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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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'1 million' Christians join anti-LGBTQ+ marriage rally
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SM founder Lee Soo-man is back with A2O Entertainment
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Nationwide probe after Tokyo med school excludes women
TOKYO - Japan Friday launched an unprecedented probe into gender discrimination at all the nation's medical universities after a Tokyo medical school admitted altering the entrance test results of female applicants to exclude them.The education ministry has asked all 81 private and public medical schools to check their admission procedures for possible discrimination against female applicants.Authorities said they would also check the gender ratio of successful applicants for the past six months
World NewsAug. 10, 2018
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Four killed in shooting in Canadian town: police
MONTREAL - Four people were killed on Friday in a shooting in the eastern Canadian town of Fredericton, police said.Police urged people in the area of the shooting to remain in their homes, describing it as an "active incident" on Twitter around an hour after giving first word of the killings.The circumstances of the shooting in the capital of New Brunswick province were not immediately known.The Canadian broadcaster CBC said that the shooting happened in a residential area of the city and that
World NewsAug. 10, 2018
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Yemen in shock after Saudi-led strike on bus kills 29 children
DAHYAN, Yemen - The remains of victims and children's clothing were strewn across a market in northern Yemen on Friday, as the US and UN called for an investigation into an air strike the previous day by a Saudi-led coalition that killed 29 children on a bus. A Yemeni child stands on August 10, 2018 next to a destroyed bus, the target of a Saudi-led coalition air strike in Yemen's rebel-held Saada province. (AFP)Thursday's strike on a bus filled with children at the Dahyan market in the Huthi re
World NewsAug. 10, 2018
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Officials: Taliban try to take Afghan city, kill at least 14
KABUL, Afghanistan - Taliban fighters tried to overrun a provincial capital in Afghanistan early on Friday, hiding inside homes before slipping into city streets in the night to attack security forces and killing at least 14 policemen before being pushed back, officials said.The overnight attack in the southeastern city of Ghazni, the capital of a province with the same name, also wounded at least 20 members of the security forces, said Baz Mohammad Hemat, the administrator of the Ghazni city h
World NewsAug. 10, 2018
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Drive to curb salt intake should focus on China: study
Salt consumption exceeds national and World Health Organization guidelines in most countries, but only the highest-sodium diets, such as in China, are linked to clear health risks, researchers said Friday.Only individuals with a daily salt intake of at least 12.5 grammes -- about two-and-a-half teaspoons -- were associated with increased blood pressure and a greater risk of stroke, they reported in The Lancet, a medical journal.WHO recommends capping salt consumption at five grammes per day, but
World NewsAug. 10, 2018
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[Newsmaker] New Zealand to ban single-use plastic bags
New Zealand became the latest country Friday to outlaw single-use plastic shopping bags, with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern saying they will be phased out over the next year as a "meaningful step" towards reducing pollution.New Zealand uses "hundreds of millions" of single-use plastic bags each year, many of which end up harming marine life, Ardern said."We need to be far smarter in the way we manage waste and this is a good start," she said. "We're phasing-out single-use plastic bags so we can
World NewsAug. 10, 2018
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IOC disappointed UN won't grant North Korea sports exemption
LAUSANNE, Switzerland -- IOC President Thomas Bach says he is disappointed the United Nations will not allow sports equipment to be sent to North Korea.The International Olympic Committee's request was rejected by the U.N. Security Council Sanctions Committee.Bach says "this makes it more difficult for the IOC to accomplish its mission to bring athletes from all over the world together to promote understanding and friendship regardless of political background or any other differences."In a state
World NewsAug. 9, 2018
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[Graphic News] S. Korea 7th-largest consumer of energy in 2017
South Korea's energy consumption last year ranked seventh in the world, and showed one of the fastest paces of increase, data from a foreign consulting firm showed. South Korea consumed 534 terawatt hours last year, up 2.3 percent from the previous year, according to the Europe-based Enerdata. The country's ranking in terms of the volume of power consumption also rose from eighth the previous year. The ranking was ninth in 2015. China used up 5,683 TWh, and the United States 3,808 TWh. India fo
World NewsAug. 9, 2018
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Firefighters make progress in California but weather not promising
Thousands of firefighters, backed by US troops and crews from as far away as Australia and New Zealand, were on Wednesday making progress battling the biggest wildfire on record in California -- but the weather forecast for the rest of the week is not promising, officials said.Nearly 20 major fires have ravaged the sprawling western state over the past two weeks, fanned by strong winds and sweltering temperatures.The wildfires have left at least nine people dead, including four firefighters, and
World NewsAug. 9, 2018
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Chile’s Michelle Bachelet to be new UN human rights chief
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Secretary-General Antonio Guterres selected Chile’s former President Michelle Bachelet on Wednesday to be the next UN human rights chief, a high profile and often controversial job that has sparked criticism from governments targeted for rights abuses.Guterres sent a note to the General Assembly announcing his choice of Bachelet and urging approval by its 193 member states. Assembly President Miroslav Lajcak followed up, sending letters to all UN ambassadors saying a meeti
