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McDonald's will soon banish cheeseburgers and chocolate milk from its Happy Meal menu in an effort to cut down on the calories, sodium, saturated fat and sugar that kids consume at its restaurants.

Diners can still ask specifically for cheeseburgers or chocolate milk with the kid's meal, but the fast-food company said that not listing them will reduce how often they're ordered. Since it removed soda from the Happy Meal menu four years ago, orders for it with Happy Meals have fallen 14 percent, the company said.

The Happy Meal has long been a target of health advocates and parents who link it to childhood obesity. McDonald's has made many tweaks over the years, including cutting the size of its fries and adding fruit. Most recently, it swapped out its apple juice for one that has less sugar.

It's been especially important as the company tries to shake its junk-food image, since McDonald's is known for getting more business from families with children relative to its traditional rivals, such as Burger King and Wendy's. The Happy Meal is a key part of that.

The latest changes will occur in the United States by June.

McDonald's said Thursday that it wants all its Happy Meal options to have 600 calories or fewer and have less than 650 milligrams of sodium. It also wants less than 10 percent of the meal's calories to come from saturated fat and added sugar.

The cheeseburger and chocolate milk didn't meet those new standards, the Oak Brook, Illinois-based company said. It is, however, working to cut sugar from the chocolate milk and believes it'll be back on the Happy Meal menu eventually - but doesn't know when that will happen.

There will be other tweaks: the six-piece chicken nugget Happy Meal will now come with a kids-sized fries instead of a small, lowering calories and sodium from the fries by half. And bottled water will be added as an option to the Happy Meal menu, but will cost extra. Currently, the Happy Meal menu lists milk, chocolate milk and apple juice. Soda does not cost extra.

For international restaurants, McDonald's Corp. said that at least half of the Happy Meal options available must meet its new nutritional guidelines. The company said some are adding new menu items to comply, like in Italy, where a grilled chicken sandwich was added to the Happy Meal menu.

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McDonald's slims down Happy Meal by banishing cheeseburgers

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McDonald's will soon banish cheeseburgers and chocolate milk from its Happy Meal menu in an effort to cut down on the calories, sodium, saturated fat and sugar that kids consume at its restaurants. Diners can still ask specifically for cheeseburgers or chocolate milk with the kid's meal,...

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North Korea says they are months away from hitting the untied states.

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Reuters 2/6/2018 By Stephanie Nebehay

GENEVA - North Korea is only months away from obtaining the capability to hit U.S. territory with a nuclear weapon and must be disarmed, a U.S. envoy said on Tuesday, dismissing Pyonyang's diplomatic thaw with South Korea as a "charm offensive" that fooled no one.

In a diplomatic showdown at a U.N.-sponsored Conference on Disarmament, North Korea responded by blaming Washington for escalating confrontation, saying it was deploying nuclear assets including aircraft carriers near the divided peninsula and was considering a pre-emptive strike against Pyongyang.

"North Korea has accelerated its provocative pursuit of nuclear weapons and missile capabilities, and expressed explicit threats to use nuclear weapons against the United States and its allies in the region," U.S. disarmament ambassador Robert Wood told the Geneva forum.

"North Korean officials insist that they will not give up nuclear weapons, and North Korea may now be only months away from the capability to strike the United States with nuclear-armed ballistic missiles," he said.

A new U.S. nuclear policy review outlined last week "reaffirms that North Korea's illicit nuclear program must be completely, verifiably, and irreversibly eliminated, resulting in a Korean Peninsula free of nuclear weapons," he said.

Asked later what the basis was for the assessment that North Korea would soon be able to hit the United States with a nuclear weapon, he said he had "no new information to share."

North Korea tested its first intercontinental ballistic missile, the Hwasong-14, twice last July. In November it tested the Hwasong-15, believed to be capable of reaching the continental United States. It is not yet believed to have the capability to mount a nuclear warhead on a ballistic missile.

North Korea is under tightening U.N. Security Council sanctions for its banned nuclear and ballistic missile programs. But recent weeks have seen a thaw with South Korea, after Pyongyang agreed to send athletes to compete in the Olympic Games opening on Friday in the South.
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"What I would call 'the charm offensive' frankly is fooling no one," Wood told the talks.

He also said arsenals in China and Russia were expanding, drawing rebukes from their respective delegations.

"Russia, China and North Korea are growing their stockpiles, increasing the prominence of nuclear weapons in their security strategies, and - in some cases - pursuing the development of new nuclear capabilities to threaten other peaceful nations," Wood said.

