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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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Japan’s TEPCO says shutdown on schedule
TOKYO (AFP) ― Japan’s Tokyo Electric Power Company on Tuesday said its plan to end the crisis at its stricken nuclear plant was on schedule, despite signs that damage to the facility was worse than initially thought.The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station said it still expected to reduce radiation leaks by July and bring its reactors to a stable cold shutdown by January at the
May 18, 2011
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Fields of watermelon burst in China farm fiasco
Watermelons have been bursting by the score in eastern China after farmers gave them overdoses of growth chemicals during wet weather, creating what state media called fields of ``land mines.''About 20 farmers around Danyang city in Jiangsu province were affected, losing up to 115 acres (45 hectares) of melon, China Central Television said in an investigative report.Prices over the past year promp
May 18, 2011
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Israel’s Netanyahu takes aim at Hamas
JERUSALEM (AP) ― Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday took a tough line toward an emerging Palestinian government ahead of a high-profile trip to Washington, saying “those that want to destroy us are not partners in peace.”Netanyahu reiterated a willingness to agree to a Palestinian state under certain conditions but made clear he did not believe it was possible if the Islamic milit
May 17, 2011
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Sarkozy cynical on Strauss-Kahn scandal
(Nicolas Sarkozy)When French President Nicolas Sarkozy was briefed on the arrest of IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn on sexual assault charges, his first response would have been a kind of “I told you so!” French daily Le Parisien reported, citing his aides.The guess is based on the cynical comments Sarkozy made one year ago regarding a sexual scandal involving the head of the international bank.A
May 17, 2011
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French leaders plagued by sex scandals
The U.S. magazine Foreign Policy has chronicled French political leaders’ sex scandals after Dominique Strauss-Kahn‘s arrest. Following are excerpts from the report.IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn is seen at Manhattan Criminal Court, in New York, on Monday. (AFP-Yonhap News)Felix FaureFelix Faure who was president of France from 1895 to 1899 died mysteriously on Feb. 16, 1899. He was alone in a dr
May 17, 2011
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Strauss-Kahn lawyers see alibi in sex case - radio
May 16, 2011
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Strauss-Kahn sex crime case shocks world
NEW YORK (AP) ― Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s reputation with women earned him the nickname “the great seducer,” and not even an affair with a subordinate could knock the International Monetary Fund leader off a political path pointed in the direction of the French presidency. All that changed with charges that he sexually assaulted a maid in his hotel room, a case that generated shock and revulsion, e
May 16, 2011
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China gives press freedom ― on food safety
Looser controls on food reporting could signal broader media reformBEIJING (AP) ― Toxic bean sprouts, filthy cooking oil, drug-tainted pork: The relentless headlines in Chinese media have churned up queasy feelings for months about the dangers lurking in the nation’s dinner bowls.The stories are grim reading but show China’s usually strict censors are allowing the press more latitude to help it mo
May 16, 2011
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Shanghai's 1-dog limit causes anguish for owners
(MCT)SHANGHAI (AP) _ China's largest city is setting a limit of one dog per family in an effort to gain control over the soaring pet population and curb rabies.Cao Yi already was walking her dogs at 11 p.m., hoping to avoid trouble both with neighbors and with the authorities over her brown poodle and golden retriever.``I'm afraid one of the dogs might be taken away,'' she said.The rule that takes
May 16, 2011
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Minister won't rule out Strauss-Kahn set-up
PARIS (AFP) - A French government minister said Sunday he could not rule out that IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn's arrest for alleged sexual assault was the result of a set-up with political motives."We cannot rule out the thought of a trap," Henri de Raincourt, minister for overseas cooperation in President Nicolas Sarkozy's government, said in a broadcast interview."I refuse to have a personal
May 16, 2011
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Palestinians, Israeli riot police clash over death of teenage stone thrower
JERUSALEM (AP) ― Masked Palestinians whirling slingshots clashed with Israeli riot police in two Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem on Saturday after the shooting death of a teenage stone thrower. It was a sign of rising tensions on the eve of Palestinian commemorations of their uprooting during Israel’s 1948 creation.The possibility of escalation comes at a critical time for U.S. Mideast policy. Pre
May 15, 2011
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Worker at Japan's tsunami-hit nuclear plant dies
(AP) The operator of Japan's tsunami-wrecked nuclear power plant said a contract worker in his 60s died Saturday after collapsing at the facility's waste disposal building, adding that his body showed no signs of dangerous levels of radioactivity. The man was carrying equipment at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant when he collapsed. He died later in hospital, said Tokyo Electric Power Co. sp
May 14, 2011
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Libya rebels seek U.S. funds
May 13, 2011
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Assad ‘orders no shooting on rallies’
May 13, 2011
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Obama requests FBI chief to stay
May 13, 2011
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Police: 68 killed in bombings in NW Pakistan
Twin explosions struck a paramilitary training center in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 68 people _ nearly all recruits _ in the bloodiest attack in the country since a U.S. raid killed al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden.A suicide bomber detonated at least one of the blasts at the main gate of the facility for the Frontier Constabulary, a poorly equipped but front-line force in Paki
May 13, 2011
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How bin Laden emailed without being detected by US
Despite having no Internet access in his hideout, Osama bin Laden was a prolific email writer who built a painstaking system that kept him one step ahead of the U.S. government's best eavesdroppers.His methods, described in new detail to The Associated Press by a counterterrorism official and a second person briefed on the U.S. investigation, served him well for years and frustrated Western effort
May 13, 2011
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After bin Laden death, a boom in SEAL imposters
VIRGINIA BEACH, Virginia, May 11, 2011 (AFP) - In the fortnight since elite US Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden, faux commandos wearing the SEALs' gold trident and medals on their chests have been popping up all over the place. SEAL members (AFP-Yonhap News)SEALs have been spotted in improbable places like a church in Pennsylvania, on Greyhound buses, in Wal-Marts and at fastfood restaurants.A ma
May 12, 2011
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‘Romney, Gingrich change Republican race’
Both men have legitimate chances; upcoming public appearances suggest the race is getting seriousWASHINGTON (AP) ― A health care speech by Mitt Romney and a formal announcement that Newt Gingrich is running mark a turn toward the substantive in the Republican presidential race.The change cannot happen too soon for the party after a series of events that did little to suggest it is ready to take on
May 12, 2011
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Bin Laden’s journal seized in U.S. raid
Diary shows Osama eyed new targets, big body countWASHINGTON (AP) ― Osama bin Laden kept pressing followers to find new ways to hit the U.S. while he was deep in hiding and his terror organization was becoming battered and fragmented, officials say, citing his private journal and other documents recovered in last week’s raid.Strike smaller cities, bin Laden suggested. Target trains as well as plan
May 12, 2011