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Signs point to N. Korean troops in Russia-Ukraine combat zone
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[Exclusive] Korean adoptee sisters meet for the first time in 39 years
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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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Hanwha, HD Hyundai vie for Poland’s $2.7b submarine program
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First lady’s controversies to top agenda at meeting of party leaders
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[Photo News] Rallying against LGBTQ+
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4 in 10 young South Koreans take up 'irregular' jobs: data
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SM founder Lee Soo-man is back with A2O Entertainment
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UK says Brexit deal 'almost within touching distance'
Britain and the European Union are "almost within touching distance" of a Brexit deal after another late-night negotiating session, a close ally of Prime Minister Theresa May said Tuesday.Cabinet Office Minister David Lidington _ effectively the UKcs deputy prime minister _ said it's "possible but not at all definite" that the two sides can reach agreement this week."We are not quite there yet," Lidington told the BBC. "This was always going to be an extremely difficult, extremely complex negoti
World NewsNov. 13, 2018
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Amnesty strips Aung San Suu Kyi of highest honour
LONDON (AFP) - Amnesty International on Monday stripped Aung San Suu Kyi of its highest honour over the de facto Myanmar leader's "indifference" to the atrocities committed by the military against Rohingya Muslims.It was the latest in a string of awards the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner lost since Myanmar's military drove 720,000 Rohingya out of the Buddhist majority country in what the United Nations has called an act of genocide. (AFP)The London-based global human rights organisation said it w
World NewsNov. 13, 2018
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[News Focus] How to drive robot on Mars
GREENBELT (AFP) -- Some 126 million kilometers from Earth, alone on the immense and frigid Red Planet, a robot the size of a small 4x4 wakes up just after sunrise. And just as it has every day for the past six years, it awaits its instructions.Around 9:30 Mars time, a message arrives from California, where it was sent 15 minutes earlier.“Drive forward 10 meters, turn to an azimuth of 45 degrees, now turn on your autonomous capabilities and drive.”The Curiosity rover executes the commands, moving
World NewsNov. 13, 2018
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Trump blasts Saudi Arabia over oil
President Donald Trump took aim at Saudi Arabia’s plan to cut oil production on Monday, injecting new tension into an already fraught alliance that has been clouded by US concerns over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and the ongoing conflict in Yemen.Trump’s efforts to influence oil production threatens to further strain relations between the two historic allies, even as his administration continues to describe the Saudis as a crucial partner in a shared bid to counter Iranian influenc
World BusinessNov. 13, 2018
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Kurdish women pedal, dunk, spike as Iraq’s top athletes
IRBIL, Iraq (AFP) -- When Iraq’s female cycling team snatched bronze and silver medals at a landmark pan-Arab race, it was thanks to athletes from the autonomous Kurdish region.The country’s toughest female competitors, its best-equipped facilities and most experienced coaches are not in the capital Baghdad, but in the Kurdish-majority northern region.And the three medals won by the Iraqi female cyclists in September at the tournament in Algeria were seen as proof of this sporting prowess in a r
World NewsNov. 13, 2018
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Journey to afterlife: Indonesia’s Toraja live among the dead
LA'BO, Indonesia (AFP) -- Martha Kande’s family lived with her graying, shriveled corpse at their home in Indonesia for seven months, as they prepared an elaborate funeral that is central to the Toraja people's centuries-old death rituals.“We keep the body in a coffin at home,” Meyske Latuihamallo, the 81-year-old woman’s granddaughter, told Agence France-Presse. “But it's kept open before they are buried because we see them as sick so they are brought food and drink every day.”Torajans -- an et
World NewsNov. 13, 2018
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Quantum leap for mass as science redefines the kilogramme
SEVRES, France (AFP) -- Sealed in a vault beneath a duke's former pleasure palace among the sycamore-streaked forests west of Paris sits an object the size of an apple that determines the weight of the world.Forged against a backdrop of scientific and political upheaval following the French Revolution, a single, small cylinder of platinum-iridium alloy has laid largely undisturbed for nearly 130 years as the world's benchmark for what, precisely, is a kilogramme.The international prototype of th
World NewsNov. 13, 2018
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Crazy in love? The Japanese man 'married' to a hologram
Akihiko Kondo's mother refused an invitation to her only son's wedding in Tokyo this month, but perhaps that isn't such a surprise: he was marrying a hologram."For mother, it wasn't something to celebrate," said the soft-spoken 35-year-old, whose "bride" is a virtual reality singer named Hatsune Miku.In fact, none of Kondo's relatives attended his wedding to Miku -- an animated 16-year-old with saucer eyes and lengthy aquamarine pigtails -- but that didn't stop him from spending two million yen
World NewsNov. 13, 2018
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Dead in cars and homes: Northern California fire toll at 29
PARADISE, Calif. (AP) — The dead were found in burned-out cars, in the smoldering ruins of their homes, or next to their vehicles, apparently overcome by smoke and flames before they could jump in behind the wheel and escape. In some cases, there were only charred fragments of bone, so small that coroner’s investigators used a wire basket to sift and sort them.At least 29 people were confirmed dead in the wildfire that turned the Northern California town of Paradise and outlying areas into hell
World NewsNov. 13, 2018
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[Newsmaker] Stan Lee, creator of a galaxy of Marvel superheroes, dies
