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ROK prime minister steps aside
By CHENG GUANGJIN
BEIJING — Chung Un-chan, the ROK's prime minister, filed his resignation on Thursday, holding himself responsible for the government's failure last month to get parliamentary approval for a bill to scrap a project to develop a new administrative city, the ROK's Yonhap News Agency reported.
Rains delay salvage effort
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ISLAMABAD — Heavy monsoon rains in Islamabad on Thursday hampered recovery efforts at the site of a Pakistani plane crash that killed all 152 people on board a day earlier, a senior police officer said.
Blunt Brit PM causes a stir
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NEW DELHI — British Prime Minister David Cameron has revealed a plain-speaking streak during a tour of Turkey and India that raises questions over whether it is down to youthful inexperience or a bold new approach to diplomacy.
Flashfloods kill about 150 in Pakistan
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MINGORA, Pakistan — About 150 people have been killed by flashfloods and bad weather in Pakistan in the last week, with the country's northwest and Baluchistan provinces bearing the brunt of the storms, officials said on Thursday.
Shipping company maintains oil tanker was likely attacked
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TOKYO — A Japanese shipping company maintained on Thursday that its oil tanker was likely attacked in the Strait of Hormuz a day earlier, dismissing reports it may have been hit by a freak wave.
Robots to ease workload in greying Japan
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TOKYO — Robotic wheelchairs, mechanical arms and humanoid waiters are among the cutting-edge inventions on show at a robotics fair in Japan, a country whose population is ageing rapidly.