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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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Useful or creepy? Machines suggest Gmail replies
NEW YORK -- Google is toeing the line between helping you save time and creeping you out as it turns to machines to suggest email replies on your behalf.The customized auto-responses come in the latest version of Gmail on the web and expand on a feature already available on Android devices and iPhones. They’re just one more example of how artificial intelligence is seeping into everyday online life, whether it’s to tailor product recommendations or correct spelling.So far the new feature has bee
World BusinessAug. 31, 2018
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Franklin’s funeral billed as a spiritual service, with stars
DETROIT -- Organizers of Aretha Franklin’s funeral insist it will be a service, not a show. Yet the Queen of Soul’s final send-off on Friday certainly will encompass many elements, emotions and grand entrances that were hallmarks of her more than six decades on sacred and secular stages.And it boasts a lineup of speakers and singers that would rival any of the hottest revues, past or present.To be sure, the invitation-only funeral at Detroit’s Greater Grace Temple, which caps off a week of event
World NewsAug. 31, 2018
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Argentina's interest rate hiked to 60% to counter currency woes
Argentina's Central Bank hiked its benchmark interest rate from 45 to 60 percent on Thursday in a dramatic but fruitless bid to shore up the peso, which plunged to a record low against the dollar.Despite the bank's extraordinary measure to impose one of the world's highest benchmark rates, the currency lost a further 13.5 percent by the close -- its biggest daily loss of the year.The Argentine currency has now lost 53 percent of its value since the beginning of the year, to trade at 39.87 to the
World BusinessAug. 31, 2018
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[Newsmaker] Friends call John McCain hero, maverick at Arizona funeral
PHOENIX -- A former vice president, an NFL star and other friends remembered Sen. John McCain as a “true American hero” — and a terrible driver with a wicked sense of humor and love of a good battle — at a crowded church service Thursday for the maverick politician that ended to the tune of Frank Sinatra’s “My Way.”Addressing an estimated 3,500 mourners, former Vice President Joe Biden recalled “the sheer joy that crossed his face when he knew he was about to take the stage of the Senate floor a
World NewsAug. 31, 2018
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[Newsmaker] Hong Kong professor charged with murder after wife's body found in suitcase
HONG KONG -- A University of Hong Kong professor was on Wednesday charged with murder after police found his wife's decomposing body stuffed in a suitcase in his office, the latest grisly murder to transfix the crowded city.Officers discovered the woman's body, wearing only underwear and with electric wire around her neck, hidden in the suitcase inside a large wooden box in the office of 53-year-old Cheung Kie-chung.The associate professor from the Department of Mechanical Engineering had report
World NewsAug. 30, 2018
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Rohingya demand justice after UN probe calls for genocide prosecution
Rohingya leaders in Bangladesh on Tuesday challenged the United Nations to ensure Myanmar's generals stand trial after investigators called for top military commanders to be prosecuted for genocide against the minority.A UN fact-finding mission into violations in Myanmar said the country's army chief and five other senior brass should be investigated over a brutal crackdown last year that drove 700,000 Rohingya Muslims into Bangladesh.The report commissioned by the UN Human Rights Council detail
World NewsAug. 29, 2018
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Trump accuses Google of biased searches, warns ‘be careful’
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday accused Google and other US tech companies of rigging search results about him “so that almost all stories & news is BAD.” He offered no evidence of bias, but a top adviser said the White House is “taking a look” at whether Google should face federal regulation.Google pushed back sharply, saying Trump’s claim simply wasn’t so: “We never rank search results to manipulate political sentiment.”The president’s tweets echoed his familiar attacks on
World NewsAug. 29, 2018
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Shooting suspect was able to buy guns despite mental illness
BALTIMORE — The young man who opened fire at a Florida video game tournament had shown abundant signs he was struggling with a mental disorder: He was prescribed an anti-psychotic drug as an adolescent and had been hospitalized at least twice for mental illness.Yet David Katz landed at the foggy intersection of America’s mental health and legal systems when it came to buying the two handguns that police say he carried during the attack, which killed two people and wounded 10 others during the “M
World NewsAug. 29, 2018
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US and Mexico tentatively set to replace NAFTA with new deal
WASHINGTON — Snubbing Canada, the Trump administration reached a preliminary deal Monday with Mexico to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement — a move that raised legal questions and threatened to disrupt the operations of companies that do business across the three-country trade bloc.President Donald Trump suggested that he might leave Canada, America’s No. 2 trading partner, out of a new agreement. He said he wanted to call the revamped trade pact “the United States-Mexico Trade Agre
World BusinessAug. 28, 2018
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Uber heads in new direction with Toyota on self-driving cars
SAN FRANCISCO — Uber is teaming up with Toyota to build self-driving cars for its ride-hailing service after its efforts to do it alone were derailed by a fatal collision and allegations of high-tech theft.Toyota, based in Japan, is also investing $500 million in Uber as part of the alliance announced Monday.The deal aims to combine the best features from the two companies’ work on autonomous technology into cars that will be picking up Uber’s customers by 2021. (AP)By the time that happens, Ube
