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TUPELO, Mississippi (AP) -- Law enforcement officials searched the home of a second man in connection to ricin-laced letters sent to President Barack Obama and a U.S. senator after charges were dropp...
Updated : 2013.04.24 15:49
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Polls opened Wednesday for the first by-elections to be held under the new government of President Park Geun-hye, in what is seen as a crucial test of public support for the administration. Voting b...
Updated : 2013.04.24 09:59
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President Park Geun-hye will deliver a speech at a joint session of the U.S. Congress during a visit to Washington next month for a summit with President Barack Obama, her office announced Tuesday. ...
Updated : 2013.04.23 22:29
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Voters in 12 districts will go to the polls Wednesday in parliamentary and local by-elections which will be the first electoral test for President Park Geun-hye and a harbinger of a major realignment...
Updated : 2013.04.23 20:26
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The main opposition Democratic United Party on Tuesday demanded an apology from President Park Geun-hye over a scandal surrounding the national spy agency’s alleged attempt to influence last year’s p...
Updated : 2013.04.23 20:18
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Major university hospitals will be scrutinized for allegedly receiving illegal kickbacks worth up to tens of millions of U.S. dollars each from pharmaceutical companies, prosecutors said Tuesday. Th...
Updated : 2013.04.23 20:18
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President Park Geun-hye plans to meet with Google founder Larry Page later this week, government officials said Tuesday, the second such meeting with a global technology leader this week after one wi...
Updated : 2013.04.23 20:16
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The Defense Ministry on Tuesday received a parcel containing flour and a letter denouncing Minister Kim Kwan-jin for his tough remarks against Pyongyang, officials said. Carrying what was initially ...
Updated : 2013.04.23 20:16
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WASHINGTON ― The U.S. would consider any new request from North Korea to resume food aid stalled since 2009, provided Pyongyang allowed US staff inside the isolated country to monitor distribution. ...
Updated : 2013.04.23 20:16
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A parcel containing a threatening letter and suspicious powder was delivered to South Korean Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin on Tuesday, ministry officials said, days after hundreds of leaflets threate...
Updated : 2013.04.23 11:43
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Police have launched an investigation into claims that high-ranking police officers tried to affect the outcome of a police probe into allegations that government spy agents intervened in December's ...
Updated : 2013.04.23 09:41
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The main opposition Democratic United Party (DUP) alleged Monday that then President Lee Myung-bak ordered the country's national spy agency to post illegal political comments on the Internet ahead o...
Updated : 2013.04.22 20:54
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Businesses and politicians are clashing over plans to implement a substitute holiday system, under which employers would be required to give employees a day off during the week when a public holiday ...
Updated : 2013.04.22 20:10
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President Park Geun-hye and visiting Microsoft founder Bill Gates met Monday and shared views on Korea’s drive for a creative economy and ways to cooperate in developing a next-generation nuclear re...
Updated : 2013.04.22 20:08
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The prospects of economic democratization measures being processed at the National Assembly are becoming increasingly unclear due to growing opposition from businesses and rising calls for caution fr...
Updated : 2013.04.22 20:07