"We are not going to stick our head in the sand, we are going to respond to these growing challenges," he later told reporters.

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North Korea accused the United States of seeking to aggravate the situation on the divided peninsula by "deploying large nuclear assets" nearby, laying the ground for a possible pre-emptive strike against it.

"In view of the nature and scale of U.S. military reinforcements, they are designed to make a pre-emptive strike against the DPRK," North Korean diplomat Ju Yong Chol told the talks, referring to his country's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

"U.S. officials including the defense secretary and the CIA director repeatedly talked about DPRK nuclear and missile threat to justify their argument for a military option and a new concept of a so-called 'bloody nose,' a limited pre-emptive strike on the DPRK is under consideration within the U.S. administration," Ju said.

He said President Donald Trump's "America First" doctrine and U.S. nuclear superiority would endanger global peace and security and "trigger off a new nuclear arms race and could bring the whole world close to a horrible catastrophe."
Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay; editing by Matthew Mpoke Bigg and Peter Graff

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North Korea 'months away' from ability to hit U.S. with nuclear weapon: U.S. envoy

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Reuters 2/6/2018 By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA - North Korea is only months away from obtaining the capability to hit U.S. territory with a nuclear weapon and must be disarmed, a U.S. envoy said on Tuesday, dismissing Pyonyang's diplomatic thaw with South Korea as a "charm offensive" that fooled no one.

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a mom was killed infront of her kid, after he answered the knock on the door and they said the gunshots were so loud the boy is still having trouble hearing

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Police are looking for the man who shot and killed a 31-year-old mother after her 10-year-old son answered the door Wednesday at about 8:00 p.m., at Monroe Avenue and 23rd Street.

La Shonda Myer's sister says the gunshots that killed her sister were so loud that the 10-year-old boy is still having trouble hearing.

La Shonda and her son were home alone when they received an unexpected visitor. She says the boy answered the door. The boy told his aunt that the man asked if he could speak to somebody, so he went to get his mother.

"His mama came around the corner, and the next thing you know, he said he seen him just pull out and pow, pow. I don`t understand. I really don`t," said Mynesha Myers, La Shonda's sister.

She says Myers' son called 911 but couldn't do anything else to help his mom. He called for help and waited. His mother died at the door of her home.

"I was just at a loss. I felt empty I felt breathless, cause this young lady takes care of her kids. She is not out here in the streets doing anything to make anyone want to do something like this to her, so I just don`t understand,' said Mynesha Myers. "She really didn't do anything. She was what they call a square. You know, she is not out there partying. She goes to work, takes care of her kids."

La Shonda graduated from Northeast High School and went into the Job Corps where she studied culinary arts. After that, Myers became a pharmacy tech and worked as a CNA at Myers Nursing and Convalescent Center in Kansas City.

"She was always proud of herself. Loved to take little pictures of her little diplomas, take pictures with her kids with her little cap and gown," Mynesha said.

Anyone with information is asked to call the TIPS Hotline at 916-474-8477.

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10-year-old Kansas City boy answers knock on door, then witnesses murder of his mother

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Police are looking for the man who shot and killed a 31-year-old mother after her 10-year-old son answered the door Wednesday at about 8:00 p.m., at Monroe Avenue and 23rd Street. La Shonda Myer's sister says the gunshots that killed her sister were so loud that the 10-year-old boy is still having trouble hearing.

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This is a human sized Discoball that will act like a satillite. This ball is going to be seen wherever you are in the world. THe Ball will project a blinking light that will be seen every 90 min at night.

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The newly launched satellite, dubbed the Humanity Star, resembles a disco ball. Its mission: to serve as a focal point for humanity and reminder about our fragile place in the universe.

"No matter where you are in the world, or what is happening in your life, everyone will be able to see the Humanity Star in the night sky," said Peter Beck, founder of the private company Rocket Lab, in a statement.

"My hope is that all those looking up at it will look past it to the vast expanse of the universe and think a little differently about their lives, actions and what is important for humanity."

The satellite is made from carbon fiber and has 65 reflective panels that reflect sunlight back to Earth. The Humanity Star spins rapidly, creating a blinking flashing effect.

So when you look up into the night's sky and see something flashing light, don't panic -- it's not aliens, at least we hope not.

The Humanity Star launched on Sunday from New Zealand and orbits the Earth every 90 minutes. It will continue for the next nine months before it starts to decay and is pulled back into Earth's gravity, ultimately burning up on reentry.

While it's not yet visible in the US, you can track in real-time the location of the satellite on a website.

