All posts tagged "Koreatimes"

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    Americans picks N. Korea as their greatest enemy nation

    WASHINGTON (Yonhap) — Americans consider North Korea their greatest enemy country, a survey showed Tuesday, the first time in 11 years that the communist nation has topped the list. About 16 percent of the respondents in the...

    • Posted February 23, 2016
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  • Secretary of State John Kerry, right, shakes hands with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, left, at the State Department in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
    US, China make important progress in UN sanctions on N. Korea

    By Chang Jae-soon WASHINGTON (Yonhap) — The United States and China have made important progress in negotiations to adopt a U.N. Security Council resolution imposing sanctions on North Korea for its nuclear and missile tests, the countries’...

    • Posted February 23, 2016
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  • Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during a campaign stop at the Pinkerton Academy Stockbridge Theatre, Monday, Feb. 8, 2016, in Derry, N.H. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
    Spike Lee endorses Sanders: ‘He will do the right thing’

    Outspoken filmmaker Spike Lee is endorsing Bernie Sanders for president in a South Carolina radio ad. Arguing, in Sanders’ words, that the “system is rigged,” Lee praises Sanders for not taking money from corporations in the ad....

    • Posted February 23, 2016
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    Billie Jean King serves as star in ‘Fresh off the Boat’

    NEW YORK (AP) — Billie Jean King plays an intense coach in the upcoming episode of “Fresh Off the Boat.” The tennis great stars Tuesday night on ABC in the “Michael Chang Fever” episode. The parents of...

    • Posted February 23, 2016
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  • In this Jan. 18, 2016 photo, a researcher holds a container with female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes at the Biomedical Sciences Institute in the Sao Paulo's University, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The Aedes aegypti is a vector for transmitting the Zika virus. The Brazilian government announced it will direct funds to a biomedical research center to help develop a vaccine against the Zika virus linked to brain damage in babies. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
    CDC: 14 more US reports of possible Zika spread through sex

    NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials are investigating more than a dozen possible Zika infections that may have been spread through sex. The 14 cases all involve men who visited areas with Zika outbreaks, and who...

    • Posted February 23, 2016
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    Seoul to provide free WiFi at all public places by 2017

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — The Seoul metropolitan government said Tuesday it will provide free WiFi networks at every public place by 2017 as part of its efforts to strengthen its digital platform. It said free WiFi would also...

    • Posted February 23, 2016
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  • A man touches the screen of a 3-D food printer during the Mobile World Congress wireless show in Barcelona, Spain, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016. Natural Machines co-founder Lynette Kucsma insisted her company hadn’t replicated Star Trek’s “food synthesizer” that made munchies appear at Captain Kirk’s mere command. But they sure have come pretty close with their 3-D food printer. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
    Food printers and eye writing: tech show’s quirkiest gadgets

    BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — While tens of thousands flock to the Mobile World Congress to check out the latest smartphones, the show also offers glimpses of some of the coolest off-beat — and downright strange — innovations....

    • Posted February 23, 2016
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