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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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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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'1 million' Christians join anti-LGBTQ+ marriage rally
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10 minutes of terror: A quake, a tsunami and a missing son
PALU, Indonesia (AP) -- The Muslim call to prayer had just started echoing across the Indonesian city of Palu when Musrifah's home began to shake violently.Family photos fell from the walls. Dishes and glasses crashed to the floor. A television smashed onto the white tiles of their living room, prompting Musrifah to scoop her 2-year-old son into her arms.Seconds later, the concrete sides of their one-story house cracked, then crumbled, filling the air inside with pale clouds of dust. Musrifah br
World NewsOct. 9, 2018
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Australia seeks to settle migrants outside major cities
SYDNEY, (AFP) -- Australia is drawing up plans to require migrants to temporarily settle in regional and rural areas to ease congestion in major cities, the government announced Tuesday.While much of the vast continent is sparsely populated, Australia is growing at an annual rate of 1.6 percent -- one of the highest among OECD countries. (AP)Sydney, Melbourne and southeast Queensland are among the fastest-growing urban areas in the world thanks in part to overseas migration, said population min
World NewsOct. 9, 2018
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Hong Kong leader refuses to explain journalist visa denial
HONG KONG (AFP) -- Hong Kong's leader Tuesday refused to say why the city had denied a visa to a leading Financial Times journalist, despite escalating demands for an explanation of the unprecedented challenge to freedom of the press.Victor Mallet, the FT's Asia news editor and a British national, angered authorities in Beijing and Hong Kong by hosting a speech at the city's press club by Andy Chan, the leader of a tiny pro-independence political party, in August. (AP)Chan's party was later bann
World NewsOct. 9, 2018
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Malaysian PM rallies for successor and former foe Anwar
PORT DICKSON, Malaysia (AP) -- Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad is campaigning for his designated successor and former foe Anwar Ibrahim, urging voters to support Anwar's return to active politics. Mahathir's appearance at a late night political rally Monday marked the first time in two decades that the two shared the same stage, after setting aside a bitter political feud to form an alliance that won a stunning victory in national elections in May. (AP)Mahathir, 93, was elected a secon
World NewsOct. 9, 2018
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Netflix to bring new US production hub to New Mexico
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Netflix has chosen New Mexico as the site of a new U.S. production hub and is in final negotiations to buy an existing multimillion-dollar studio complex on the edge of the state's largest city, government and corporate leaders announced Monday.It's the company's first purchase of such a property, and upcoming production work in Albuquerque and at other spots around New Mexico is forecast to result in $1 billion in spending over the next decade. Netflix logo (AP)More tha
World BusinessOct. 9, 2018
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UN report: Technologies can help lives but boost inequality
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- New technologies from artificial intelligence to gene editing hold immense potential to improve people's live -- but can also drive greater inequality and social dislocation, according to a UN report launched Monday.The World Economic and Social Survey 2018 focused on whether leading edge technologies can be used to meet UN goals for 2030 including ending extreme poverty, preserving the environment and promoting economic growth. (AP)UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres sa
World NewsOct. 9, 2018
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Area hit hard by Indonesia quake was seen as high-risk zone
PETOBO, Indonesia (AP) — When the violent shaking from a massive magnitude 7.5 earthquake finally stopped, Selvi Susanti stood up and realized something strange was happening. First, she saw the ground suddenly begin to sink. Then the pavement split beneath her feet like a broken dinner plate and started to rise.Terrified, she clung to a small sliver of asphalt and surfed a river of fast-moving mud as it swallowed entire neighborhoods, carrying her higher than coconut trees for a quarter of a mi
World NewsOct. 9, 2018
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[Graphic News] String of disasters exacts heavy damage, human toll in Asia
A recent string of natural disasters, the latest a deadly earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia, have exacted a severe toll both in economic damage and human lives throughout Asia. The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, or UNISDR, says up to 1.6 million people could be affected by the magnitude 7.5 earthquake and the tsunami it created in a central region of the island of Sulawesi.
WorldOct. 8, 2018
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Rocket carrying Argentinian satellite takes off successfully
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried an Argentinian Earth-observation satellite into space Sunday and for the first time landed a first-stage booster back at its California launch site.The primary purpose of the mission was to place the SAOCOM 1A satellite into orbit, but SpaceX also wanted to expand its recovery of first stages to its launch site at Vandenberg Air Force Base, about 130 miles (209 kilometers) northwest of Los Angeles. (AP)SpaceX had previousl
World NewsOct. 8, 2018
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UN report on global warming carries life-or-death warning
WASHINGTON (AP) — Preventing an extra single degree of heat could make a life-or-death difference in the next few decades for multitudes of people and ecosystems on this fast-warming planet, an international panel of scientists reported Sunday. But they provide little hope the world will rise to the challenge.The Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued its gloomy report at a meeting in Incheon, South Korea. (AP)In the 728-page document, the UN organization detailed h
World NewsOct. 8, 2018
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Strong aftershock rattles north Haiti day after deadly quake
Haiti (AP) -- A magnitude 5.2 aftershock struck Haiti on Sunday, even as survivors of the previous day's temblor were sifting through the rubble of their cinderblock homes. The death toll stood at 12, with fears it could rise.The U.S. Geological Survey said the epicenter of the aftershock was located 9.8 miles (15.8 kilometers) north-northwest of Port-de-Paix, the city hard hit by Saturday night's 5.9 magnitude earthquake. Sunday's aftershock had a depth of 10 kilometers. "It was an aftershock.