CNN's Lindsay Benson contributed to this report.

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A disco ball-like satellite is orbiting Earth. Here's why.

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The newly launched satellite, dubbed the Humanity Star, resembles a disco ball. Its mission: to serve as a focal point for humanity and reminder about our fragile place in the universe.

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A mother and her 14 year old son were arrested and charged with homicide and breaking and entering

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Cops on Friday cuffed a woman and her 14-year-old son for the fatal stabbing of a Bronx man during a December robbery, police said.

Shamika Mosley, 34, and her teenage son were arrested late Thursday for the murder of Calixto Palacios, a 61-year-old Fordham Heights resident found dead on the floor of his second-floor apartment on Morris Ave. near Burnside Ave. the morning of December 11, according to authorities.

The morning of the murder, a concerned neighbor said a woman in a gray sweater - whom police later identified as Mosley - answered Palacios' door and told her, "He's not here," when she asked where Palacios was, sources said.

After the suspicious encounter, the neighbor called police who found his door unlocked and Palacios dead on the floor with seven stab wounds, cops said.

Mosley, however, was gone.

Police charged Mosley and her child with murder and robbery, authorities said. Mosley, of Morris Heights, was arrested in March of 2016 for trespassing and possession of crack cocaine.
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Mom and 14-year-old son arrested in Bronx man's murder, robbery

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Cops on Friday cuffed a woman and her 14-year-old son for the fatal stabbing of a Bronx man during a December robbery, police said. Shamika Mosley, 34, and her teenage son were arrested late Thursday for the murder of Calixto Palacios, a 61-year-old Fordham Heights resident found dead on the floor of his second-floor apartment on Morris Ave.

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there was a fire in a hospital in South Korea that killed more than 30 people.

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Floodwaters threaten Paris, closing roads, tunnels, cellars

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Paris authorities have closed several tunnels, parks, and the bottom floor of the Louvre Museum as the Seine River swells and the city braces for floods.

Exceptionally heavy rains have forced evacuations from homes elsewhere on the Seine after it and other French rivers burst their banks.

The Seine reached 5.53 meters (over 18 feet) Thursday evening at the Austerlitz bridge in eastern Paris. It was expected to keep rising, reaching a peak above 6 meters (20 feet) over the weekend.

Meteorological authorities say rainfall in Paris has been twice as high as normal.

The lower level of the Louvre is closed to the public until at least Sunday, but the museum did not have plans to move artworks, as it was forced to do during exceptional flooding in 2016.

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Floodwaters threaten Paris, closing roads, tunnels, cellars

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Paris authorities have closed several tunnels, parks, and the bottom floor of the Louvre Museum as the Seine River swells and the city braces for floods. Exceptionally heavy rains have forced evacuations from homes elsewhere on the Seine after it and other French rivers burst their banks. ...

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Florida man accused of beating toddler & putting her in the oven, turns himself in.

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The hunt for a Florida man accused of beating his ex-girlfriend's 3-year-old daughter with a belt and then putting her inside a heated oven ended after he turned himself in to police on Thursday.

Terry May, 45, turned himself in at the Volusia County Sheriff's Office on Thursday evening, a day after authorities launched a widespread search for him.

According to police, the toddler suffered several injuries, including burn marks on her ear and ankles as well as belt marks on her body.

Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood told reporters May was watching the little girl at the time. When her mom saw her daughter's injuries, she called deputies, officials said. The toddler reportedly told authorities May "frequently" hit her with a belt.

"It just boggles my mind you would torment and beat and place a kid in the oven and yet you walk around on two feet," Chitwood said at a news conference Wednesday. "Animals don't treat their kids the way this guy treated this little girl."

Chitwood told FOX35 Orlando: "When you look at the pictures and read the affidavit and see what this human piece of garbage did to a 3-year-old little girl - he burned her, he beat her, beat her with a belt, then placed her in an oven."

May was being held on $50,000 bond on a child abuse charge.

Members of May's family disputed the claims against him, saying they believe another person abused the child.

"[He] loved this little girl," his mother told FOX35. "When she was a newborn baby he took care of her. He brought her clothes, Pampers, he gave her everything."
Fox News' Travis Fedschun contributed to this report. Lucia I. Suarez Sang is a Reporter for FoxNews.com. Follow her on Twitter @luciasuarezsang

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Florida man accused of beating toddler, putting her in oven, turns himself in

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The hunt for a Florida man accused of beating his ex-girlfriend's 3-year-old daughter with a belt and then putting her inside a heated oven ended after he turned himself in to police on Thursday. Terry May, 45, turned himself in at the Volusia County Sheriff's Office on Thursday evening, a day after authorities launched a widespread search for him.

