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Actor Jung Woo-sung admits to being father of model Moon Ga-bi’s child
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Industry experts predicts tough choices as NewJeans' ultimatum nears
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Opposition chief acquitted of instigating perjury
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Seoul city opens emergency care centers
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[Exclusive] Hyundai Mobis eyes closer ties with BYD
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Jung's paternity reveal exposes where Korea stands on extramarital babies
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[Herald Review] 'Gangnam B-Side' combines social realism with masterful suspense, performance
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Why S. Korean refiners are reluctant to import US oil despite Trump’s energy push
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Agency says Jung Woo-sung unsure on awards attendance after lovechild revelations
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Prosecutors seek 5-year prison term for Samsung chief in merger retrial
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Diners who use big forks eat less: study
(AFP) WASHINGTON — Researchers have found a new way to control the amount we eat: use a bigger fork.While numerous studies have focused on portion sizes and their influence on how much we eat, researchers Arul and Himanshu Mishra and Tamara Masters looked at how bite sizes affect quantities ingested.To do this, they conducted field research in a popular Italian restaurant in the southwestern Unite
July 15, 2011
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Serial bombings in Mumbai kill 17, wound 131
Indian militant group suspected for worst terrorist attacks in India since 2008MUMBAI, India (AP) ― Three coordinated bombings tore through the heart of India’s busy financial capital during rush hour Wednesday, killing 17 people and wounding 131 in the worst terrorist attack in the country since the 2008 Mumbai siege.Bloody bodies were strewn in the dirt of Mumbai’s crowded neighborhoods and mark
July 14, 2011
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Karzai killing highlights Afghanistan’s ‘strongman’ problem
July 14, 2011
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Russia lays out ‘step-by-step’ approach on Iran
July 14, 2011
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U.S. begins drawdown of troops from Afghanistan
BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan (AP) ― The first troops to leave Afghanistan as part of the U.S. drawdown handed over their slice of battlefield Wednesday to a unit less than half their size and started packing for home.When the 650 members of the Iowa National Guard’s 1st Squadron, 113th Cavalry Regiment arrived in Afghanistan in November 2010, bases didn’t have enough housing, translators were in
July 14, 2011
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Parents on a trial as a pet python kills two-year-old daughter
A mother is facing up to 35 years in jail for third-degree murder after her 2-year-old daughter was strangled by a pet python that escaped from its terrarium, the Daily Mail reported.Jaren Hare and her 34-year-old boyfriend, Jason Darnell, are charged with manslaughter and child abuse in the 2009 death of Shaianna Hare.Documents reveal the couple had not fed the 2.6-meter Burmese python for a mont
July 14, 2011
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8-year-old Brooklyn boy is killed and dismembered
NEW YORK (AP) _ An 8-year-old Brooklyn boy who got lost while walking home alone from day camp in his Orthodox Jewish neighborhood was killed and dismembered by a stranger he had asked for directions, and his remains were found stuffed in a trash bin and the man's refrigerator, police said Wednesday.The gruesome killing of Leiby Kletzky shocked the tight-knit Hasidic community in Borough Park, in
July 14, 2011
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U.S. cautious about N. Korea's growing ties with western media
With North Korea seen as opening its door wider to western media, the United States government maintained a cautious view Wednesday on the reclusive communist nation's latest gesture.The London-based news agency Reuters announced earlier this week that it was planning a video news service in North Korea in partnership with its propaganda news agency, KCNA.The move comes a couple of weeks after the
July 14, 2011
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Japan P.M.’s ratings at record low 15 percent
TOKYO (AFP) ― Support for the cabinet of Japan’s Prime Minister Naoto Kan has plunged to 15 percent, the lowest level since his center-left party took power in 2009, a newspaper poll said Tuesday.Seventy percent of voters want Kan ― under pressure over his handling of the March 11 quake, tsunami and nuclear disaster ― to resign before parliament enters a recess late next month, said the Asahi Shim
July 13, 2011
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Syria slams ‘provocative’ Clinton comments
