Category: World News
With K-pop and light sticks, South Koreans demanded Yoon’s impeachment
Washington Post K-pop fans, many of them young women, were especially visible at the party-like protests that preceded the South Korean president’s impeachment. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/12/14/kpop-yoon-impeachment-protest-martial-law/
Read MoreSouth Korea lawmakers vote to impeach president over martial law declaration
Fox News South Korean lawmakers on Saturday voted to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol over his short-lived martial law declaration earlier this month. The National Assembly passed the motion in a 204-85 vote on Saturday. Saturday’s vote means that Yoon’s presidential powers and duties will be suspended after the copies of a document on the…
Read MoreLive Updates: South Korea’s President Impeached Over Martial Law Crisis
New York Times President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law on Dec. 3 and plunged South Korea into political turmoil. Some members of Mr. Yoon’s own party helped pass the motion to impeach. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12/14/world/south-korea-impeachment-president-yoon
Read MoreSouth Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol impeached after martial law ploy
Washington Post Yoon must immediately hand over power to the prime minister, who will act as caretaker while the courts review the impeachment vote. The process could take months. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/12/14/south-korea-yoon-impeachment-vote/
Read MoreLive Briefing: Jordan hosts Arab foreign ministers and Blinken to discuss Syrian transition
Washington Post The gathering comes as events in Syria are stirring concern among neighbors that the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad will lead to unrest at home. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/12/14/israel-syria-war-news-hamas-gaza-palestine/
Read MoreAssad’s fall to Islamist rebels in Syria unsettles region’s autocrats
Washington Post Leaders in countries such as Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia are worried Assad’s ouster, and the rise of an Islamist government, could stir unrest at home. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/12/14/arab-leaders-assad-fall-syria/
Read MoreWoman arrested for attempting to smuggle 22 pounds of meth wrapped as Christmas gifts in carry-on bag
Fox News Observant officers in a New Zealand airport unwrapped $2 million worth of methamphetamine wrapped as Christmas presents that a Canadian woman attempted to conceal. The woman, 29, arrived at Auckland International Airport in New Zealand on a flight from Vancouver on December 8 carrying the illicit drugs in her carry-on bag, according to…
Read MoreNew Zealand scientists suspect specimen of world’s rarest whale died from head injuries
Fox News Scientists suspect the first complete specimen ever recorded of the world’s rarest whale died from head injuries, an expert said Friday. The first dissection of a spade-toothed whale, a type of beaked whale, was completed last week after a painstaking examination at a research center near the New Zealand city of Dunedin, the…
Read MoreTurkey seeks to purge pro-US Kurdish force that helped defeat Islamic State in Syria
Fox News JERUSALEM — Just hours after meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken and discussing the fight against the Islamic State in Syria, Turkey’s foreign minister sent a shocking message to Washington by saying his country’s goal is to eliminate the main fighting force of the Syrian Kurds, which defeated ISIS in tandem with…
Read MoreAmerican freed from Syrian prison after Assad’s overthrow taken out of country by US military
Fox News An American who was released this week after being held in a Syrian prison for seven months has been flown out of the country on a U.S. military helicopter, according to a U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity. Travis Timmerman, who was among thousands of prisoners freed by rebels who overthrew…
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