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Police rifle unattended as student walks past

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Authorities plan an investigation after a video posted on Facebook on Thursday showed a Kentucky police officer's rifle leaning up against a car unattended as a teen walks past.

"It is unfortunate that this accident happened, but we as police officers are human and do make mistakes," Dayton, Ky., police Chief David Halfhill said in a statement Thursday, Cincinnati.com reported. "We hold our police officers to a higher standard and be assured that this mistake will be fully investigated."

Multiple officers can be seen in the video engaging with a suspect on the opposite side of the street, while what appears to be a rifle rests against a parked car. At one point, a teen walks by the weapon but doesn't seem to notice.

One police officer then walks a person down the street, while two other officers walk the opposite way with a person of their own - the weapon still left alone.

It's not until a voice can be heard in the video yelling, "there's an assault rifle left unattended," that an officer saunters over to reclaim the gun and take it back to his patrol car.

Both Dayton and Bellevue police were responding Thursday to a domestic violence incident with possible shots fired, the paper reported, citing a statement from the Bellevue Police Department.

The suspect, who was eventually taken into custody without incident, was willing to cooperate with an officer from the Bellevue department on the condition he didn't bring his rifle, according to the statement.

"To establish a rapport, and end this situation peacefully, the Bellevue officer handed his patrol rifle to a Dayton police officer for safekeeping," the statement read.

An internal review by the department revealed a Bellevue police officer did not leave his rifle unattended, nor was he aware it was left alone, according to the statement.

The department also released body camera footage of the Bellevue officer whose rifle is the subject of controversy to local media outlets "in an effort to show transparency."

"The footage clearly shows that no Bellevue officer left a patrol rifle unattended," the statement read.

While Dayton police Chief Halfhill acknowledged the mistake that "another agency's patrol rifle was accidently set down when the officers were going 'hands on' with the suspect," he also commended the officers responding to the initial domestic violence incident for a "great job" in the fact "that no one was injured."

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Authorities plan an investigation after a video posted on Facebook on Thursday showed a Kentucky police officer's rifle leaning up against a car unattended as a teen walks past. "It is unfortunate that this accident happened, but we as police officers are human and do make mistakes," Dayton, Ky., police Chief David Halfhill said in a statement Thursday, Cincinnati.com reported.

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Internet trolls told this girl to "make a sandwich" and she did just that. She made a ham and cheese sandwich and told them to ski 37 days and 600 km to the South Pole so that they could eat it.

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She's skied to the North Pole. She's skated across Greenland's largest icecap.

But there are always those who'd rather focus on her appearance than her achievements.

So when she skied to the South Pole earlier this month and became the youngest person to ever pull off the Polar Hat Trick, she delivered a delightfully snarky message to those internet haters:

She posted a photo of her holding a plate with a ham and cheese sandwich.

"I made you a sandwich (ham & cheese)," she wrote. "Now ski 37 days and 600km to the South Pole and you can eat it."

Her post was a reaction to the reaction she received after a TEDx talk she delivered a couple of years ago. The point of the talk was to encourage young girls to reach for their dreams.

"What if the focus shifted from how we appear, to the possibilities of what we can do?" she asked.

But when the talk was posted on YouTube, there were several responses that said "make me a sandwich," the catchphrase internet trolls use to demean women.

The idea of taking a sandwich to the pole was a joke throughout the trip, she said. But she didn't decide to follow through with it until the last minute.

"The camp we were staying at was less than a (kilometer) away from the actual pole, so we were like, 'Let's just do it,'" Jade told CNN.

So far, her response has been well-received.

"There's been a lot of comments on it, which I didn't really expect, but I guess it's just kind of funny," she says.

Hameister was accompanied on the 37-day journey by her father, her guide Eric Philips and a two-person camera team from National Geographic, which will release a documentary about the experience later this year.

Pulling her own 220-pound sled for 373 miles, she arrived at her final destination without assistance.

The trip concluded a three-part odyssey that Hameister started in April 2016.

That year, she traversed 62 miles from 88 degrees to the North Pole, breaking the record for the youngest person to cross the distance from outside the last degree. Thirteen months later, she made history as the youngest woman to ski unassisted across the Greenland icecap.

Thanks to her final expedition to the South Pole, she is also the first woman to travel a new route through the Kansas Glacier off the coast of Antarctica. Hameister finished her trek as the youngest person to complete the Polar Hat Trick.

