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Seoul Halloween stampede: At least 151dead in crowd surge
World | October 30, 2022 15:06 ISTA mass of mostly young people celebrating Halloween in Seoul became trapped and crushed as the crowd surged into a narrow alley, killing at least 151 people and injuring 153 others in South Korea’s worst disaster in years.
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Seoul Halloween Stampede: Heartbreaking visuals of people performing CPR on streets go viral
Trending | October 30, 2022 7:59 ISTHalloween festivities in Seoul, South Korea turned tragic when a stampede resulted in the deaths of over 150 people, mostly in their 20s, in a popular nightlife center in the city.
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Seoul Halloween stampede: At least 151 killed after crowd surge; over 150 injured
World | December 16, 2022 12:00 ISTSeoul Halloween stampede: Choi Seong-beom, chief of Seoul’s Yongsan fire department, said the death toll could rise further and that an unspecified number among the injured were in critical condition.
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Seoul's Halloween horror: At least 120 killed, 100 injured after crowd surge in South Korea
World | October 29, 2022 23:42 ISTEmergency officials received at least 81 calls from people with breathing difficulty, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency said.
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North Korea reports another disease outbreak amid COVID wave
World | June 16, 2022 13:00 ISTSuch diseases routinely occur in North Korea, which lacks good water treatment facilities and whose public healthcare infrastructure largely remains broken since the mid-1990s.
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Seoul: North Korean missile exploded in air in failed launch
World | March 16, 2022 11:15 ISTDetails of the missile explosion weren’t immediately known. But the launch, the 10th of its kind this year, shows North Korea is determined to press ahead on its push to modernize its weapons arsenal and pressure its rivals into making concessions amid dormant denuclearization talks.
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North Korea tests longest-range missile since 2017; Japan, S Korea react
World | January 30, 2022 22:31 ISTThe Japanese and South Korean militaries said the missile was launched on a high trajectory, apparently to avoid the territorial spaces of neighbors, and reached a maximum altitude of 2,000 kilometers (1,242 miles) and traveled 800 kilometers (497 miles) before landing in the sea.
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North Korea fires 2 suspected missiles in 6th launch in 2022
World | January 27, 2022 8:19 ISTSouth Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the weapons, which were likely short-range, were launched from an eastern coastal area, but it didn’t immediately say how far they flew.
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North Korea slams United States, hints at resuming nuclear, ICBM tests
World | January 20, 2022 8:33 ISTThe North’s Foreign Ministry had already warned of stronger and more explicit action after the Biden administration last week imposed fresh sanctions over the North’s continued missile testing activity.
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Samsung Galaxy A51 starts to receive security update
January 03, 2022 11:37 ISTSamsung has started to roll out a new software update for its Galaxy A51 smartphone which brings the January 2022 security patch to the device. The recent update is being rolled out in Malaysia and Russia.
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Samsung Galaxy S20 smartphone to get Android 12-based One UI 4 stable update
Technology | December 28, 2021 13:43 ISTThe smartphone maker has been testing the Android 12-based One UI 4 beta on the Galaxy S20 series for quite some time now.
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LG working on laptop with touch pads on both sides of the keyboard
Technology | December 27, 2021 11:07 ISTIt is reported that the South Korean tech giant LG is working on a new laptop with touch pads on both sides of the keyboard. A patent for an LG laptop has surfaced on the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) portal showcasing the same.
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North Korea fires two ballistic missiles into eastern waters
World | September 15, 2021 11:45 ISTSouth Korean and US intelligence authorities are analyzing more details about North Korean launches, the joint chiefs’ statement said, adding that South Korea has boosted its anti-North Korea surveillance posture.
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North Korea's Kim Jong Un vows to boost China ties amid COVID pandemic hardship
World | July 01, 2021 13:35 ISTKim made the comments in a message to Chinese President Xi Jinping congratulating him on the 100th founding anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party, according to the official Korean Central News Agency.
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US, China agree to cooperate on climate crisis with urgency
World | April 18, 2021 9:32 ISTThe agreement was reached by US special envoy for climate John Kerry and his Chinese counterpart Xie Zhenhua during two days of talks in Shanghai last week, the State Dept said in a statement.
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Coronavirus outbreak: South Korea's COVID-19 cases reach 5,328
World | March 04, 2020 12:34 ISTSouth Korea on Wednesday confirmed 142 more cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus, raising the total number of infections to 5,328. The country has raised its four-tier virus alert to the highest "red" level.
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North Korea fires unidentified projectiles into eastern sea, claims Seoul
World | March 02, 2020 10:34 ISTKim’s latest show of force is apparently aimed at boosting military morale, strengthening internal unity and showing that his country is doing fine despite outside worries of how the North would contend with an outbreak.
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1st US soldier infected with coronavirus as South Korean cases jump again
World | February 26, 2020 12:09 ISTSouth Korea’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said 134 of the 169 new cases were in Daegu, where the government has been mobilizing public health tools to contain the spread of the outbreak. Another 19 cases were in neighboring towns.
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US again flies surveillance plane over Korean Peninsula
World | December 30, 2019 14:32 ISTUS flew another surveillance aircraft over the Korean Peninsula on Monday, an aviation tracker said, the latest in a series of flights to monitor North Korea amid concerns that Pyongyang could launch long-range rockets.
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US intensifies aerial surveillance of Korean Peninsula
World | December 25, 2019 15:07 ISTThe United States on Wednesday intensified its aerial surveillance on the Korean Peninsula, deploying four surveillance airplanes amid the possibility that North Korea could conduct a new weapons test in the next few days. The Pentagon deployed RC-135W, E-8C, RQ-4 Global Hawk and RC-135S aircraft -- capable of geolocating signals and capturing aerial images and with other reconnaissance and surveillance functions -- said Aircraft Spots, a Twitter account dedicated to monitoring military air movements, reported Efe news.
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