billed as a showdown between the leaders of the United States and China over trade and North Korea ended with little sign of confrontation Friday - or of concrete progress in resolving their differences.President Donald Trump had predicted a "very difficult'' meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. After their first face-to-face at the Mar-a-Lago resort, he trumpeted they had developed an "outstanding'' relationship.US officials said the two sides agreed to increase cooperation on tr
World NewsApril 8, 2017
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Trump accepts Xi's invitation to visit China: report
US President Donald Trump has agreed to visit China "at an early date" in a meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Beijing's official news agency reported Friday.In their first summit talks that opened in Florida earlier in the day, Xi extended an invitation for Trump to visit China.Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) shakes hands with U.S. President Donald Trump in their meeting in Floria, the U.S., on April 6, 2017. (AFP-Yonhap)Trump accepted the invitation "with pleasure," and hoped to make the
World NewsApril 7, 2017