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Now is no time to add pressure on businesses: top executives
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CJ CheilJedang to spur overseas growth with new Hungary, US plants
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Seoul to host winter festival from Dec. 13
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Nationwide rail disruptions feared as union plans strike from Dec. 5
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Blackpink's solo journeys: Complementary paths, not competition
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N. Korea, Russia court softer image: From animal diplomacy to tourism
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[Today’s K-pop] Blackpink’s Jennie, Lisa invited to Coachella as solo acts
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Smugglers caught disguising 230 tons of Chinese black beans as diesel exhaust fluid
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Actor Song Joong-ki welcomes second child in Rome
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Korean Air offers special flights for mileage users
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U.S. judge OKs felony charges over Facebook posts
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A judge has upheld felony charges against a woman accused of using Facebook to try to find someone to kill her baby's father and against a teenager accused of offering to do the job for $1,000. (MCT)A defense lawyer argued that 20-year-old London Eley of Philadelphia was only ve
Aug. 16, 2011
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Rapper could face charges tied to flash mob calls
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Los Angeles County prosecutors will decide this week whether to press charges against The Game, after a tweet from the rapper's account incited a telephone flash mob that overwhelmed the emergency phone system at a sheriff's station.Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said Sunday
Aug. 15, 2011
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Crackdown on gladiator impersonators in Rome
ROME (AP) -- Undercover police have donned togas, capes and sandals to stop a turf battle among Italians who impersonate gladiators outside the Colosseum and other landmarks in Rome and make money by posing for camera carrying tourists. (AP-Yonhap News)The trade has been tolerated for years, but tha
Aug. 14, 2011
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Man fired for washing himself with own urine
VIENNA (AP) -- A famed Austrian museum has fired an employee for washing his hands and face with his urine.Alfred Zoppelt says he was fired after 23 years of working as an attendant at the Belvedere, a castle in Vienna with a major art works. He says his adherence to urine therapy was previous
Aug. 12, 2011
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N.Z. school discovers real skeleton in closet
WELLINGTON (AFP) - Teachers at a New Zealand school received a macabre surprise when they realised a supposedly plastic skeleton to be used in anatomy lessons was actually a real set of human bones, a report said Thursday.Totara North School principal Bastienne Kruger had removed the skeleton from s
Aug. 11, 2011
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Boy hangs self after watching samurai film
An 8-year-old British boy was found hanged after viewing a film that features suicides. Lewis McGlynn had been watching the 2003 Tom Cruise film “The Last Samurai,” when his father discovered him hanging from his bedroom door, the Daily Mail reported Thursday. A scene from "The Last Samurai"His fami
Aug. 11, 2011
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Girl shoots her sister in fight over cell phone
An American girl was charged with murdering her younger sister after shooting her during a quarrel over a cell phone. (A scene from Fox News)Elena Rendell, 17, shoot at her 14-year-old sister, Christina, on the neck with a 9 mm pistol after they had an argument at their home in Pensacola, Flori
Aug. 10, 2011
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Woman with PhD in statistics wins lottery four times
A woman from Texas has reportedly won the lottery four times, prompting interest towards the secret of the unbelievable luck.Joan R. Gither, 63, has won four fortunes worth millions of dollars in the span of 15 years. First she won $5.4 million in 1993, and 10 years later $2 million. Then, another t
Aug. 9, 2011
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New Zealander sucked into plane engine and killed
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A 51-year-old engineer working at an airplane testing facility has been sucked into an engine and killed.Domestic carrier Air New Zealand confirmed the man was performing routine maintenance on a Lockheed C-130 Hercules airplane engine just after 8 a.m. Monday at
Aug. 8, 2011
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Three killed in Malaysia landslide: report
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) -- Three women were killed and three more people feared still buried under debris Monday by a landslide near Malaysia‘s Cameron Highlands tourist spot, the official Bernama news agency said.The landslide late Sunday afternoon buried several houses in a village in the region, which
Aug. 8, 2011
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Malaysia-bound Nigerian drug trafficker dies aboard plane
LAGOS(AFP) - A Malaysia-bound Nigerian drug smuggler died aboard an aircraft, forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing in India, the anti-drug agency said Saturday.The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency said 25-year-old Chilaka Ogbonna Emmanuel was flying from Lagos on Tuesday for Malaysia v
Aug. 7, 2011
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University graduates still earn more: survey
University graduates earn significantly more than high school graduates, a labor ministry survey showed Friday as the government leads a campaign to increase hiring of those without university diplomas.Employees sporting a four-year university degree earned an average of 17,170 won (US$16.1) an hour
Aug. 5, 2011
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Shepherd demanding sex without shower found guilty of rape
Italy’s Supreme Court ruled a shepherd, who forcefully had sexual intercourse with his wife without taking a shower, guilty of rape, ANSA reported on Thursday.The 51-year-old shepherd, whose name has not been revealed, had imposed sex on his wife from 1992 to 2006, ignoring her pleas to wash first.T
Aug. 5, 2011
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Australian teenager safe after 'bomb' drama
SYDNEY (AFP) -- Australian bomb squad officers Wednesday safely removed a teenager from a "suspicious device" media reports said had been strapped around her neck, ending a 10-hour drama.Police officers, some wearing protective equipment, gather near the home of 18-year-old Madeleine Pulver in
Aug. 4, 2011
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Intern blackmails boss for not offering permanent position
A Japanese woman was reportedly arrested for threatening her boss by sending hate messages, Yomiuri Shimbun reported Sunday.The blackmailer Yamazaki Rinako, 21, had allegedly sent the word “to kill” about 10,000 times to her employer’s cellphone.She had sent 22 messages, which included the word 517
Aug. 2, 2011
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Chimpanzee bottle feeds tiger cubs
At the Samut Prakarn Crocodile Farm and Zoo, a 2-and-half-year-old male Chimpanzee named Dodo has been feeding a tiger cub every day for more than a year.At this Thai zoo located in Bangkok, Dodo picked up the habit when trainers wanted to challenge the chimp.The 35-year-old trainer Sirinaj taught D
Aug. 1, 2011
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Forgiven Iran acid attacker will not be blinded
TEHRAN (AFP) - An Iranian man convicted of throwing acid in the face of a female student who was to have been blinded himself on Sunday in retribution was pardoned by his victim, the state-run television website said."With the request of Ameneh Bahrami, the acid attack victim, Majid(Movahedi) who was sentenced for 'qesas' ('eye for an eye'-style justice) was pardoned at the last minute" after she
July 31, 2011
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Humane prison awaits Norwegian mass killer
Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik is likely to serve his jail term in one of the world’s best equipped and most “humane” prisons, according to news reports.Breivik has been accused of a shooting that killed 68 people and a bomb explosion that killed eight in Oslo.With rehabilitation instead of punishment being a guiding principle, the Norwegian penal system is the cushiest in the worl
July 29, 2011
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Man who can guess time could carry Olympic torch
Fans dedicated a Facebook group to a local celebrity to make him the town’s official Olympic torch bearer, according to reports. Gordon Roberts from Bournemouth, England, is getting the support of 4,500 people who plan to nominate him as their “inspirational member of the community.” With his trademark white beard, scarf and jacket, the 82-year-old is known as a “big part of the comm
July 28, 2011
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Woman stabbed to death over noisy party
A British man irritated by noise from a late night party allegedly stabbed a female guest to death and injured a male attendee.Heather Dyer, 22 years old, was declared dead at the scene on Saturday 2:30 a.m. (local time) after being stabbed in the chest twice. The other victim is currently in hospital in a serious condition.The murderer, whose name has not been released, was furious about the nois
July 26, 2011
