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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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[Herald Review] 'Gangnam B-Side' combines social realism with masterful suspense, performance
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Jung's paternity reveal exposes where Korea stands on extramarital babies
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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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24 people killed as tornado strikes Missouri: local media
Death toll may rise to 100CHICAGO, (AFP) - A tornado killed 24 people Sunday in the Missouri town of Joplin, local media reported, less than a month after twisterscarved a swathe of destruction through the US southeast.The Springfield News-Leader newspaper reported that Ryan Nicholls of the Springfield-Greene County office of emergency management confirmed that 24 people were killed.Joplin, locate
May 23, 2011
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Obama jolt unlikely to spark peace talks
WASHINGTON (AP) ― President Barack Obama is trying to shock the moribund Israeli-Palestinian peace process to life, but there is little chance the patient can be resuscitated anytime soon.The two sides are more dug in, further apart and less trustful of each other than at any point since Obama brought Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas together at the
May 22, 2011
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Spanish economy protests shake up local vote
MADRID (AFP) ― A wave of nationwide protests against soaring unemployment and the economic crisis overshadowed local elections in Spain on Sunday in which the ruling Socialist Party faced the prospect of a humiliating defeat.The predicted rout would be a bad omen for the party ahead of general elections scheduled for March 2012, when the conservative Popular Party is expected to romp back into off
May 22, 2011
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Yemeni leader says he’ll leave, warns of al-Qaida
SANAA (AP) ― Under pressure from protesters and regional allies, Yemen’s president said Saturday he will sign a deal to step down after 32 years in power. Still, he condemned the proposal as “a coup” and warned the U.S. and Europe that his departure will open the door for al-Qaida to seize control of the fragile nation on the edge of Arabia.The mixed signals from Yemen’s embattled president, Ali A
May 22, 2011
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Obama tends to old allies, new challenges
Europe visit seeks to define West's role in Arab world, global economyWASHINGTON (AP) ― Weaving together strands of pomp, policy and summitry, President Barack Obama’s weeklong European tour is all about tending to old friends in the Western alliance and securing their help with daunting challenges, from the political upheaval in the Mideast and North Africa to the protracted war in Afghanistan.Ob
May 22, 2011
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Gang blinds Indian woman, accused of witchcraft
May 22, 2011
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George W. Bush earns $15 million in speaking circuit
Former U.S. President George W. Bush racked up at least $15 million by delivering nearly 140 paid speeches since leaving office in Jan. 2009, according to reports.Bush spokesman David Sherzer told local news that he earned average fees of between $100,000 and $150,000 per speech.Though the numbers are high, Bush’s predecessor, former President Bill Clinton, earned even more.By the end of 2009 -- n
May 22, 2011
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Pakistan official: 15 killed in NATO tanker blast
AP -- A tanker carrying oil for NATO forces in Afghanistan exploded Saturday in northwestern Pakistan as people tried to siphon off some of its fuel, and 15 were killed, an official said. Separately, 14 NATO tankers were damaged in a bombing at a nearby border town, but no one was hurt.The incidents underscored the dangers linked to the vehicles that carry non-lethal supplies for Western troops in
May 21, 2011
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Saudi woman defies driving ban
Naijla al-Hariri drove non-stop for four days in a protest against Saudi government's ban on women drivers.JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — A Saudi mother said Sunday she defied a ban on women drivers in the ultra-conservative kingdom by getting behind the wheel for four days without being stopped.Najla al-Hariri, a housewife in her mid-30s, said she drove non-stop for four days in the streets of the Red Se
May 20, 2011
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‘EU to significantly expand Iran sanctions'
The European Union has agreed to significantly expand its sanctions against Iran over its refusal to freeze its disputed nuclear activities, European diplomats said Thursday.EU foreign ministers are expected to approve the new measures, which will add several subsidiaries of companies already on the sanctions list, at a meeting in Brussels on Monday, the diplomats said.(AFP)
May 19, 2011
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Schwarzenegger child report spurs media frenzy
BAKERSFIELD, California (AP) - The revelation that Arnold Schwarzenegger has an out-of-wedlock child with a former employee turned into a tabloid frenzy as scores of reporters and photographers swarmed a quiet suburban cul-de-sac in the middle of California farm country amid unconfirmed reports it was the home of the child's mother.The owner of the house, identified in property records as Mildred
May 19, 2011
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Third of Berlin univ students consider sex work
May 19, 2011
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Bin Laden photo fight pits White House vs. press
May 18, 2011
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Assad stands to gain from Israel unrest
Palestinians’ protest diverts world’s gaze from Syria’s growing troubles at homeBEIRUT (AP) ― A brief but deadly border incursion has broken more than 35 years of quiet along the Syria-Israel frontier ― and it could not have come at a better time for Syria’s embattled leader.Syrian President Bashar Assad has much to gain from the furor over Israeli soldiers opening fire on thousands of Arab protes
May 18, 2011
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Perp walks ordinary in U.S., outrage in France
NEW YORK (AP) ― A sea of cameras captured a rumpled, handcuffed, angry-looking Dominique Strauss-Kahn as plainclothes detectives took the International Monetary Fund head from a police precinct to court. The images weren’t unusual for a high-profile criminal case in the U.S., but in his French homeland, they’d be illegal.While American authorities have condoned such “perp walks” (short for perpetr
May 18, 2011
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IMF head isolated, on suicide watch
NEW YORK (AP) ― Guards at New York City’s massive Rikers Island jail complex are taking unusual precautions to make sure IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn doesn’t come to any harm behind bars.The 62-year-old banker and diplomat has a whole jail wing to himself, a medical device to make sure he doesn’t stop breathing during the night and guards checking him 24 hours a day to make sure he doesn’t kil
May 18, 2011
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Egyptian ministry orders release of Mubarak’s wife
CAIRO (AP) ― Egypt’s Justice Ministry on Tuesday ordered the wife of deposed President Hosni Mubarak released from custody without bail, after she relinquished her disputed assets.Suzanne Mubarak, 70, has turned over her property and money to the state valued at some $4 million. The move aimed to settle corruption allegations against her, but it was unclear whether she still faces trial.In a state
May 18, 2011
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U.K.’s queen honors Irish nationalists
May 18, 2011
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Al-Qaida appoints acting leader
May 18, 2011
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What TEPCO aims to achieve
May 18, 2011