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N.K., U.S. in high-level talks on denuclearization

North KoreaJul 29, 2011

After a 17-month hiatus, senior North Korean and U.S. government officials resumed talks in New York Thursday as part of efforts to revive the six-party negotiations on the communist nation's nuclear weapons program.North Korean First Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye-gwan described the first-day meeting as "constructive," while Stephen Bosworth, Washington's point man on Pyongyang, remained tight-lip
Man United outclass MLS All-Stars 4-0

SoccerJul 28, 2011

Manchester United's Ji-Sung Park, center, scores a goal against the MLS All-Stars during the first half of soccer's MLS All-Star Game on Wednesday, July 27, 2011, in Harrison, N.Y. (AP-Yonhap News) MLS All-Star's Thierry Henry, right, of the New York Red Bulls, loses the ball against Manchester United's Ji-Sung Park (13) and Phil Jones during the first half of soccer's MLS All-Star Game on Wednesd
Insurers brace for rain-triggered car claims

Jul 28, 2011

South Korean non-life insurers are bracing themselves for a spike in car insurance claims relating to damage from the record downpours that pounded the capital area, sources said Thursday.Torrential rains have battered Seoul and the surrounding regions since Tuesday, placing thousands of vehicles under water and triggering landslides and flash floods that killed at least 41 people.The Financial Su
Lee not to grant special pardon for Liberation Day

PoliticsJul 28, 2011

President Lee Myung-bak will not grant special pardons for local prisoners and convicted people on the National Liberation Day, which falls on Aug. 15, one of Lee's close aides said Thursday. South Korea's president usually grants a special pardon in commemoration of major national holidays. The Liberation Day marks the end of the 1910-45 Japanese colonial rule over the Korean Peninsula. "This yea
China says equipment flaws caused train crash

World NewsJul 28, 2011

BEIJING (AP) -- Design flaws in signal equipment and human error caused last weekend's high-speed train crash in China that killed at least 39 people, a railway official said Thursday.The preliminary finding comes in the face of public anger about the government's handling of the accident near Wenzhou in Zhejiang province. Relatives of the victims in Saturday's train crash talk to the media as the
Man charged of sexual assault of 93-year-old

World NewsJul 28, 2011

An American nursing assistant had been charged with aggravated criminal sexual assault of a 93-year-old patient suffering from dementia.Robert Phelan Jr., 56, was allegedly witnessed by another staff member while having inappropriate contact with the victim at Lexington Health Care, Illinois. Phelan had been working at the facility for less than two weeks.Aggravated criminal sexual assault is refe
Man who can guess time could carry Olympic torch

Jul 28, 2011

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
Study finds no cancer link with kids, cellphones

ScienceJul 28, 2011

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A European study concludes a few years of cellphone use did not raise children's risks of brain cancer.Repeated studies in adults have been reassuring, too, although an arm of the World Health Organization said this spring that there is a possibility cellphones pose a risk. Moms are photographed at Hall's Calabasas, California home, where they run a business designing "apps" for
S. Korea's current account hits 8-month high in June

Jul 28, 2011

South Korea's current account surplus hit an eight-month high in June on record exports, the central bank said Thursday, showing that overseas shipments are humming along despite strong currency and global economic uncertainties.The current account surplus reached US$2.99 billion in June, up from a revised $2.18 billion the previous month, according to the Bank of Korea (BOK). The current account
S. Korea sends additional 100 tons of flour to N. Korea

North KoreaJul 28, 2011

A South Korean Catholic charity group delivered 100 tons of flour to North Korea on Thursday, following the resumption of South Korea's flour aid to the impoverished North earlier this week, officials said.Four South Korean trucks carrying 100 tons of flour crossed the heavily fortified border on Thursday morning to deliver the aid to North Korea to help ease the country's chronic food shortages,
Heavy rains batter nation

Social affairsJul 27, 2011

A road in Daechi-dong, southern Seoul, is flooded. (Kim Che-kyung via tweeter)Rescuers clear fallen tree branches in Seocho-dong(Yonhap News)
N.K. commands 195,000 troops for terror attacks on S. Korea: defector

North KoreaJul 27, 2011

North Korea's military commands 195,000 troops trained to launch various types of terror attacks on South Korea, a defector said Wednesday.The number includes 110,000 troops in the special forces, 40,000 in air and naval brigades, 10,000 charged with cyber terrorism, and 5,000 in the Reconnaissance General Bureau, North Korea's top intelligence agency, said Kim Seong-min of the NK People's Liberat
N. Korea calls for peace treaty with U.S. to end Korean War

North KoreaJul 27, 2011

North Korea called Wednesday for a peace treaty with the United States to officially end the Korean War decades after the fighting ceased, describing it as a first step toward the peninsula's denuclearization.The move comes as a senior North Korean official arrived in New York for rare talks with U.S. officials on how to resume stalled six-nation negotiations on ending the North's nuclear programs
U.S. man attempts self-surgery with butter knife

PodcastJul 27, 2011

GLENDALE, California (AP) -- A man stuck a butter knife into his belly in a failed bid at self-surgery to remove a painful hernia, police said Tuesday.The wife of the 63-year-old Glendale man called paramedics on Sunday night and told the emergency operator her husband was using a knife to remove a protruding hernia, Sgt. Tom Lorenz said.“She said he had impaled himself with a knife,” Lorenz said.
Kirk confident of September passage of FTAs

Jul 27, 2011

The top U.S. trade official predicted confidently Tuesday that Congress will pass free trade agreements (FTAs) with South Korea, Colombia and Panama in September.In a speech at a Bretton Woods Committee meeting, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk said a "framework" for a deal on the controversial Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) is already in place.President Barack Obama is pushing to renew the w