So what's next for the young explorer?

"Year 11 and 12," she laughs.

Before she goes back to school, she's home in Melbourne enjoying the remainder of her summer.

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She's skied to the North Pole. She's skated across Greenland's largest icecap. But there are always those who'd rather focus on her appearance than her achievements.

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in France there were few fights and riots over the product nutella. sales made these people go bizarre.

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Violence broke out at Intermarché supermarkets across France on Thursday as shoppers shoved past each other to save 70 percent on Nutella.

"They are like animals," one customer said in a story by the BBC, citing French media. "A woman had her hair pulled, an elderly lady took a box on her head, another had a bloody hand."

Ferrero, which manufactures the chocolate-hazelnut spread, told the BBC that it regretted the "riots" among shoppers but that the decision to slash the price to 1.4 euros ($1.74) from 4.5 euros ($5.60) rested solely with the supermarket chain.

According to Nutella's official website, the amount of the spread produced every year weighs as much as the Empire State Building.

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Massive Nutella discount sends French shoppers scrambling

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Violence broke out at Intermarché supermarkets across France on Thursday as shoppers shoved past each other to save 70 percent on Nutella. "They are like animals," one customer said in a story by the BBC, citing French media. "A woman had her hair pulled, an elderly lady took a box on her head,...

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Fire at hospital kills 37, injures scores in South Korea.

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A fire raced through a small South Korean hospital with no sprinkler system on Friday, killing 37 people, many of them elderly, and injuring more than 140 others in the country's deadliest blaze in about a decade.

Sejong Hospital in the southeastern city of Miryang has a separate nursing ward where 94 elderly patients were being treated, but all of them were safely evacuated, fire officials said.

Most of the victims were on the first and second floors of the hospital's six-story general ward, where its emergency room and intensive-care unit were located. Officials believe the fire started in the emergency room.

Mirayng police official Kim Han-su said 34 of the dead were women and 26 were in their 80s or older. He said police may be able to announce the cause of the fire on Saturday.

Police and forensic investigators dressed in white clothes, masks and helmets examined burned equipment in the blackened emergency room.

Dark smoke and flames were pouring from the emergency room when firefighters arrived, so they used ladders to enter second-floor windows. Some carried patients on their backs to other rescuers below, who moved them on stretchers to ambulances.

Several fabric escape chutes were hanging from the building's sixth floor windows after being used to evacuate patients and hospital staff.

Dozens of fire trucks and two helicopters were sent to the hospital as thick smoke blanketed nearby streets. The blaze was extinguished in about three hours.

Three of the dead worked at the hospital - an emergency room doctor and a nurse and nurse assistant on the second floor - said Son Kyung-cheol, head of the foundation that operates the facility. The National Fire Agency said officials were trying to identify other victims.

Most of the deaths appeared to be due to suffocation, with only one victim suffering burns, a National Fire Agency official said on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak to the media.

Authorities said 143 people were injured, including seven who were in serious condition.

Son said the hospital did not have sprinklers because they were not required by law. Fire officials said the hospital wasn't big enough to require them.

Fire official Choi Man-wu said authorities were investigating whether the hospital had missed any mandatory safety inspections, although Son said it had not.

If safety issues were involved in the fire, hospital and local authorities are likely to receive harsh public criticism. In 2014, South Korea grappled with the aftermath of a ferry sinking that killed more than 300 people and exposed serious shortcomings in public safety. Officials blamed crew members' negligence, overloaded cargo, improper storage, unprofessional rescue work and corruption by the ship's owners.

President Moon Jae-in held an emergency meeting with senior advisers and ordered officials to provide necessary medical treatment to those rescued, find the exact cause of the fire and work out measures to prevent future fires, spokesman Park Su-hyun said.

South Korea is one of the fastest-aging countries in the world and has many nursing hospitals, which are preferred for elderly people who need long-term doctors' care.

In 2014, a fire set by an 81-year-old dementia patient killed 21 people at a hospital for the elderly.

In other recent fires, 29 people were killed in late December in a building in central Seoul, which was the country's deadliest blaze in the past decade before the hospital fire. Last weekend, a fire at a Seoul motel killed six people. Police arrested a man suspected of setting it in anger because he had been denied a room for being heavily drunk.

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Kim reported from Seoul, South Korea. Associated Press writer Youkyung Lee and Kim Tong-hyung in Seoul contributed to this report.