Beirut says Assad’s legitimacy is from Syrian people’s willBEIRUT (AP) ― Syria accused Washington of provocation Tuesday after the U.S. said President Bashar Assad had lost legitimacy and the American administration had nothing invested in him remaining in power.U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton issued her strongest condemnation yet of Assad late Monday after mobs of hundreds of regim
July 13, 2011
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Cyprus protesters enter presidential palace grounds
NICOSIA (AP) ― Hundreds of angry marchers forced their way into the grounds of the Cypriot presidential palace in Nicosia late Tuesday, during a protest over a fatal blast at a naval base that killed 12, wrecked a key power plant and forced the resignations of the defense minister and top military chief.Protesters chanting “the people demand that the murderers are thrown in jail” were stopped at a
July 13, 2011
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Cameron weakened by phone hacking scandal
P.M.’s apparent closeness with News Corp. staff leads to doubts on leadershipLONDON (AP) ― He’s looked defensive. He’s looked outraged. He’s looked scared. But recently, Prime Minister David Cameron has rarely looked like he’s in charge.The British leader has lost his confident aura as his friendships with figures central to the tabloid hacking scandal hand his government its biggest crisis since
July 13, 2011
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Three children stuck in a car at 40℃ while mother goes shopping
A British mother has been accused of leaving her three children unattended in a sweltering car for 45 minutes while she went shopping, the Daily Mail reported.Kelly Langham, 26, abandoned her three kids aged two, five and eight to go to a Cash Converter store as the temperature inside the car rose to 40 degrees Celsius.A witness reported that the youngest child was strapped into a car seat and was
July 13, 2011
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Syria’s Assad has lost legitimacy, Clinton says
July 12, 2011
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Chinese general blasts U.S. military
BEIJING (AFP) ― China’s top military officer said Monday the timing of U.S. naval exercises in the South China Sea was “inappropriate,” after talks with his American counterpart aimed at cooling the territorial dispute.General Chen Bingde urged the United States to be “more modest and prudent in words and deeds”, amid growing tensions over China’s claims in the strategic and potentially resource-r
July 12, 2011
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‘Iranian weapons used against U.S. troops’
Panetta urges Iraq’s decision on whether it wants American soldiers to stayBAGHDAD (AP) ― A blunt and frustrated U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta expressed exasperation Monday with Iraqi indecision on whether it wants U.S. troops to stay next year. He threatened stronger U.S. action to stop Iranian-supplied weapons from killing Americans as they prepare to depart.To reinforce the message of con
July 12, 2011
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Brown was victim of phone-hacks: report
British police under scrutiny as scandal grows biggerLONDON (AFP) ― British lawmakers were to grill police chiefs Tuesday amid reports that royalty and ex-prime minister Gordon Brown were targeted in a phone-hacking scandal that felled Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World.Four past and present senior Scotland Yard officers were due to appear before a home affairs committee as the scandal spiraled an
July 12, 2011
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Julian Assange back in court to fight extradition
LONDON (AP) ― WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was due back in court Tuesday for the latest installation of his fight against extradition to Sweden, where the 40-year-old Australian is accused of rape and molestation.Assange’s disclosures of classified U.S. documents has infuriated the Pentagon, embarrassed State Department diplomats and energized critics of American foreign policy, but allegation
July 12, 2011
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Whoa, baby! Texas mom delivers 16-pound newborn
LONGVIEW, Texas (AP) -- A Texas mom expected a big baby, but nothing like this: 16 pounds, 1 ounce (7.3 kilograms).Janet Johnson on Monday remained in an East Texas hospital after giving birth to what her doctors called one of the biggest newborns they've ever seen. She was awaiting word on whether her son, JaMichael Brown, ranked among the biggest births in state history.This photo provided by Go
July 12, 2011
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High levels of caesium found in Fukushima beef
This file photo shows a Japanese woman browsing for beef in a food hall in Tokyo. (Bloomberg)More than six times the legal limit of radioactive caesium has been found in beef from Fukushima prefecture, home to Japan's crippled nuclear plant, an official statement said Saturday.The meat came from one of 11 cows shipped this month to Tokyo from a farmer in Minamisoma city, according to the statement
July 12, 2011