All posts tagged "topstories"

  • Park Geun-hye
    S. Korea president’s party seems headed for election setback

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — President Park Geun-hye’s conservative party appeared headed for a surprising setback after South Koreans voted in parliamentary elections on Wednesday, with preliminary results strongly suggesting it would not regain its majority in...

    • Posted April 13, 2016
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  • state2
    Trump amassing delegates who might not be loyal to him

    DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Already behind the curve in organizing for the Republican convention, Donald Trump has missed crucial deadlines in a number of states to lock up delegates who would stay loyal beyond the first...

    • Posted April 12, 2016
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  • leader4
    Last-minute appeals as parliamentary races draw near

    SEOUL, (Yonhap) — The ruling and opposition parties on Tuesday made last-minute appeals for support in the capital and its surrounding areas on the final day of campaigning for the parliamentary elections. Wednesday’s general elections are to...

    • Posted April 12, 2016
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    Lippert to observe S. Korea’s parliamentary election process

    SEOUL, April 11 (Yonhap) — U.S. Ambassador to Seoul Mark Lippert will observe the voting and ballot counting of South Korea’s upcoming parliamentary elections, the national election watchdog said Monday. South Koreans go to the polls Wednesday...

    • Posted April 11, 2016
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  • stand2
    Sanders’ hit on Clinton not the first, or likely the last

    DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Bernie Sanders’ claim that Hillary Clinton isn’t qualified to be president landed with a boom this week. The blow was far from the first — and won’t likely be the last —...

    • Posted April 8, 2016
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  • escape12
    13 N. Koreans from overseas restaurant defect to S. Korea: Seoul

    SEOUL, (Yonhap) — A group of 13 North Koreans working at a restaurant in a foreign country defected en masse to South Korea this week, Seoul’s unification ministry said Friday, as the U.N. Security Council has slapped...

    • Posted April 8, 2016
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  • panaman3
    Ambassador says Panamanian gov’t ready to cooperate in ‘Panama Papers’ probe

    SEOUL, (Yonhap) — Panama’s government is willing to cooperate with any country investigating or planning to inquire into suspected tax evaders mentioned in millions of documents recently leaked by Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, the Latin American...

    • Posted April 7, 2016
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