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Fire at hospital kills 37, injures scores in South Korea

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A fire raced through a small South Korean hospital with no sprinkler system on Friday, killing 37 people, many of them elderly, and injuring more than 140 others in the country's deadliest blaze in about a decade. Sejong Hospital in the southeastern city of Miryang has a separate nursing...

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A fire raced through a small South Korean hospital with no sprinkler system on Friday, killing 37 people, many of them elderly, and injuring more than 140 others in the country's deadliest blaze in about a decade.

Sejong Hospital in the southeastern city of Miryang has a separate nursing ward where 94 elderly patients were being treated, but all of them were safely evacuated, fire officials said.

Most of the victims were on the first and second floors of the hospital's six-story general ward, where its emergency room and intensive-care unit were located. Officials believe the fire started in the emergency room.

Mirayng police official Kim Han-su said 34 of the dead were women and 26 were in their 80s or older. He said police may be able to announce the cause of the fire on Saturday.

Police and forensic investigators dressed in white clothes, masks and helmets examined burned equipment in the blackened emergency room.

Dark smoke and flames were pouring from the emergency room when firefighters arrived, so they used ladders to enter second-floor windows. Some carried patients on their backs to other rescuers below, who moved them on stretchers to ambulances.

Several fabric escape chutes were hanging from the building's sixth floor windows after being used to evacuate patients and hospital staff.

Dozens of fire trucks and two helicopters were sent to the hospital as thick smoke blanketed nearby streets. The blaze was extinguished in about three hours.

Three of the dead worked at the hospital - an emergency room doctor and a nurse and nurse assistant on the second floor - said Son Kyung-cheol, head of the foundation that operates the facility. The National Fire Agency said officials were trying to identify other victims.

Most of the deaths appeared to be due to suffocation, with only one victim suffering burns, a National Fire Agency official said on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak to the media.

Authorities said 143 people were injured, including seven who were in serious condition.

Son said the hospital did not have sprinklers because they were not required by law. Fire officials said the hospital wasn't big enough to require them.

Fire official Choi Man-wu said authorities were investigating whether the hospital had missed any mandatory safety inspections, although Son said it had not.

If safety issues were involved in the fire, hospital and local authorities are likely to receive harsh public criticism. In 2014, South Korea grappled with the aftermath of a ferry sinking that killed more than 300 people and exposed serious shortcomings in public safety. Officials blamed crew members' negligence, overloaded cargo, improper storage, unprofessional rescue work and corruption by the ship's owners.

President Moon Jae-in held an emergency meeting with senior advisers and ordered officials to provide necessary medical treatment to those rescued, find the exact cause of the fire and work out measures to prevent future fires, spokesman Park Su-hyun said.

South Korea is one of the fastest-aging countries in the world and has many nursing hospitals, which are preferred for elderly people who need long-term doctors' care.

In 2014, a fire set by an 81-year-old dementia patient killed 21 people at a hospital for the elderly.

In other recent fires, 29 people were killed in late December in a building in central Seoul, which was the country's deadliest blaze in the past decade before the hospital fire. Last weekend, a fire at a Seoul motel killed six people. Police arrested a man suspected of setting it in anger because he had been denied a room for being heavily drunk.

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Kim reported from Seoul, South Korea. Associated Press writer Youkyung Lee and Kim Tong-hyung in Seoul contributed to this report.

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Fire at hospital kills 37, injures scores in South Korea

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A fire raced through a small South Korean hospital with no sprinkler system on Friday, killing 37 people, many of them elderly, and injuring more than 140 others in the country's deadliest blaze in about a decade. Sejong Hospital in the southeastern city of Miryang has a separate nursing...

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The uncle of the 13 children held captive and abused by their parents in southern California wants to adopt the kids.

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A fire at a South Korea hospital kills 37 people

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A fire agency official says 18 people have been killed and 63 injured in a hospital fire in southeastern South Korea.

An official at the National Fire Agency says the death toll is expected to rise from the fire at Sejong Hospital early Friday.

Yonhap news agency says the death toll has reached 33, but the official couldn't immediately confirm the report.

The official says the cause of the fire was under investigation. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak to media.

Yonhap says the hospital has 193 beds including 98 beds for the elderly who needs nursing care with 35 medical staff.

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Hospital fire kills 18 people, injures 63 in South Korea

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A fire agency official says 18 people have been killed and 63 injured in a hospital fire in southeastern South Korea. An official at the National Fire Agency says the death toll is expected to rise from the fire at Sejong Hospital early Friday. Yonhap news agency says the death toll has...