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Local Koreans speak out about tensions between North, South Korea
WSBT-TVNervous and scared are how one man describes the feelings of people he knows in South Korea. Tensions between North and South Korea are nothing new. With threats of nuclear war, many Koreans living in our area are growing more and more concerned...Tags: North Korea, South Korea, Television Stations, Kim Jong Un, Television Industry
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Live giant squid caught on camera
TOKYO (AP) — After years of searching, scientists and broadcasters say they have captured video images of a giant squid in its natural habitat deep in the ocean for the first time. The three-meter (nine-foot) invertebrate was filmed from a...
Tags: Discovery Communications, Inc., Tokyo (Japan), Science and Technology
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World's oldest woman dies at 115
TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese official says a woman in his town near Tokyo who became world's oldest living female just last month has died at 115. Koto Okubo died Saturday at a nursing home in Kawasaki City, according to city official Mitsuhiro Kozuka....Tags: Long Term Care, Politics, Nursing, Tokyo (Japan), Government
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Ill. Amtrak train set to hit 110 mph in test run
CHICAGO (AP) — In a modest milestone for President Barack Obama's high-speed rail vision, test runs will start zooming along a small section of the Amtrak line between Chicago and St. Louis at 110 mph on Friday. The 30-mph increase from the route's...Tags: Barack Obama, Illinois Governor, Railway Transportation, Executive Branch, Amtrak
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UN urges protection for elderly as world grays
TOKYO (AP) — The fast aging of Japanese society is evident as soon as one lands at Tokyo's Narita airport and sees who is doing the cleaning. Young people tend to take such menial jobs in other countries, but here they are often held by workers...Tags: Politics, Personal Service, China, Government, Abusive Behavior
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Study: Viewers turning to YouTube as news source
NEW YORK (AP) — A new study has found that YouTube is emerging as a major platform for news, one to which viewers increasingly turn for eyewitness videos in times of major events and natural disasters. The Pew Research Center's Project for...Tags: Services and Shopping, Fox News Channel (tv network), Social Media, YouTube, News Agency
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For car buyers, it's harder to end up with a lemon
TOM KRISHER,AP Auto WritersDETROIT (AP) — Car shoppers today are less likely to end up with a lemon. In the past five years, global competition has forced automakers to improve the quality and reliability of their vehicles — everything from inexpensive mini-cars to...Tags: Sergio Marchionne, General Motors Corp., Infiniti, Services and Shopping, Chrysler
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Quake strikes northern Japan; tsunami advisories issued
There were no immediate reports of damage after northern Japan was hit by an earthquake which the Japan Meteorological Agency said had a preliminary magnitude of 6.8.
The epicenter of the quake was in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of northern Japan,...Tags: Pacific Ocean, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Earthquakes, Japan Nuclear Emergency (2011), Tsunamis
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Mich. man not found in search of mountain shelters
PORTAGE, Mich. (AP) — The family of a western Michigan man missing on Japan's Mount Fuji doubts he'll be found alive. Writing on Facebook, Matt Johnson's family says "there is no longer any hope of a miracle" because of two weeks of below-zero...Tags: Matt Johnson, Facebook, Eaton Corporation
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Niles veteran recalls Japan's surprise attack 70 years later
BUCHANAN — Certainly, Earl “Judd’’ Walls knows what transpired 70 years ago at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The problem, he says, is that few others do. “I think most of them have (forgotten),’’ he said Wednesday, in...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), American Legion, Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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After seven decades, Pearl Harbor fresh in vets' minds
The crude oil was already 30 inches deep on Battleship Row by the time 18-year-old Harold Helser arrived on the shore, looking for a way to help. Overhead, Japanese planes continued to drop bombs and strafe with their machine guns, as the Dec. 7, 1941,...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Documentary (genre), Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941), Europe, Human Interest
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Questions swirl around $6 billion nuclear lab
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — At Los Alamos National Laboratory, officials are moving forward with final design and initial construction plans for a new $6 billion nuclear lab. But questions continue to swirl about exactly what kind of nuclear and plutonium...Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Defense Equipment, Kennedy Krieger Institute
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