World NewsAug. 9, 2018
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‘Superman’ actress Margot Kidder’s death ruled a suicide
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- “Superman” actress Margot Kidder’s death has been ruled a suicide, and her daughter said Wednesday it’s a relief to finally have the truth out.Kidder, who played Lois Lane opposite Christopher Reeve’s Superman in her most famous role, was found by a friend in her Montana home on May 13.At the time, Kidder’s manager, Camilla Fluxman Pines, said Kidder died peacefully in her sleep. In this Oct. 3, 2000 file photo, actress Margot Kidder, who dated former Prime Minister Pierre
World NewsAug. 9, 2018
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Brad Pitt says he has given Jolie Pitt millions since split
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Brad Pitt said in court documents Wednesday that he has given estranged wife Angelina Jolie Pitt more than $1 million and lent her another $8 million since their separation two years ago, countering her assertion from a day earlier saying he has paid "no meaningful child support."Pitt's attorneys said in the two-page document filed in Los Angeles Superior Court that he "adamantly disputes the contention that he has not paid significant child support." The document added that
World NewsAug. 9, 2018
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[Graphic News] Germany is top beer producer in EU
Last year, 41 billion liters of beer containing alcohol were produced in the European Union. Two-thirds of the beer containing alcohol produced in the EU came from six member states. With production of 8.1 billion liters, or 20 percent of the EU's total production, Germany was the top producer in 2017. Germany was followed by the United Kingdom (5.6 billion liters produced, or 14 percent), Poland (4 billion liters, or 10 percent), Spain (3.9 billion liters, or 9 percent), the Netherlands (3.6
World NewsAug. 8, 2018
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[Graphic News] Huawei overtakes Apple to become world's No. 2 smartphone maker, Samsung still No. 1
China-based Huawei overtook Apple to claim the No. 2 spot in the global smartphone market in the second quarter of the year, according to International Data Corp. South Korean consumer electronics titan Samsung remained the top smartphone maker, shipping 73 million handsets, according to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. Huawei rose to second place with shipments of 54 million units. Silicon Valley-based Apple shipped 41 million iPhones, claiming 12.1 percent of the global market
World BusinessAug. 7, 2018
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Hiroshima marks 73rd anniversary of atomic bombing in WWII
TOKYO -- Hiroshima has marked the 73rd anniversary of the Aug. 6, 1945, atomic bombing with a somber ceremony to remember the people killed and injured and a call to eliminate nuclear weapons amid hopes of denuclearizing North Korea.Mayor Kazumi Matsui raised concerns in his peace address Monday about the rise of egocentric policies in the world and warned against the idea of nuclear deterrence as a threat to global security. Matsui urged leaders to steadily work toward achieving a world without
World NewsAug. 6, 2018
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[Newsmaker] Powerful quake rocks Indonesia’s Lombok island, 82 dead
MATARAM, Indonesia -- A powerful earthquake struck the Indonesian tourist island of Lombok on Sunday, killing at least 82 people and shaking neighboring Bali, one week after another quake on Lombok killed more than a dozen.The latest quake, which triggered a brief tsunami warning, damaged buildings as far away as Denpasar on Bali, including a department store and the airport terminal, where ceiling panels were shaken loose, authorities said.Debris on top of a motorcycles after an earthquake in B
World NewsAug. 6, 2018
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Hong Kong press club pressured by Beijing to cancel talk
Hong Kong's leader joined mainland China Sunday in urging the city's Foreign Correspondents' Club to cancel a planned speech by a Hong Kong independence advocate whose party is threatened with a ban."We respect the international media and respect the Foreign Correspondents' Club's activities in Hong Kong," said Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam, expressing "regret" at the planned event. "I hope our friends in the FCC will also respect that the Hong Kong SAR is an inseparable part of the Peopl
World NewsAug. 5, 2018
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[Graphic News] Miami named world's priciest Airbnb city
Miami and Boston took the top two spots in the average daily cost of lodging in private dwellings for the second straight year, according to Bloomberg index. Airbnb owners asked for $205 a night and $195 a night, respectively, in the two cities. The Middle East has been climbing in the annual index and this year has five destinations among the top 15 priciest global cities: Tel Aviv and Dubai at No. 4 and No. 5, and Jerusalem, Riyadh and Kuwait City also near the top.
World BusinessAug. 5, 2018
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[Graphic News] Terrorism soars in Europe
Terrorist attacks on European targets more than doubled last year, Europe's police agency said, warning that the risk of more unsophisticated attacks by the Islamic State group "remains acute." Last year, a total of 33 terror attacks were reported on the continent and Britain, 10 of which were successful -- killing 62 people -- while the rest were foiled or failed, Europol said in an annual report. That figure compared with 13 reported attacks in 2016, of which 10 were successful, leading to 13
World NewsAug. 2, 2018
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UK court ruling seen as landmark in right-to-die cases
Supreme Court in Parliament Square in London. (UK Supreme Court)LONDON (AP) -- Britain's highest court has ruled that the family of a patient in a persistently vegetative state does not need to seek a court's permission to have life support removed. The landmark ruling Monday comes in a case involving a man who suffered a brain injury. The 52-year-old man, identified as Mr. Y, has been in a coma since suffering a heart attack. Experts agreed that even if he had regained consciousness, he'd have
World NewsJuly 30, 2018