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Stan Lee, the creative dynamo who revolutionized the comic book and helped make billions for Hollywood by introducing human frailties in Marvel superheroes such as Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four and the Incredible Hulk, died Monday. He was 95.Lee was declared dead at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to Kirk Schenck, an attorney for Lee’s daughter, J.C. Lee.As the top writer at Marvel Comics and later as its publisher, Lee was widely considered the architec
World NewsNov. 13, 2018
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Abu Dhabi summit: Oil production cuts may be necessary
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates -- OPEC and allied oil-producing countries will likely need to cut crude supplies, perhaps as much as 1 million barrels of oil a day, to rebalance the market after proposed U.S. sanctions on Iran failed to cut Tehran's output, Saudi Arabia's energy minister said Monday.The comments from the minister, Khalid al-Falih, show the balancing act the U.S. allies face in dealing with President Donald Trump's actions related to the oil industry. Khalid Al-Falih, Saudi Ener
World NewsNov. 12, 2018
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[Graphic News] China most visited among Asian nations
China attracts the highest number of tourists in Asia, with a record inflow of 59.27 million people in 2016. The Southeast Asian region receives the highest number of travelers, with China topping the list of countries, according to the World Tourism Organization report. Tourism has been among the growing economic sectors across the world. According to the report from the World Tourism Organization, international tourist arrivals increased from 25 million globally in 1950 to 278 million in 19
World NewsNov. 12, 2018
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Hearses stand by as crews search for California fire victims
PARADISE, Calif. (AP) -- With hearses standing by, crews stepped up the search for bodies in the smoking ruins of Paradise — and relatives desperately looked for more than 100 missing loved ones — as wildfires raged Sunday on both ends of the state.The statewide death toll stood at 25 and appeared certain to rise.At least five search teams were working in Paradise — a town of 27,000 that was largely incinerated on Thursday — and in surrounding Northern California communities. Authorities called
World NewsNov. 12, 2018
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World leaders mark WWI centenary in sombre Paris ceremony
US President Donald Trump, his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and dozens of other world leaders joined France's Emmanuel Macron in commemorating the centenary of the end of World War I in a solemn ceremony in Paris on Sunday.The ceremony at the foot of the Arc de Triomphe war memorial on the Champs-Elysees marked the culmination of events for the 100th anniversary of the end of the four-year onflict which claimed 18 million lives.Macron led dozens of heads of state and government including G
WorldNov. 12, 2018
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Clash erupts during Israel operation in Gaza, six dead: officials
An exchange of fire erupted during an Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, leaving six Palestinians dead, officials said, while potentially dashing hopes that a recent agreement would restore calm.As tensions rose following the clash, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said he would cut short his trip to Paris, where he had been attending World War I commemorations, and return home. The mother of Nour Baraka, a commander for Hamas' armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Q
World NewsNov. 12, 2018
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World leaders gather in Paris a century after WWI armistice
World leaders with the power to make war but a duty to preserve the peace gathered by the dozens Sunday to mark the end of World War I's slaughter 100 years ago, turning Paris into the epicenter of global commemorations that drove home a powerful message: never again.(Yonhap)Over 60 heads of state and government gathered -- silent, somber and reflective -- for a ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the mute and powerful symbol of sacrifice to the millions who died from 1914-18.They heard
World NewsNov. 11, 2018
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Paradise lost: California fires rage on
Firefighters in California on Saturday battled raging blazes at both ends of the state that have left at least nine people dead and thousands of homes destroyed, but there was little hope of containing the flames anytime soon.More than 250,000 people have been ordered to evacuate a wide area near the state capital Sacramento and, in southern California, the Hollywood resort town of Malibu. (AFP)So far, all nine fatalities were reported in the town of Paradise, in Butte County, where more than 6,
World NewsNov. 11, 2018
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Stung by Asian dominance, Germany pours cash into EV battery ventures
BERLIN - Germany has earmarked 1 billion euros ($1.2 billion) to support a consortium looking to produce electric car battery cells and plans to fund a research facility to develop next-generation solid-state batteries, three sources told Reuters.The measures, expected to be announced next week, are designed to reduce the dependence of German carmakers on Asianelectric vehicle (EV) battery suppliers and protect German jobs at risk from the shift away from combustion engines.Berlin's push to shap
World BusinessNov. 9, 2018
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13 dead including gunman in shooting at California bar
THOUSAND OAKS, California (AP) -- Thirteen people are dead after a gunman opened fire on a crowd at a country dance bar holding a weekly “college night” Wednesday in Southern California, sending hundreds fleeing in terror including some who used barstools to break windows and escape, authorities said.The dead included 11 people inside the bar, the gunman and a sheriff’s sergeant who was the first officer inside the door, Ventura County Sheriff Geoff Dean said. Two women wearing blankets leave th
World NewsNov. 8, 2018
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Trump preaches love, makes threats after midterms
An upbeat President Donald Trump on Wednesday promised a post-elections era of "love" in Washington, saying he can work with opposition Democrats in a newly divided Congress, yet warning the gloves could come back off at any time.In a first indication of how he confident he feels after Tuesday's legislative polls, Trump fired his attorney general, immediately raising questions over the integrity of a bombshell probe into whether Russia colluded with his 2016 presidential election campaign.But on
World NewsNov. 8, 2018