World BusinessAug. 28, 2018
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[Graphic News] South Korean beer exports to China surge
South Korea's beer exports to China more than doubled in 2017 from the previous year, but exports of other alcohol dropped steeply, industry data showed. South Korea shipped $50.2 million worth of beer to China in 2017, more than twice as much as $23.9 million tallied in the preceding year, figures provided by the Korea Agro-Fisheries & Food Corp. showed. The volume of exports, likewise, rose to 65.03 million liters from 31.61 million liters, and the unit price of the exports edged up to $0.77
World BusinessAug. 27, 2018
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[Newsmaker] China’s transport ministry censures Didi after murder
BEIJING (AFP) -- China’s transport ministry on Sunday slammed Didi Chuxing’s safety lapses as the ride-hailing giant said it would suspend its Hitch service after the rape and murder of a passenger, the second such killing this year. A 20-year-old female passenger was raped and killed by her driver on Friday in the eastern city of Wenzhou, barely three months after a similar incident in May. “These two vicious incidents that have violated the life and safety of passengers has exposed the gaping
World BusinessAug. 27, 2018
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Pope 'begs for God's forgiveness' for sexual abuse scandal
DUBLIN (AFP) -- Pope Francis "begged for God's forgiveness" on Sunday for multiple abuse scandals within the Irish church but faced accusations by a former Vatican official that he had personally ignored allegations against senior clergy.In front of 45,000 supporters at the rain-soaked Knock shrine in the west of Ireland, the pope spoke of the "open wound" of the Church's sexual abuse scandal and demanded "firm and decisive" measures to find "truth and justice".Later Sunday he said Mass to tens
World NewsAug. 27, 2018
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Videogamer shoots 2 dead, kills self at tournament
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Two people were killed and 11 others wounded Sunday when a video game tournament competitor went on a shooting rampage before turning the gun on himself in the northern Florida city of Jacksonville, local police said.Sheriff Mike Williams named the suspect of the shooting at a Madden 19 American football eSports tournament as 24-year-old David Katz from Baltimore, Maryland. (AFP)"There were three deceased individuals at the scene, one of those being the suspect, who took hi
World NewsAug. 27, 2018
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Emmerson Mnangagwa sworn in as president of Zimbabwe
Emmerson Mnangagwa was officially sworn in as president of Zimbabwe on Sunday after winning a bitterly-contested election which was the country's first since the ousting of strongman Robert Mugabe.Mnangagwa, whose victory in the July 30 polls was challenged by the main opposition, pledged to "protect and promote the rights of Zimbabweans" at an inauguration ceremony attended by thousands of supporters at a stadium in Harare. (AFP)"I Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa swear that as president of the repu
World NewsAug. 27, 2018
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[Newsmaker] Pope in Ireland decries abuse cover-up, meets with victims
DUBLIN (AP) -- Pope Francis faced a lukewarm reception and scattered protests Saturday on his trip to Ireland, with even his vow to rid the church of the “scourge” of sexual abuse and his outrage at those “repugnant crimes” dismissed as a disappointment by some of Ireland’s wounded victims.But others who met with him in private left heartened that he would respond to their plight, including two of the thousands of children who were forcibly put up for adoption for the shame of having been born t
World NewsAug. 26, 2018
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War hero and presidential candidate John McCain has died
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. John McCain, who faced down his captors in a Vietnam prisoner of war camp with jut-jawed defiance and later turned his rebellious streak into a 35-year political career that took him to Congress and the Republican presidential nomination, died Saturday after battling brain cancer for more than a year. He was 81.McCain, with his irascible grin and fighter-pilot moxie, was a fearless and outspoken voice on policy and politics to the end, unswerving in his defense of democra
World NewsAug. 26, 2018
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Israel justifies killing MSF nurse on Gaza border
Israel said an MSF nurse shot at troops on the Gaza border this week, a charge the medical charity said Friday it was investigating as it confirmed the death of an employee. “Doctors Without Borders (MSF) confirms that one of its employees, Hani Mohammed Almajdalawi, was killed in Gaza on Monday, August 20, 2018,” the organisation said in a statement. “MSF is working to verify and understand the circumstances regarding this extremely serious incident, and is not able to comment further at this s
World NewsAug. 24, 2018
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US, China trade barbs after El Salvador cuts Taiwan ties
China lashed out on Friday at “irresponsible” US accusations that Beijing was destabilizing cross-Strait relations after El Salvador cut ties with Taiwan in favour of the Asian giant.The White House also scolded the Central American country in a statement released Thursday, warning that the decision was made in a “non-transparent fashion” and affects “the economic health and security of the entire Americas region”.Taiwan and China have been engaged for years in a diplomatic tug-of-war in develop
World NewsAug. 24, 2018
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Ukraine marks independence day with biggest ever military parade
Ukraine marked 27 years of independence Friday with its biggest ever military parade in central Kiev, as war continues against Russian-backed separatists in the country’s east. Around 4,500 servicemen, including dozens of representatives of foreign allies such as the United States and Great Britain, saluted Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko during the demonstration. Poroshenko used the occasion to argue for the vital role Ukraine plays in defending the borders of Europe. Without the territo
World NewsAug. 24, 2018