Wednesday | January 15, 2025 South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has been arrested for questioning, according to the country’s anti corruption agency, in the latest chapter of a weekslong political saga that began with the embattled president’s shock martial law decree last month. Yoon was detained for interrogation Wednesday morning and departed his secured […]
Tue October 15, 2024 Kamala Harris is responding to Democratic panic about her White House prospects by turning up the heat on Donald Trump. The vice president warned Monday that the ex-president was “unstable,” “unhinged” and out for “unchecked power” as she sent a jolt of urgency though her campaign with 21 days to go.
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Wednesday | June 12, 2024 Much of France was stunned. President Ronald Reagan was horrified and promptly sent his vice president, George H.W. Bush, racing to Paris to make sure the new leader of America’s NATO ally hadn’t lost his mind. After lunch, which lasted two hours, Bush came out into the courtyard where I
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Racine, Wisconsin | Thu May 9, 2024 For the first time, President Joe Biden declared on Wednesday that in the event that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu orders a significant assault of the city of Rafah, he would stop some American weapons supplies to Israel, which he recognized have been used to kill civilians in Gaza.
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Tue, January 9, 2024 In an effort to streamline operations, Malaysian conglomerate Capital A announced on Monday that it intends to sell its low-cost airline AirAsia to its medium-haul partner AirAsia X. The non-binding agreement said that AirAsia X would merge with AirAsia Malaysia and AirAsia businesses in Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, and
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October 30, 2023 | 22:08 PM GAZA/JERUSALEM – Israeli troops and tanks attacked Gaza’s main northern city from the east and west on Monday, three days after it began ground operations in the Palestinian enclave that have increased international pressure for civilians to be protected. As it increased ground operations in the Gaza Strip, where
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Wed | September 27, 2023 Hong Kong — The inauguration of two new electricity-generating units in Zimbabwe’s Hwange power station last month was not an unfamiliar scene when it comes to major infrastructure projects in Africa. There, in a remote region of the country of southern Africa, authorities and the Chinese ambassador came to cut
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Bangkok | Thur, August 10, 2023 Thailand’s Pheu Thai party announced on Wednesday it had the support of six more parties in its attempt to form a government, still short of the required backing, as the country remained in political deadlock nearly three months after an election. After election winners Move Forward were prevented from
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Thursday | June 29, 2023 | 23:05 PM PARIS – Protesters shot fireworks at police and set cars ablaze in the working class Paris suburb of Nanterre on Wednesday, in a second night of unrest following the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old boy during a traffic stop there. In the ethnically varied suburbs of France’s
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Hong Kong | Wed May 31, 2023 Chinese leader Xi Jinping has called on his top national security officials to think about “worst case” scenarios and prepare for “stormy seas,” as the ruling Communist Party hardens efforts to counter any perceived internal and external threats. At a meeting of the party’s National Security Commission on
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