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SEJONG, Nov. 5 (Yonhap) -- The state-run Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) said Thursday that it has secured a US$60 million power distribution network deal in the Dominican Republic. The utility company said the work, which is the single largest

SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks started lower Thursday due to a sharp decline in carmakers and shipbuilders. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) lost 6.87 points, or 0.33 percent, to 2,045.90 in the first 15 minute

(Editor's note: The Yonhap story slugged "financial markets-trading hours" and move on Nov. 4 is recast to change the date of the national college entrance exam from "Thursday" to "next Thursday" in title and lead.) SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Yonhap) -- South Kor

The entitlement that keeps on giving to Republicans.

Even as Shiv Kumar, the Uber cab driver who raped his passenger, has been sentenced to life in prison, another woman targeted by him, a 35-year-old from a Mainpuri village near Agra, says she still awaits closure “in a case no one cares about".

A diplomatic spat is looming after the body of the daughter of a leading Zimbabwe politician left a Cape Town forensic pathology laboratory without her heart.

Traditional healers may soon have to be registered.

South Africans have seen the light, thanks to the light-switch operator, Eskom.

Johannesburg residents need not panic. Taps will not be drying up any time soon.

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco police are looking for a transgender woman who allegedly threatened a security guard with a hatchet after stealing a handbag from a department store.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco police are looking for a transgender woman who allegedly threatened a security guard with a hatchet after stealing a handbag from a department store.

A portion of a long-lost fortress was uncovered in Jerusalem in what archaeologists are calling the “solution to one of the great archaeological riddles in the history” of the city. Researchers announced Tuesday the discovery of the fortress used by the Seleucid Greek King Antiochus IV Epiphanes in 168 B.C., according to the Times of Israel.

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The latest on an active shooter at a San Diego apartment complex (all times local):

SAN DIEGO - The latest on an active shooter at a San Diego apartment complex (all times local):

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The latest on an active shooter at a San Diego apartment complex (all times local):

The Federal Aviation Administration halted incoming flights for several hours as a precaution because planes swoop low near the apartment complex before landing. Wahl says officers exchanged gunfire with the suspect in the morning after responding to a domestic violence call at the apartment, where the victim lives. Flights to the San Diego International Airport have resumed after police took into custody a gunman who fired shots at a nearby apartment complex, posing a threat to air traffic. Police Lt. Читать дальше...

The Federal Aviation Administration halted incoming flights for several hours as a precaution because planes swoop low near the apartment complex before landing. Wahl says officers exchanged gunfire with the suspect in the morning after responding to a domestic violence call at the apartment, where the victim lives. Flights to the San Diego International Airport have resumed after police took into custody a gunman who fired shots at a nearby apartment complex, posing a threat to air traffic. Police Lt. Читать дальше...

Condemning RSS comments that JNU was home to “huge anti-national block“, the university vicechancellor on Wednesday said it is an attempt to malign the image of the institution which has contributed considerably to nation building.

Even as prolonged movements for the repeal of the controversial Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958, from the northeast have rocked the region’s states, especially Manipur, over the years, the Meghalaya high court’s directive on Monday asking the Centre to consider imposing the act in insurgency-ravaged Garo Hills has hit the state where it hurts most

Two UN special advisers expressed alarm Wednesday at reports of increasing advocacy of religious hatred against Muslims in Myanmar, especially ahead of upcoming elections.

Two UN special advisers expressed alarm Wednesday at reports of increasing advocacy of religious hatred against Muslims in Myanmar, especially ahead of upcoming elections.

After Airbnb won at the polls in San Francisco, the short-term rental company shared plans to take its activism global.

The US has said that Russia's air war in Syria had "dangerously exacerbated" the conflict.

Thomas Rhett makes his red carpet arrival with his wife Lauren Gregory by his side at the 2015 CMA Awards held at the Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday (November 4) in Nashville, Tenn. The 25-year-old singer, who got married back in 2012, is going to perform on stage during the show tonight with the band Fall [...]