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Ex-presidential official’s leaked phone call rattles conservative bloc
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Man escapes DUI charges by downing bottle of soju while pulled over
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Pay debate plagues foreign nanny pilot
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K-pop star lip-syncing controversy flares up again
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35% of S. Koreans view unification 'unnecessary'
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Slew of top K-pop stars ready to return from military
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S. Korea, US clinch 2026-30 defense cost-sharing deal in pre-election push
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[Reporter’s Notebook] Was Netflix film opening BIFF really a bad thing?
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N. Korean leader's sister derides Seoul's Hyunmoo-5 missile as 'useless'
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Controversial cult leader’s sentence reduced to 17 years
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Indonesia establishes carbon deal with Japan
Japan and Indonesia signed a bilateral agreement to offset emissions under the Joint Crediting Mechanism, a carbon trading program.The bilateral offset credit mechanism will allow Japanese companies to earn carbon credits by helping Indonesia cut carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.The program is similar to the Clean Development Mechanism ― a carbon credit scheme under the Kyoto Protocol ― except for its requirement for companies to go through a United Nations screening process instead of a bilateral
Sept. 2, 2013
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Chinese premier pledges to prioritize education, sci-tech
China’s government will continue to prioritize and invest in education, and enhance science and technology, to stabilize and transform the slowing economy, Premier Li Keqiang said.“China should place education, science and technology in strategic positions and view them from an overall perspective,” Li said during the national science, technology and education leadership group’s first meeting. Li is the group’s leader.“To upgrade China’s economy and build the nation into a prosperous and harmoni
Sept. 2, 2013
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Malaysia fights illegal immigration
They were found crouched in concealed rooms, secret compartments in ceilings, behind walls and even under floorboards.But they did not remain hidden for long and were among the more than 1,000 illegal immigrants nabbed in the nation’s biggest-ever operation to flush out unwanted foreigners.The operation, code named Ops 6P Bersepadu, began at midnight on Saturday.It was conducted by enforcement personnel from the Immigration Department, police, Armed Forces, Rela, Civil Defense, National Registr
Sept. 2, 2013
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Egypt's Morsi to be tried for inciting violence
Egypt's top prosecutor on Sunday referred ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi to trial on charges of inciting the killing of opponents protesting outside his palace while he was in office, the state news agency said. The military ousted Morsi on July 3 after millions took to the streets demanding that he step down. He's been held incommunicado since. Despite other accusations by prosecutors, the decision Sunday is Morsi's first referral to trial. No date was announced for the trial.Morsi wi
Sept. 2, 2013
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Syria dismisses Obama as confused, moves troops
Syria on Sunday derided President Barack Obama's decision to hold off on punitive military strikes, but also took precautions by reportedly moving some troops and military equipment to civilian areas.The Obama administration countered that its case for military action against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad is getting stronger, saying it now has evidence that the toxic gas allegedly used in strikes on rebel-held areas was the nerve agent sarin.The administration predicted Sunday it w
Sept. 2, 2013
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Liquid ammonia leak kills at least 15 in Shanghai
BEIJING (AP) ― At least 15 people were killed Saturday after liquid ammonia leaked from a refrigeration unit at a cold storage plant in China’s financial hub of Shanghai, the local government said. Twenty-five people were injured in the accident, which happened at a plant in the Baoshan district of the east coast city, the Shanghai government Information Office said. Five of the injured were in serious condition. The government identified the plant as Weng’s Cold Storage Industrial Co. Ltd., but
Sept. 1, 2013
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New Delhi gang rape teenager convicted
NEW DELHI (AP) ― An Indian juvenile court on Saturday handed down the first conviction in the fatal gang rape of a young woman on a moving New Delhi bus, convicting a teenager of rape and murder and sentencing him to three years in a reform home, lawyers said. The victim’s parents denounced the sentence, which was the maximum the defendant faced. The family had long insisted the teen, who was 17 at the time of the December attack and is now 18, be tried as an adult ― and thus face the death pena
Sept. 1, 2013
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Top Chinese official under investigation
BEIJING (AFP) ― A high-ranking Chinese official who oversees state-owned firms is being probed for “serious disciplinary violations,” official media reported Sunday, as the country’s new leaders intensify a clampdown on corruption.The investigation of Jiang Jiemin follows several graft cases against top officials and the dramatic trial of fallen Communist Party heavyweight Bo Xilai for alleged bribery, embezzlement and abuse of power.In a brief dispatch, the state-run Xinhua news agency said Jia
Sept. 1, 2013
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Egyptian forces arrest top Sinai militant
CAIRO (AP) ― Egyptian security forces said they arrested Saturday a top wanted militant in the Sinai Peninsula, while authorities reported a failed attempt to disrupt traffic on the strategic Suez Canal but gave scant detail. Canal authority chairman Mohab Mamish said a “terrorist element” had tried to disrupt navigation in the waterway by targeting a Panama-flagged ship. In comments carried by official news agency MENA, he said the attempt was “completely unsuccessful” and the container carrier
Sept. 1, 2013
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Philippine leader stresses media’s role