World NewsOct. 8, 2018
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Missing Saudi journalist once a voice of reform in kingdom
BEIRUT (AP) -- Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi journalist who disappeared last week after a visit to his country's consulate in Turkey, was once a Saudi insider. A close aide to the kingdom's former spy chief, he had been a leading voice in the country's prominent dailies, including the main English newspapers. Now the 59-year-old journalist and contributor to The Washington Post is feared dead, and Turkish authorities believe he was slain inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, something Saudi offi
WorldOct. 8, 2018
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20 killed in upstate New York limo horror
NEW YORK (AFP) - Twenty people have been killed after a limousine careened out of control in what investigators described Sunday as the most deadly transportation accident in the United States for nearly a decade.All 18 occupants of the SUV-style stretch limo died along with two pedestrians on Saturday afternoon in upstate New York, police deputy superintendent Christopher Fiore told a news conference.He said the 2001 Ford Excursion had failed to stop at an intersection and continued into a park
World NewsOct. 8, 2018
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Interpol's missing Chinese chief resigns amid Beijing probe
BEIJING (AFP) - Beijing announced Monday the Chinese head of Interpol, who vanished after returning to his homeland, was under investigation for possible criminal activity, and the world police organisation said he had resigned.The revelations came as Meng Hongwei's wife voiced concern for his life after receiving a final text message from his phone with a knife emoji.Beijing had remained tight-lipped about the fate of Meng, who is also China's vice minister for public security, since his disapp
World NewsOct. 8, 2018
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One dead, two flee as migrant boat sinks off Tunisia
TUNIS (AFP) -- A boat carrying migrants trying to reach Italy from Tunisia capsized overnight, with one person killed, a security source in the North African country said on Sunday.The makeshift vessel transporting the young Tunisians from Zarzis, in the south of the country, had been at sea for about 21 hours, said a source in the local security services. (AFP)It overturned near the Tunisian island of Djerba at around 3:00 a.m., and soon after fishermen raised the alarm and the National Guard i
World NewsOct. 8, 2018
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[Graphic News] Female winners of scientific Nobel Prizes in history
US scientist Frances Arnold became the fifth women to win a Nobel Prize in chemistry on Oct. 3, a day after Canada’s Donna Strickland became the third woman -- and the first in 55 years -- to clinch the Nobel Prize in physics. Twelve women have won the Nobel Prize in medicine. There have been 19 female winners -- Marie Curie received two separate prizes -- out of more than 600 laureates across the three scientific categories. (AFP)
World NewsOct. 7, 2018
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Fears grow that more than 1,000 still missing in Indonesia disaster
More than a thousand people could still be missing after Indonesia's devastating quake-tsunami, officials said Friday, drastically upping the number of people unaccounted for a week after the disaster.Palu city on Sulawesi island has been left in ruins after it was hit by a powerful quake and a wall of water which razed whole neighbourhoods to the ground, with the official death toll now 1,571.The number of confirmed missing stands at over 100, but fears are growing that vast numbers of people h
World NewsOct. 5, 2018
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German sadistic killer couple jailed in 'House of Horrors' trial
A German court Friday jailed a couple who tortured and killed women they had lured to their village home in what has been dubbed the "House of Horrors" case.Angelika Wagener, 49, received a 13-year prison sentence and her former husband Wilfried, 48, an 11-year term in a psychiatric ward for the abuse that led to the deaths of two women.The couple had entrapped at least eight women over the years, mostly luring them through personal newspaper ads to then physically and mentally torment them.They
World NewsOct. 5, 2018
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Hong Kong denies FT journalist visa after independence talk
Hong Kong has refused to renew the visa of a senior Financial Times journalist who hosted a talk by an activist advocating the city's independence from China, the newspaper said Friday.Rights groups and media organisations said the decision was unprecedented and highlighted growing threats to Hong Kong's cherished freedoms from Beijing. Victor Mallet, the FT's Asia news editor, earned the ire of authorities after hosting a speech by Andy Chan, the leader of a tiny pro-independence political part
World NewsOct. 5, 2018
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Nadia Murad: from jihadist slave to Nobel laureate
Nadia Murad survived the worst cruelties ever inflicted on her people, the Yazidis of Iraq, before becoming a global champion of their cause and winning the Nobel Peace Prize.On Friday, Murad and Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege were jointly awarded the prize for their "efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war," Nobel committee chairwoman Berit Reiss-Andersen said in unveiling the winners in Oslo.The 25-year-old Murad, her thin, pale face framed by her long brown hair, once li
World NewsOct. 5, 2018