All posts tagged "Koreatimes"

  • High School juniors Brian Keyes and Isabel Suarez, both 16, pose for a photograph in front of Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington, Thursday, March 3, 2016, after recently taking the new SAT exam. The new exam focuses less on arcane vocabulary words and more on real-world learning and analysis by students. Students no longer will be penalized for guessing. And the essay has been made optional. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
    Early takers say new SAT ‘wasn’t so bad’ and not so tricky

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Not so tricky. More straightforward. Guessing allowed. The newly redesigned SAT college entrance exam that debuts nationally Saturday is getting good reviews from some of the students who took it early this week. The...

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    Gist of new UN sanctions resolution on N. Korea

    NEW YORK (Yonhap) — The following is the gist of U.N. Security Council Resolution 2270 adopted Wednesday in response to North Korea’s nuclear and missile tests. General - Condemns the DPRK’s Jan. 6 nuclear test and Feb....

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  • Google's Chromecast and TV business head of the Asia Pacific region, Mickey Kim, introduces the Chromecast 2.0 during a press conference in Samseong-dong, southern Seoul, Wednesday. (Courtesy of Google Korea)
    Google launches new Chromecast devices in Korea

    By Yoon Sung-won Google Korea rolled out its new Chromecast devices with upgraded capabilities to play mobile visual and audio content on TVs and audio equipment. With the launch of Chromecast 2.0 and Chromecast Audio, the world’s...

    • Posted March 3, 2016
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  • FILE - In this Feb. 21, 2005, file photo, Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Perez Esquivel answers a journalist's questions at the Spanish National Court in Madrid, Spain, where he testified in a trial against an ex-Argentine navy officer Alfredo Scillingo accused of genocide committed in his country's dirty war more than two decades ago. Perez Esquivel said on Wednesday, March 2, 2016, that President Barack Obama should skip his planned March 24 visit to the country because it's the 40th anniversary of a coup that installed a military government that had U.S. backing. (AP/Mariana Eliano, File)
    Argentine Nobel Prize winner to Obama: Don’t visit March 24

    BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — In a sign of growing discontent over a visit by President Barack Obama, a former Argentine Nobel Prize winner says the U.S. leader should skip his planned March 24 visit to the...

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  • FILE - In this April 11, 2015, the Washington Monument is seen through cherry blossoms across the Tidal Basin Saturday in Washington. The National Park Service is predicting the peak bloom for Washington's cherry blossom trees between March 31 and April 3. 2016. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
    Peak bloom for DC cherry trees predicted March 31 to April 3

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Park Service is predicting the peak bloom for Washington’s cherry blossom trees between March 31 and April 3. Organizers of the National Cherry Blossom Festival and the park service announced the projected...

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  • DPRK Chosun Central TV news screen capture. (Yonhap)
    N. Korea fires six short-range projectiles into East Sea

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — North Korea fired six short-range projectiles into the East Sea on Thursday, apparently in anger over the United Nations’ adoption of its harshest-ever resolution punishing Pyongyang for its recent nuclear and long-range rocket tests,...

    • Posted March 3, 2016
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  • Donald Trump (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton)
    Rattled Republicans seek a last-ditch strategy to stop Trump

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Staring down the prospect of nominating Donald Trump for president, Republicans spiraled into a chaotic, last-ditch search Wednesday for a way to save the GOP from hitching its fortunes to an unpredictable celebrity candidate...

    • Posted March 3, 2016
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