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Seoul, Jan 7 (EFE/EPA).- The benchmark South Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) on Thursday rose 63.47 points, or 2.14 percent, to close at 3,031.68 points. It is the first time South Korean stocks rallied to close above the 3,000-point mark. (Camera: JEON HEON-KYUN).SHOT LIST: SOUTH KOREAN DEALERS WORK IN FRONT OF MONITORS AT THE HANA BANK IN SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA.
World leaders met on Saturday to discuss preparation efforts to contain and alleviate the coronavirus pandemic in the next few months. Leaders from Germany, France, South Korea, and Argentina were scheduled to participate in the side event to the annual G20 gathering. According to Business Insider, the US has more than 11.9 million cases and 255,000 deaths from the highly contagious novel coronavirus. And despite making up the largest share of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths in the world, noticeably absent was President Donald Trump. He went golfing, instead.
Video provided courtesy of Munich Hellabrunn Zoo shows the moment that the zoo's new baby polar bear showed herself to public for the first time in the outdoor tundra enclosure on Friday. Closely accompanied by her mother Giovanna, the 14 week old cub faced zoo visitors for the first and appeared happy and ready for the new adventure. Now that the fluffy little cub is old enough to brave the outdoor enclosure, zoo staff decided the moment was right to bring the little white bear out in front of visitors. She was closely accompanied by her mother as she explored and pottered around, playing in the woodchip and clambering over the rocks and grass of her pen. Zoo staff have not yet given a name to their new cub, but bear will soon receive a name beginning with the letter 'Q'. All animals born at the Munich Hellabrunn Zoo in 2016 receive a name beginning with the same letter. The zoo has put together a list of seven of their favorite names and have asked visitors to vote for their favorite. The zoo hopes the baby bear will encourage onlookers to take a greater interest in endangered species. Polar bears live in fragile habitats, which are being threatened by global warming and melting polar ice caps.
South Korea condemns the North's call for more nuclear tests. Julie Noce reports.
Smithsonian's National Zoo unveils their baby giant panda Bei Bei to an audience of panda lovers. Jillian Kitchener reports.
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