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China plans manned space launch this month

Jun 10, 2012

BEIJING (AP) ― China will launch three astronauts this month to dock with an orbiting experimental module, and the crew might include its first female space traveler, a government news agency said Saturday.A rocket carrying the Shenzhou 9 spacecraft was moved to a launch pad in China’s desert northwest on Saturday for the mid-June flight, the Xinhua News Agency said, citing an space program spokesman.The three-member crew will dock with and live in the Tiangong 1 orbital module launched last yea
Toddler survives 39-minute heart stoppage

Jun 10, 2012

A 2-year-old British boy who had a heart attack and was kept alive by CPR has recovered after his heart stopped for 39 minutes, his mother said. Trudy Hilary said she found her toddler Zach collapsed on the floor Jan. 26 and performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on him for 10 minutes until the paramedics arrived .They continued CPR until they reached the hospital where the boy was given adrenalin
Robbery suspect says he was sleepwalking

Jun 10, 2012

A U.S. man accused of robbing a 81-year-old woman was in fact merely sleepwalking, his lawyer claimed. Nicholas D’Amato, representing 27-year-old Winston A. Riley, said his client was suffering from a medical condition when he pulled out a knife on an elderly woman in March and demanded her purse, according to local news reports. Riley says he was “awakened” after the woman fled from the elevator.The police dismissed the claims, saying Riley already confessed to the crimes after he was arrested,
Renowned professor arrested for prostitution

Jun 9, 2012

A University of Georgia professor famous for his life-long study of German literature and history has been charged with prostitution in a suburb of Atlanta, officials said.Max Reinhart, 65, was arrested Thursday afternoon after investigators answered an online ad listed by an individual on Backpage.com, according to local media reports. The website has an "adult" section that includes "escorts" an
US arrests 190 in international child porn crackdown

Jun 9, 2012

Police have arrested 190 people and rescued 18 children in a major US crackdown on child pornography, including some detained in Europe and elsewhere, judicial authorities said Friday.Most of the arrests in Operation Orion through the month of May took place in the United States, but suspects were also picked up in Argentina, Britain, the Philippines and Spain."Many of the child exploitation cases
Britain to outlaw 'abhorrent' forced marriage

Jun 9, 2012

Britain's government announced plans Friday to make forced marriage a criminal offence, with parents who coerce their children into marrying to face "very tough punishments".Prime Minister David Cameron said forced marriage had been tolerated as a cultural practice in Britain's Asian community for too long and was "little short of slavery"."For too long in this country we have thought 'well, it's
NATO apologizes for deaths in Afghan airstrike

Jun 8, 2012

PATROL BASE PUL-I-ALAM, Afghanistan (AP) -- The commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan has apologized for civilian deaths in a coalition airstrike earlier this week.Marine Gen. John Allen flew to Logar province on Friday to personally deliver his regrets to villagers and provincial officials for the deaths of women, children and village elders in Wednesday's pre-dawn raid to capture a Tali
Google wins partial repeal of Swiss privacy ruling

Jun 8, 2012

GENEVA (AP) -- Switzerland's supreme court has ruled that Google doesn't need to be perfect when it comes to privacy.The Internet giant has won a partial repeal of a lower court decision that required the company to guarantee absolute anonymity for people pictured in its popular Street View service.``It must be accepted that up to a maximum of 1 percent of the images uploaded are insufficiently an
Indian believers swallow live fish to cure asthma

Jun 8, 2012

HYDERABAD, India (AP) -- Tens of thousands of asthma-sufferers have mobbed a southern Indian stadium to swallow live sardines smeared with a yellow herbal paste they believe will cure their breathing problems.Despite doctors' criticism, the Goud family has drawn throngs of people for years with its secret fish and herbal formula it says it received from a Hindu saint about 170 years ago.Hyderabad
Pentagon halts free guns for police

Jun 8, 2012

The U.S. Defense Department has stopped issuing weapons to thousands of law enforcement agencies until it is satisfied that state officials can account for all the surplus guns, aircraft, Humvees and armored personnel carriers it has given police under a $2.6 billion program, The Associated Press has learned.The program provides police departments and other law enforcement agencies with military e
US envoy: Myanmar reforms good example for NKorea

Jun 8, 2012

TOKYO (AP) -- The U.S. envoy on North Korean human rights issues says that political and economic reforms unfolding in Myanmar are a great example for North Korea to follow.Robert King told reporters in Tokyo on Friday that if North Korea took similar steps as Myanmar, the international community would probably respond favorably, as it has with Myanmar.In the wake of President Thein Sein's reforms
Patience with Pakistan reaching limits: Panetta

Jun 8, 2012

KABUL (AP) ― The United States stepped up pressure on Pakistan Thursday as Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said “we are reaching the limits of our patience” with a nominal ally that continues to provide a safe haven to al-Qaida-linked militants. It was the latest sign that the U.S. is now getting tougher with Pakistan after years of muting criticism and looking the other way on the premise that an uneasy friendship was better than making the nuclear-armed country an outright enemy. As U.S. forces
Romney fundraising beats Obama

Jun 8, 2012

WASHINGTON (AP) ― Mitt Romney and the Republican Party surged ahead of President Barack Obama in fundraising for the first time Thursday, a key development at a time when many liberals among the Democrats have become frustrated with the president. Romney and his party raised more than $76 million in May, the campaign said, while Obama’s campaign reported it and the Democratic Party raised $60 million for the month. That’s a significant increase for Romney: He and the Republicans brought in $40 m
U.N. monitors fired on at Syrian killing site

Jun 8, 2012

International envoy Annan warns against allowing massacres in SyriaBEIRUT (AP) ― U.N. observers came under fire Thursday as they tried to reach the site of the latest reported mass killing in Syria ― about 80 people, including women and children who were shot or stabbed. The deaths added urgency to diplomatic efforts to end the escalating bloodshed. As reports emerged of what would be the fourth such mass slaying of civilians in Syria in the last two weeks, the United States condemned President
Doctor caught harassing patient

Jun 8, 2012

An Italian doctor was found sexually abusing a female patient in his private clinic in the Quadraro area of Rome, the Daily Mail reported.When confronted by an undercover television crew, the doctor lashed out violently, trying to push the camera away.The incident was recorded by Striscia la Notizia, which is believed to have planted an undercover patient.It is unclear what has happened to the doctor as a result of the undercover investigation.From news reports<관련 한글 기사>의사, 환자 성추행 '잠복취재'로 현장적발!이