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Bombs in Baghdad, other Iraq attacks kill 45
A string of attacks across Iraq, including a coordinated wave of evening bombings in Baghdad, killed at least 45 people Monday as al-Qaida claimed responsibility for a recent spate of rare suicide attacks in the relatively peaceful Kurdish north.Monday's bombings marked the third day in a row that insurgents were able to unleash attacks powerful enough to claim fatalities numbering in the dozens. The mounting bloodshed is heightening worries that the country is returning to the widespread sectar

World News Oct. 8, 2013
S. Korea's economy shows signs of recovering: finance minister
South Korea's economy is showing signs of recovering from its prolonged slump, the country's top economic policymaker said Tuesday, citing the latest major indicators pointing to the overall improvement. "Given major economic indicators, our economy is recently showing signs of recovering," Finance Minister Hyun Oh-seok said at a meeting with other government officials. He cited a 1.8 percent growth in industrial output in August and the upward trend in home prices in Seoul and its surrounding a

Oct. 8, 2013
East Sea in Virginia gubernatorial race
An unusual issue has cropped up in the gubernatorial race of the U.S. state of Virginia -- what to call the body of water between Korea and Japan.Terry McAuliffe, a Democratic candidate, on Monday threw his weight behind a grass-roots campaign to have the name "East Sea" used in the textbooks of public schools in the state just south of Washington, D.C."The body of water known, alternately, as the East Sea or the Sea of Japan, should be properly labeled with both names,"McAuliffe told reporters

World News Oct. 8, 2013
N.K. puts military on emergency posture, slamming joint drills
North Korea has placed its troops on an emergency posture in protest against joint drills here by South Korea, the U.S. and Japan which involved a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, Pyongyang’s state media said Tuesday. The General Staff of the Korean People’s Army lambasted the deployment of the USS George Washington in the East Sea, which arrived in Busan on Sept. 30 for four-day Seoul-Washington maritime exercises and trilateral programs with Tokyo scheduled for Oct. 8-10. The latter drills we

North Korea Oct. 8, 2013
U.S. gov't shutdown enters 2nd week, no end in sight
As the federal government shutdown entered its second week with no end in sight, the prospect of a U.S. default loomed next after the top Republican in Congress ruled out any measure to boost U.S. borrowing authority without concessions from President Barack Obama.Washington will be closely watching the financial markets on Monday to see if the uncompromising talk rattles Wall Street and worldwide economies just 10 days before the threat of default would be imminent.Treasury Secretary Jack Lew w

World News Oct. 7, 2013
U.S. credits Syria's Assad over chemical arms destruction
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad can take "credit" for moving quickly to eliminate his regime's chemical arms, the United States said Monday, as disarmament experts said Damascus was being "cooperative".Speaking in Indonesia, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry welcomed the start of work to destroy Syria's chemical weapons under the terms of a UN Security Council resolution."The process has begun in record time and we are appreciative for the Russian cooperation and obviously for the Syrian compl

World News Oct. 7, 2013
Herald Corp. celebrates 60th anniversary with reception, special lectures
Participants celebrate the 60th anniversary of Herald Corp. at Blue Square in Seoul on Monday. From left at the front row are KCCI chairman Park Yong-maan, Culture Minister Yoo Jin-ryong, Prime Minister Chung Hong-won, Herald Corp. chairman Jungwook Hong, ruling Saenuri Party leader Hwang Woo-yea and Herald Corp. CEO Lee Young-man. (Kim Myung-sub/The Korea Herald)Herald Corp., publisher of The Korea Herald and The Herald Business, celebrated the 60th anniversary of its foundation with a receptio

Social Affairs Oct. 7, 2013
Americans, German win Nobel for cell transport
Americans James Rothman and Randy Schekman and German-born researcher Thomas Suedhof won the 2013 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries on how hormones, enzymes and other key substances are transported within cells.This traffic control system keeps activities inside cells from descending into chaos and has helped researchers gain a better understanding of a range of diseases including diabetes and disorders affecting the immune system, the committee said.Working in the 1970s, `80s an

World News Oct. 7, 2013
JAL makes first purchase from Airbus, not Boeing
The purchase of 31 A350 planes deals a blow to U.S. rival Boeing, which had been JAL's star supplier for decades.Airbus Chief Executive and President Fabrice Bregier and Japan Airlines President Yoshiharu Ueki signed the deal Monday in Tokyo, which includes an option for JAL to buy 25 more Airbus planes. They declined to give the actual price tag on the deal. Ueki said the decision to turn to the European manufacturer, based in Toulouse, France, for replacements for retiring Boeing 777 jets was

World Business Oct. 7, 2013
Regulator to request prosecution probe of Tong Yang chief
The financial regulator said Monday it will ask the prosecution to investigate the chairman of Tong Yang Group for allegations that he sold his company debts to investors even though he knew about their default risks stemming from the group's liquidity shortage. "We found that there is a need for an investigation on (Tong Yang's) controlling stakeholders in relation to their financial transactions between the group's affiliates," Kim Gun-sop, the deputy governor of the Financial Supervisory Serv

