Новости за 21.02.2017

(ATTN: ADDS more info in para 6) SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's opposition parties on Tuesday agreed to vote on extending the special investigation later this week if Acting President and Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn fails to make the decisi

SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Yonhap) -- A South Korean ship with 24 crew members and some 5,000 cars was released Tuesday after being seized by the Libyan military last week, Seoul's foreign ministry said. The ministry said that the ship, Morning Compass, which

SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Yonhap) -- Special prosecutors on Tuesday said they will question Lee Jae-yong, the de facto leader of Samsung Group, again this week over bribery allegations related to a corruption scandal involving President Park Geun-hye and her fri

SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Yonhap) -- South Korea is reviewing a plan to raise the issue of North Korea's recent assassination of leader Kim Jong-un's half brother at an incoming session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, the foreign ministry said Tuesda

(ATTN: EXPANDS dateline; RECASTS headline, lead; ADDS more info throughout) KUALA LUMPUR/SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Yonhap) -- The cause of death for North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's half brother has yet to be determined though there is no evidence of a heart a

AALBORG, Denmark, Feb. 21 (Yonhap) -- The Danish prosecution on Tuesday deferred a decision over whether to repatriate the daughter of South Korean President Park Geun-hye's close confidante at the center of a high-profile corruption scandal. South

By Yoo Jee-ho SAPPORO, Japan, Feb. 21 (Yonhap) -- South Korea collected four silver medals in another action-packed day at the Asian Winter Games on Tuesday, while host Japan zipped past its regional rival with a big day on the ice. South Korea al

SAPPORO, Japan, Feb. 21 (Yonhap) -- Below are the medal standings at the Sapporo Asian Winter Games as of Tuesday. Rank Country Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 Japan 8 8 7 23 2 South K

By Yoo Jee-ho SAPPORO, Japan, Feb. 21 (Yonhap) -- South Korea women's hockey coach Sarah Murray on Tuesday blamed the team's loss to Kazakhstan at the Asian Winter Games on the players' physical and mental exhaustion. Kazakhstan blanked South Kore

ULSAN, Feb. 21 (Yonhap) -- A coalition of environmental activist groups on Tuesday filed a complaint with the prosecution against three officials in the southeastern city of Ulsan over the death of a dolphin imported from Japan. The complaint by th

SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Yonhap) -- The volume of North Korea's coal exports reached nearly three times what the United Nations Security Council has allowed in its latest punitive resolution imposed on the communist country, an update on the U.N. website showed

By Shim Sun-ah SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Yonhap) -- The "Old Boy" actress Kang Hye-jung returns to the big screen for the first time in about two years since "How To Steal A Dog" (2014). In the new Korean sci-fi crime thriller "Lucid Dream," Kang plays a me

(ATTN: UPDATES with more detils in last 4 paras) SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Yonhap) -- Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se has voiced South Korea's reservations about any U.S. agreement with North Korea that would reward Pyongyang for a nuclear freeze, sources said Tu

(ATTN: ADDS details, comments) By Yoo Jee-ho SAPPORO, Japan, Feb. 21 (Yonhap) -- South Korea dropped to Kazakhstan 1-0 in women's hockey at the Asian Winter Games Tuesday, as its medal hopes were dealt a major blow. Defenseman Azhar Khamimuldinov

SEJONG, Feb. 21 (Yonhap) -- Global rating agency Moody's Investors Service maintained its rating on South Korea at a record high of Aa2, with its rating outlook also remaining stable, despite domestic political issues, the finance ministry here said Tu

(ATTN: RECASTS headline, lead; UPDATES with more info throughout) SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un might have ordered the murder of his half brother due to his "paranoia" as he could not stand any possible challenge to his ru

By Yoo Jee-ho SAPPORO, Japan, Feb. 21 (Yonhap) -- South Korea dropped to Kazakhstan 1-0 in women's hockey at the Asian Winter Games Tuesday, as its medal hopes were dealt a major blow. Defenseman Azhar Khamimuldinova scored the game's only goal ea

By Kim Han-joo SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Yonhap) -- Humans beat artificial intelligence (AI) language software in translation at a high-profile battle held in South Korea on Tuesday, though experts forecast the cutting-edge technology is improving at fast rate

The following is the second summary of major stories moved by Yonhap News Agency on Tuesday. ---------------- S. Korea warns of stern response ahead of Japan's Dokdo ceremony SEOUL -- South Korea warned of a stern response on Tuesday as J

SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's top naval officer on Tuesday called for watertight vigilance against any possible North Korean provocations following the assassination of its leader Kim Jong-un's half-brother Kim Jong-nam. Chief of Naval O

SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Yonhap) -- South Korea warned of a stern response on Tuesday as Japan is set to hold its annual ceremony promoting its territorial claim to the South Korea's easternmost islets of Dokdo. Japan's Shimane Prefecture hosts its annual

(ATTN: COMBINES stories slugged 'speed skating-silver' and 'speed skating-team silver') OBIHIRO, Japan, Feb. 21 (Yonhap) -- South Korea collected two more medals from speed skating at the Asian Winter Games on Tuesday. Lee Sang-hwa won silver in t

SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's Acting President and Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn renewed calls for enhanced protection of North Korean defectors on Tuesday in the wake of the murder last week of the communist state's leader Kim Jong-un's estr

SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Yonhap) -- The top diplomats of South Korea and Romania have agreed to boost bilateral cooperation in the steel and auto industries as well as other key economic sectors during their talks held in the Eastern European country, the forei

OBIHIRO, Japan, Feb. 21 (Yonhap) -- South Korean speed skater Lee Sang-hwa has won virtually everything there is to win for an Asian athlete, from an Olympic gold medal to world championships, except for one thing: an Asian Winter Games gold. And L