Yoon Suk Yeol impeachment: court hearings to begin in South Korea over president’s martial law crisis | South Korea newsthirst.

South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol’s legal team are set to attend court on Friday as the constitutional court begins hearings into his impeachment by parliament over his short-lived imposition of martial law, The court has 180 days to decide whether to reinstate Yoon or remove him. In the latter scenario, a new presidential election…

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UN voices alarm after WHO chief caught up in deadly Israeli strike on Yemen airport | Yemen newsthirst.

The United Nations chief has denounced the “escalation” in hostilities between Yemen’s Houthi rebels and Israel, calling IDF strikes on targets including at the airport in Sana’a “especially alarming” after it came under attack while the head of the World Health Organization was about to board a plane. Israel struck multiple targets linked to the…

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China’s industrial profits extend decline to a fourth straight month, dropping 7.3% in November newsthirst.

Piles of coal at Rizhao port in China’s Shandong Province on Nov. 2, 2021. VCG | Visual China Group | Getty Images China’s industrial profits extended declines to a fourth straight month, dropping 7.3% in November from a year earlier, signaling that Beijing’s stimulus measures have yet to meaningfully stem the slide in corporate earnings….

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