MANILA ― Philippine President Benigno Aquino III said coverage of a high-profile graft scandal that has prompted massive protests in the Philippines was evidence of the growing importance of media.Aquino referred to the “interplay” between the government and the media in the arrest of Janet Lim-Napoles, a businesswoman suspected of helping divert several billion pesos from poverty-reduction government programs in coordination with several lawmakers. The Philippine Daily Inquirer exposed the scan
Sept. 1, 2013
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Merkel, election rival face off in TV debate
BERLIN (AFP) ― German Chancellor Angela Merkel were to come face-to-face in a television clash Sunday with her center-left election rival, confronting Peer Steinbrueck whom she has studiously ignored on the campaign trail.In what has been billed as the primetime TV event of the year, Steinbrueck was to have a last-ditch chance to close a yawning poll gap against the popular Merkel.With three weeks to go to election day, the brash, straight-talking but gaffe-prone Social Democrat, who once served
Sept. 1, 2013
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Possible U.S.-led attack on Syria sparks rallies
HOUSTON (AP) ― Protesters around the world took to the streets Saturday to protest for and against a possible U.S.-led attack on Syria as President Barack Obama announced he would seek congressional approval for such a move. Obama said the United States should take action against Syria to punish it for what it says was a deadly chemical attack that killed more than 1,400 people launched by Syrian President Bashar Assad this month, but he wants Congress to debate the issue and take a vote. Obama
Sept. 1, 2013
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Hillary Clinton tops Obama in gifts from foreign leaders
WASHINGTON (AP) ― Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton outpaced President Barack Obama last year in receiving lavish gifts from foreign leaders.Clinton received gold jewelry worth half a million dollars from King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. The State Department said the gift included a necklace bracelet, ring and earrings. The white gold was adorned with teardrop rubies and diamonds. Clinton also got gold, sapphire and diamond jewelry worth $58,000 from Brunei’s queen.Obama’s most expe
Sept. 1, 2013
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Mandela discharged from hospital, returns home
Nelson Mandela, 95, was discharged from the hospital on Sunday while still in critical condition and was taken by ambulance to his Johannesburg home where he will receive intensive care, the office of South Africa's president said. On a sunny but cold morning, an ambulance took the anti-apartheid leader home from the hospital in the capital, Pretoria, where he had been since June 8 when he was admitted for what the government has described as a recurring lung infection. Mandela's condition "is
Sept. 1, 2013
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Indian soldier's body found in Himalayas after 45 years
The body of an Indian soldier who died in a plane crash 45 years ago has been found in the Himalayas and will be given a military funeral, the army said Sunday. A team found the soldier's body, still wearing a uniform with personal identification documents in the pocket, on August 22 -- more than four decades after he and 97 others died when an army transport aircraft crashed in February 1968. The man, identified as Jagmail Singh, came from Meerpur village in Haryana state south of the Himalay
Sept. 1, 2013
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David Frost, known for Nixon interview, dies at 74
David Frost had sparred with Richard Nixon for hours, recording a series of interviews with the former president three years after he stepped down in disgrace over Watergate. But as the sessions drew to a close, Frost realized he still lacked something: an acknowledgement by Nixon that he had been wrong.Nixon had admitted making mistakes, but Frost put down his clipboard and pressed his subject on whether that was enough. Americans, he said, wanted to hear him own up to his misdeeds and acknowle
Sept. 1, 2013
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Obama puts Syria strike on hold, opposition 'disappointed'
Syria's opposition expressed disappointment Sunday that President Barack Obama had put on hold military action against the Damascus regime, but said it was confident US lawmakers would green-light a strike. To general surprise, the US leader on Saturday broke with decades of precedent to announce that he would seek approval from Congress for action against Syria's alleged use of chemical weapons. This effectively pushed military action back until at least September 9, when US lawmakers retur
Sept. 1, 2013
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Missing Samsung TVs discovered in Germany
Samsung Electronics Co.'s organic light-emitting diode (OLED) televisions that disappeared during their delivery to the IFA electronics trade show in Berlin last year have recently been discovered in Germany, company officials said Sunday, adding that local police are looking into the case for its possible link to a technology leak.Two of Samsung's 60 display OLED TV sets went missing after being shipped from the company's plant in Suwon south of Seoul to the site of the IFA 2012 in Germany in A
Sept. 1, 2013
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Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood ramps up calls for protests
CAIRO (AP) ― The Muslim Brotherhood ramped up its calls Thursday for nationwide protests against Egypt’s military-backed government, while an Islamist ally of the ousted president spoke of an attempt to broker a deal before the “ship of the nation sinks.” The Brotherhood’s call for mass protests and sit-ins Friday will test how much the fierce security crackdown has crippled the group and if they can still mobilize their base in the face of widespread public anger against them. Egypt’s security
Aug. 30, 2013
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Wildfire spreads into Yosemite
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) ― The wildfire threatening Yosemite National Park is spreading further into the U.S. tourist landmark, officials said Thursday as they battled to stop it clouding a holiday weekend.Efforts to contain the so-called Rim Fire, which has grown to become California’s sixth-biggest wildfire ever, were also being boosted by the deployment of a military drone approved by the Pentagon.The fire, which now covers more than 192,000 acres and is 30 percent contained, has also threatened S
Aug. 30, 2013