All posts tagged "Koreatimes"

  • FILE - This picture taken on Thursday, April. 24, 2014 and provided by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), U.N relief workers with blue helmets and vests stand next of residents of the besieged Palestinian camp of Yarmouk, right, who stand in line to receive aid food distributed by UNRWA, on the southern edge of the Syrian capital Damascus, Syria. On wednesday, April. 1, 2015 Islamic State militants infiltrated the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk in the Syrian capital marking the deepest foray yet by the extremist group into Damascus, seat of President Bashar Assad’s power, Syrian opposition activists and Palestinian officials said. (AP Photo/UNRWA, File )
    US to Russia: ‘Put up or shut up’ on Syrian ceasefire

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration, frustrated by Syria’s ongoing violence, told Russia on Tuesday to “put up or shut up” about implementing a ceasefire in the Arab country, even as the U.S. backpedaled from an agreement...

    • Posted February 17, 2016
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  • resident Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2016. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool)
    Cracks emerge in GOP refusal to consider Supreme Court pick

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Concerted Republican opposition to considering President Barack Obama’s pick for the Supreme Court showed early signs of splintering on Wednesday as a handful of influential senators opened the door to a possible confirmation hearing....

    • Posted February 17, 2016
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  • Florida Lottery Secretary Tom Delacenserie, left, presents Maureen Smith and David Kaltschmidt with their one-third share of the Jan. 13, world record Powerball jackpot Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2016, in Tallahassee, Fla. John and Lisa Robertson of Munford, Tenn., cashed in their ticket last month, also taking the lump sum. The winners in California have not publicly come forward yet. (AP Photo/Steve Cannon)
    Florida couple claims share of $1.6B Powerball jackpot

    TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — After cashing in a winning Powerball ticket for $327.8 million, a Florida couple has modest goals for their first purchases: a new car and a massage. David Kaltschmidt and Maureen Smith of Melbourne...

    • Posted February 17, 2016
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  • Park Yu-ha
    Author’s wages to be garnished to compensate ‘comfort women’

    By Lee Kyung-min Professor Park Yu-ha’s wages will be partly seized starting this month after a district court accepted a request from former sex slaves for compensation for defamation. On Tuesday, the Seoul Western District Court ordered...

    • Posted February 17, 2016
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  • (Yonhap)
    Prosecutors raid South Korea’s swimming federation

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s swimming federation says prosecutors have searched its Seoul headquarters and confiscated computer hard disk drives and paper documents. Federation officials gave no further details, and the Seoul prosecution office couldn’t...

    • Posted February 17, 2016
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  • Lee Jin (Korea Times file)
    Former K-pop band Fin.K.L member Lee Jin to wed

    Lee Jin, 35, a former member of the first generation of K-pop band Fin.K.L, will tie the knot this week, King Kong Entertainment said Wednesday. Lee has been with her boyfriend, who works at a financial company...

    • Posted February 17, 2016
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  • FILE - In this undated file photo released online in the summer of 2014 on a militant social media account, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, militants of the Islamic State group hold up their weapons and wave its flags on their vehicles in a convoy on a road leading to Iraq, in Raqqa, Syria. The extremist group that once bragged about minting its own currency is now accepting only U.S. dollars in Raqqa, slashing salaries across the board and imposing “exit fees” for those trying to leave its domain. (Militant photo via AP, File)
    IS faces budget crunch, cutting perks and trimming salaries

    BEIRUT (AP) — Faced with a cash shortage in its so-called caliphate, the Islamic State group has slashed salaries across the region, asked Raqqa residents to pay utility bills in black market American dollars, and is now...

    • Posted February 17, 2016
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