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West Asia
Bank Ki-moon Attends An International Conference For Syria At Bayan Palace, Kuwait
The Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al Sabah,speaks during the International Humanitarian Pledging Conference for Syria in Bayan Palace, Kuwait City on Wed. Jan 30, 2013. The U.N. chief made a dramatic appeal Wednesday for a major boost in relief aid for Syria, calling for an end to the fighting…
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Society
Four White Tigers And Four White Lions Are Together At A Zoo In Hodenhagen, Germany
Four white lions and four white tigers are pictured in their compound at Serengeti-Park zoo in Hodenhagen, northern Germany, Jan. 30, 2013. The wild cats were born in October and November 2012. A white lion, right, plays with a white tiger at Serengeti-Park zoo in Hodenhagen, northern Germany, Jan. 30,…
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East Asia
Global leaders pledge better world for intellectually disabled
PYEONGCHANG – International figures, including Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, committed to fighting discrimination against people with intellectual disabilities Wednesday that she said are deprived of the rights to make choices in their lives. The participants issued a joint declaration, whose core message is to protect rights of…
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Self-made rocket due 2018
Following the success of Naro, or the Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1 (KSLV-1) Korea will speed up its efforts to join the league of global space power by bringing forward its plan to launch a rocket entirely built using local technology. At a press conference Wednesday, Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI)…
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Korean Air, Hanwha contribute to Naro launch
The successful launch of the Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1 (KSLV-1), popularly known as Naro here, would have been impossible without the support from scores of corporate giants and laboratories here. Nearly 150 companies and 45 universities and research centers spent nearly a decade developing core technologies for the rocket, precisely…
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2 Koreas locked in rocket race
South Korea’s successful delivery of a satellite into orbit, Wednesday, carried by the Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1 (KSLV-1) attracted additional attention because it came so soon after a similar attempt by North Korea. Officials from the Korea Aerospace Research Institute said the Science and Technology Satellite-2C began transmitting beacon signals…
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East Asia
The exhilarating 30 minutes
Korea takes first confident step in space exploration GOHEUNG, South Jeolla Province ㅡ At long last, Korea’s ten years of work to launch a locally assembled rocket into space paid off Wednesday. The nation took the first legitimate step in the global space race. The emotional toll on everyone ㅡ…
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East Asia
Naro launch is blazing success!
Satellite payload in orbit GOHEUNG, South Jeolla Province ― South Korea was third time lucky in its aspirations to join the Asian space race Wednesday after successfully launching a two-stage rocket from its Naro Space Center on the country’s southwestern coast. Korea is the 11th country joining an elite group…
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West Asia
Syrian Activists Find About 65 Bodies On The River Bank In Aleppo
This citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Revolution Against Assad’s Regime which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows dead bodies on a street in Aleppo, Syria Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. Syrian activists say at least 65 bodies, some of them with their hands tied…
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