Industry Oct. 7, 2013
朴대통령 "北비핵화 협조요청"…시진핑 "북핵 반대"
아시아태평양경제협력체(APEC) 정상회의 참석차 인도네시아 발리를 방문중인 박근혜 대통령이 7일 시진핑(習近平) 중국 국가주석과 45분간 양자회담을 하고 대북문제 등 현안에 대한 의견을 교환 했다.박 대통령은 이날 낮 숙소인 발리의 아요디아 리조트 발리 그랜드볼룸에서 석달 여만에 열린 회담의 모두발언에서 "지금 북한 주민의 많은 수가 만성 영양실조에 걸렸다고 하는데 핵무기에 모든 것을 쏟을 수는 없다고 생각한다"며 "북한이 경제발전에 주력하도록 중국이 많이 설득하고 힘써주기를 부탁드린다"고 말했다.또 "북한이 이산가족 상봉을 약속하고 사흘전에 일방적으로 취소를 하는 바람에 평생을, 50년 이상을 기다려온 이산가족의 마음에 상처를 준 것을 참으로 안타깝게 생각한다"며 "북한이 올바른 선택을 하도록 하기위해서는 양국의 긴밀한 공조가 정말 중요하다"고 강조했다.이에 시 주석은 비공개 대화에서 북한 비핵화와 관련, "북핵 보유를 반대하며, 북한의 추가적 핵실험을 결연히 반대한다"는 입장을

한국어판 Oct. 7, 2013
해리 왕자와 결혼설, 6살 연하 애인은 누구?
영국의 해리 왕자 (29)가 내년에 여자친구 크레시다 보나스 (24)와 결혼할 것으로 보인다고 현지 언론이 6일 (현지시간) 보도했다.텔레그래프 지가 두 사람의 친구들을 인용해 보도한 바에 따르면 해리 왕자의 오랜 설득 끝에 보나스가 최근 들어서 결혼에 대해 받아들이게 되었다고 한다. 익명을 요구한 한 친구는 “해리는 결혼과 자녀들에 대한 이야기를 멈추지 않는데, 그녀 (보나스)는 이에 대해 익숙해졌다”고 전하면서 두 사람이 결혼식을 내년에 올릴 가능성이 높다고 말했다. 보도에 따르면 보나스는 이전까지 스스로 “너무 어리다고 여겨 결혼에 대해 두려워했다”고 한다.두 사람은 작년 5월, 해리 왕자의 사촌 유지니 공주의 소개로 만났으며, 이 때 해리 왕자는 그녀에게 첫눈에 반했다고 한다.두 사람은 지난 11월 해리 왕자가 아프가니스탄으로 파견되었을 때에도 주기적으로 전화통화를 해왔으며, 그가 귀국한 이후 본격적으로 열애를 시작했다고 알려졌다.보나스는 리즈 대학에서 무용을 전공했으며 올해

한국어판 Oct. 7, 2013
태풍 다나스 예상경로 “예상보다 강하게 발달중”
15년 만의 ‘10월 태풍’ 다나스(DANAS) 예상경로에 누리꾼들의 관심이 쏠리고 있다.태풍 다나스는 속도로 북상해 8일 밤 우리나라 남해안과 동해안 부근에 가장 가까이 접근할 것으로 예상된다. 7일 기상청 국가태풍센터에 따르면 다나스는 현재 일본 오키나와 동남동쪽 약 490㎞ 부근 해상에서 시속 35㎞의 빠른 속도로 서북서진하고 있다.다나스는 고온의 오키나와 해역을 통과하면서 에너지를 끌어모아 당초 예상보다 매우 강하게 발달하고 있다. 다나스는 이날 중심기압 945헥토파스칼(h㎩), 최대풍속 초속 45ｍ, 강풍반경 350㎞의 중형급 매우 강한 태풍으로 성장했다. 김지영 기상청 국가태풍센터 연구관은 “다나스가 앞으로 얼마나 더 강하게 발달하느냐에 따라 우리나라에 미치는 영향이 달라질 것”이라며 “오키나와 해역을 지나면서 북동쪽으로 방향을 틀 때의 강도 변화에 주목할 것”이라고 말했다. 다나스는 이날 오후 일본 오키나와 동쪽 약 110㎞ 부근 해상을 지나 8일 오전 서귀포 남쪽 약

한국어판 Oct. 7, 2013
Park, Xi united against N.K. nuclear programs
BALI, Indonesia ― President Park Geun-hye requested Monday that Chinese President Xi Jinping persuade North Korea to renounce its nuclear program and focus on its economy amid signs of the reclusive state reactivating its nuclear facilities.During their talks on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit here, Xi reiterated that Beijing opposes Pyongyang’s possession of nuclear arms and additional atomic tests, a senior Seoul official said, declining to be named.Xi also said C

Politics Oct. 7, 2013
Former spymaster quizzed over ex-president's slush fund
Ex-president Chun Doo-hwan's closest aide and former intelligence chief has been probed over the wealth the former leader illegally accumulated during his rule in the 1980s, prosecution sources close to the investigation said Monday.Chang Se-dong was questioned last Tuesday over suspicions that he actively helped his former boss create a slush fund and received some of the money as a reward while serving as the head of the Agency for the National Security Planning, which later became the Nationa

Social Affairs Oct. 7, 2013

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