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MSNBC
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Shin Hae-suk is convinced looming beef imports from the United States pose a potential danger to her family.
The 54-year-old housewife believes the country will send South Koreans meat at higher risk of mad cow disease. "What if my child eats dangerous..
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CNN
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A "national electrical emergency" has been declared in South Africa where power cuts are affecting millions of people and casting doubt over plans to host the football World Cup in 2010. Authorities on Friday outlined steps to combat the problem that is s..
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BBC News
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South Korea's incoming president wants to scrap a ministry handling relations with North Korea, his aides say.
Lee Myung-bak, who takes office on 25 February, will merge the Unification Ministry with the Foreign Ministry.
Four other ministries are b..
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BBC News
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South Korea's ruling party candidate, Chung Dong-young has conceded victory in the country's presidential election.
Exit polls show that Lee Myung-bak, the candidate for the conservative GNP party, has won more than 50% of the vote, beating UNDP candid..
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MSNBC
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North and South Korea began regular freight train service across their heavily armed border Tuesday for the first time in more than a half century, in another symbolic step in their reconciliation.
The 12-car train carried construction materials to a N..
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CNN
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Thousands of tons of oil spilled into the Yellow Sea off the western coast of South Korea Friday after an oil tanker collided with a barge carrying a crane, the Maritime Ministry of Korea reported. About 10,000 tons of oil gushed out of the Hebei Spirit a..
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SF Gate
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The last group of survivors from the Antarctic cruise ship that struck an iceberg and slipped into the icy sea were flown back to the South American mainland Sunday.
A Chilean military transport plane ferried the final 77 of the 154 passengers and crew..
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africa.reuters.com
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Some 3,200 miners were trapped deep underground in a South African gold mine on Wednesday and a union spokesman said they could be suffocating.
The miners at the Elandsrand mine were caught about 2.2 km down after a power cable to a lift broke at aroun..
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Reuters
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JUBA, Sudan (Reuters) - International wildlife experts have located hundreds of wild elephants on a treeless island in the swamps of south Sudan, where they apparently avoided unchecked hunting during more than 20 years of war.
"We flew out of a cloud,..
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BBC News
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A man has been charged with indecent assault following the rescue of a South African boy who had allegedly been held captive in a dark room for 13 years.
The boy, known as Bongani, is said to be traumatised and recoils from bright lights. He was allege..
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SF Gate
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A woman was convicted Monday of hiring a hit squad to murder her lover's baby daughter, ending a trial that had dominated headlines for months with details of South Africa's first known contract killing of an infant.
Dina Rodrigues was found guilty of..
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Guardian Unlimited
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Threat of global pandemic ... A patient suffering from TB eats lunch at a hospital in Soweto on the outskirts of Johannesburg. Regular TB is already the largest killer of people with Aids in South Africa...
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SF Gate
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The top U.S. and South Korean trade envoys broke off talks without resolving a crisis over the resumption of American beef shipments that has shaken South Korea's pro-U.S. government.
South Korean Trade Minister Kim Jong-hoon, who flew into Washington..
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BBC News
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A national census, which was a vital step in the ending of years of civil war in Sudan, has begun.
It will help determine the way power and wealth is shared between Sudan's north and the oil-rich south ahead of next year's national polls.
The census w..
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SF Gate
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Dozens of Japanese lawmakers paid respects Tuesday at a war shrine seen by Asian neighbors as an antagonistic symbol of Tokyo's militaristic past, one day after leaders of Japan and South Korea urged an end to disputes over their history.
Eight top gov..
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BBC News
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South Africa's governing party leader Jacob Zuma has criticised the delay in publishing the results of presidential elections held in Zimbabwe 11 days ago.
Mr Zuma's comments are in stark contrast to those of South Africa's president who said the situa..
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BBC News
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Australian police say they have broken up an international sex-trafficking ring after rescuing 10 South Korean women from Sydney brothels.
Five people have been arrested and charged with offences including people trafficking and debt bondage.
Police..
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BBC News
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South Africa's biggest gold and platinum mining companies have suspended production because of a spate of recent power cuts.
They took the drastic measure after state power company Eskom said it could not guarantee supplies, raising fears of miners bei..
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BBC News
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At least 27 people have died and about a dozen are reported missing after a fire at a warehouse in South Korea.
Hundreds of firefighters have been drafted in to battle the blaze in Icheon, 80km (50 miles) south of the capital, Seoul.
Thick, toxic sm..
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BBC News
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The president-elect of South Korea, Lee Myung-bak, says he will press North Korea to abandon nuclear weapons.
Such a move was a prerequisite for full economic co-operation between North and South, he said, adding that Pyongyang must improve its human r..
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