The Korea Herald

A century on, Korean-Mexicans trace roots

Jul 11, 2011

MERIDA, Mexico (Yonhap News) ― With colorful fans in their hands, a group of five young girls moved with quick, light steps, forming a circle and flapping the fans up and down. Their movements were meant to evoke ocean waves typical in the Korean fan dance, but they looked a bit awkward.“Uno, dos, tres y cuatro,” their teacher, Mana Eugenia Olsen Agular, shouted, counting their steps in Spanish to
U.N. says Somalia drought is worst humanitarian crisis

Jul 11, 2011

DADAAB, Kenya (AP) ― The head of the U.N. refugee agency said Sunday that drought-ridden Somalia is the “worst humanitarian disaster” in the world after meeting with refugees who endured unspeakable hardship to reach the world’s largest refugee camp.The Kenyan camp, Dadaab, is overflowing with tens of thousands of newly arrived refugees forced into the camp by the parched landscape in the region w
Japan’s idle nuclear reactors could restart

Jul 11, 2011
U.S. urges Yemen’s president to step aside

Jul 11, 2011

White House says assistance will flow to Yemen once power transfer is completeSANAA (AP) ― Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh must “expeditiously” sign a deal that would have him transfer power to his vice president and step down, the White House counterterrorism chief told Saleh in a meeting at a hospital where the Yemeni leader is being treated for serious injuries.It was the strongest and most
Murdoch fights to keep deal alive amid hacking scandal

Jul 11, 2011

LONDON (AFP) ― Media baron Rupert Murdoch Monday fought to keep his bid for satellite broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting alive after reports that his top executives were aware of the widespread phone-hacking which felled News of the World.Murdoch flew into London to take personal charge of the scandal that caused the demise of the 168-year-old British tabloid as calls mounted for the government
U.S. decides to suspend military aid to Pakistan

Jul 11, 2011

Washington holds back $800 million citing discontent with its partner’s support in war against terrorismWASHINGTON (AP) ― The Obama administration’s decision to suspend $800 million in aid to the Pakistan’s military signals a tougher U.S. line with a critical but sometimes unreliable partner in the fight against terrorism.President Barack Obama’s chief of staff, William Daley, said in a broadcast
US kidnap victim recounts details of ordeal

Jul 11, 2011

LOS ANGELES, July 10, 2011 (AFP) - A California woman kidnapped as a schoolgirl and repeatedly raped over 18 years in captivity described graphic details of her ordeal, in a first ever TV interview aired Sunday.Jaycee Dugard, who was 11 when she was seized and kept in a back yard compound by Phillip and Nancy Garrido in 1991, described how she gave birth to two daughters of her own -- and how that
Russia: Dozens of kids among 101 ferry missing

Jul 11, 2011

MOSCOW (AP) _ A half-century-old tourist boat with 188 people on board listed and sank quickly in one of the world's largest reservoirs amid wind and rain Sunday, authorities and survivors said, and dozens of children were believed to be among the 101 people missing. Two bodies were recovered.About 30 children gathered in a cockpit in the double-decker Bulgaria moments before it sank into the rese
63 dead, 200 hurt as trains derail in India

Jul 11, 2011

LUCKNOW, India, July 11, 2011 (AFP) - Rescue teams pulled bodies and survivors Monday from the wreckage of two Indian passenger trains that derailed in separate incidents over the weekend, leaving 63 dead and 200 injured.Nearly a dozen carriages of a packed express jumped the rails in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh on Sunday, while a second derailed as a result of a suspected bomb attack in
Obama calls more talks to break debt impasse

Jul 11, 2011

WASHINGTON (AFP) -- U.S. President Barack Obama convened a second consecutive day of crisis White House talks Monday, but a polarized Washington appeared far from a deal to stave off a catastrophic debt default.Obama met Sunday evening with congressional leaders, including Republican House Speaker John Boehner, but 75 minutes of talks failed to unblock an impasse that reaches right to the heart of
21 dead, 100 injured as train derails in India

Jul 10, 2011

LUCKNOW, India (AP) _ Rescuers searched through the wreckage of a packed express train for people trapped inside after it derailed in northern India on Sunday, killing at least 21 and injuring more than 100 others, officials said. The Kalka Mail train was on its way to Kalka, in the foothills of the Himalayas, from Howrah, a station near Kolkata in eastern India, when 12 coaches and the engine
Boat sinks on Russia's Volga, 61 missing

Jul 10, 2011

MOSCOW (AP) _ A passenger boat sank on the Volga River in Russia Sunday, killing at least one person and leaving 61 missing, officials said. Regional emergencies ministry spokesman Marat Rakhmatullin said the Bulgaria sank in the middle of the river in the Tatarstan region, about 450 miles (750 kilometers) east of Moscow.. He said 173 passengers and crew were onboard when the boat went down
NATO hits Libyan missile launchers

Jul 10, 2011

TRIPOLI (AP) ― NATO warplanes on Saturday struck a missile launching position that Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi’s forces used to target the civilians in western Libya, the alliance said in a statement.Government troops used the missile site outside the rebel-held port city of Misrata to fire indiscriminately on civilians in the area, NATO said.Since the uprising against Gadhafi’s 42-year rule brok
Georgian photographer confesses he spied for Russia

Jul 10, 2011

TBILISI (AP) ― The personal photographer to the Georgian president was shown on television Saturday confessing to supplying a colleague with secret information that was then sent to a Russian secret service.Irakli Gedenidze confessed to giving another photographer, Zurab Kurtsikidze of the European Pressphoto Agency, details of the president’s itinerary, motorcade route and offices for unspecified
Official: Congo plane crashes; more than 50 dead

Jul 10, 2011

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) _ A plane crashed in a thunderstorm as it was attempting to land in the Congo Friday, killing at least 48 people, and leaving a dozen or more buried in the wreckage. 53 passengers survived.``I confirm the crash of one of our planes,‘’ said Stavros Papaioannou, the chairman and CEO of Hewa Bora Airways told The Associated Press by telephone. ``There are already 46 bodies at the