World News – Page 87 – Prologue Journal

South Korea’s President Yoon has been detained. Here’s what to know.

Washington Post President Yoon Suk Yeol, who has already been impeached, became South Korea’s first sitting leader to be detained after weeks of openly defying authorities. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/01/15/south-korea-president-impeached-detained/

Exiled, shot, impeached, jailed: A history of South Korean presidents

Washington Post Impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol is the latest in a long line of leaders to have their political careers marred by scandal or meet an otherwise unfortunate end. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/01/15/south-korea-presidents-detention-imprisonment-history/

Live briefing: Israel-Hamas ceasefire and hostage deal at ‘closest point,’ Qatar says

Washington Post The first phase, spanning a 42-day ceasefire, would see the exchange of 33 Israeli hostages in Gaza for Palestinians held in Israeli prisons, U.S. officials said. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/01/15/israel-war-gaza-ceasefire-hostages-news-hamas/

Trump moves the needle on a Gaza ceasefire

Washington Post For months, Israel’s Prime Minister made a ceasefire deal seem impossible. Trump’s imminent return changed that. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/01/15/netanyahu-trump-gaza-ceasefire/

South Korean investigators make second attempt to detain impeached president

Fox News Authorities investigating suspended South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol arrived at his residence Wednesday in a second attempt to detain him over his ill-fated martial law declaration last month. Police dispatched some 3,200 officers to the president’s sprawling hillside estate in Seoul, according to Reuters, where he has spent weeks in hiding whilst…

In Greenland, a cold shoulder for Trump, but curiosity about U.S. ties

Washington Post Greenland residents spoke to The Washington Post about President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed acquisition. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/01/14/trump-want-greenland-response/

Israel and Hamas in ‘final stages’ of Gaza ceasefire talks, officials say

Washington Post U.S., Qatari and Egyptian mediators shuttled between the Israeli and Hamas delegations in Doha on Tuesday, where officials said a deal to halt the war is near. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/01/14/gaza-ceasefire-israel-hamas-qatar/

Phebe Marr, scholar of Iraq’s history and upheavals, dies at 93

Washington Post A bus trip to Baghdad in the late 1950s began Dr. Marr’s path to become one of the leading American experts on Iraq. https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2025/01/14/phebe-marr-iraq-dies/

Dozens of survivors and dead pulled from abandoned South African mine as hundreds remain underground

Fox News Months after South African authorities initially cut off supplies to miners working illegally in an abandoned gold mine, rescuers brought dozens of bodies and emaciated survivors to the surface Tuesday with hundreds more still believed to be underground, many of them dead and others too weak to come out on their own. At…

Princess Kate says her cancer is in remission

Washington Post The Princess of Wales, who revealed in March that she had been diagnosed with cancer after speculation surrounding her whereabouts, said on Tuesday she is in remission. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/01/14/britain-princess-kate-remission-cancer/