South Korea’s constitutional court has ruled against the impeachment of the country’s prime minister, Han Duck-soo, and to restore his position as acting president, marking the latest political twist in months of political turmoil. Han took over as acting president after the country’s leader, Yoon Suk Yeol, was himself impeached over his short-lived declaration of…
Exactly 10 years after the jihadist gun-attack that killed most of its editorial staff, France’s Charlie Hebdo has put out a special issue to show its cause is still kicking. Things changed for France on 7 January 2015, marking in bloodshed the end of all wilful naivety about the threat of militant Islamism. Brothers Said…
Hong Kong Post said on Wednesday it had suspended goods mail services by sea to the US and will suspend its air mail postal service for items containing goods from 27 April due to “bullying” US tariffs. When sending items to the US, people in Hong Kong “should be prepared to pay exorbitant and unreasonable…
A group of high-profile Democratic lawmakers has called on the Donald Trump administration to immediately release the Tufts University graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk, praised her “unwavering spirit” and warned that the White House is engaging in “repression”. In a New York Times essay published on Friday morning, the US senator Ed Markey and representatives Jim…
Soldiers escort a man who authorities identified as Omar Trevino Morales, alias “Z-42,” leader of the Zetas drug cartel, as he is moved from a military plane to a military vehicle at the Attorney General’s Office hangar in Mexico City, March 4, 2015. Eduardo Verdugo | AP Mexico extradited 29 drug cartel members to the…
Revered abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who was the first woman to oversee an American military action during a time of war, was posthumously awarded the rank of general on Monday. Dozens gathered on Veterans Day at the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad state park in Maryland’s Dorcester county for a formal ceremony making Tubman a one-star brigadier…
Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide will bake this weekend as temperatures across the south-east are forecast to climb into the low 40s. On Saturday, Adelaide could reach a high of 39C and Melbourne 36C, the Bureau of Meteorology senior meteorologist Miriam Bradbury said. Those low-intensity heatwave conditions would on Sunday move north-east into New South Wales,…
Nine years ago, a pair of freshly weaned British longhair kittens boarded a private plane in Virginia and flew to their new home in Europe. These kittens were no different than any other, except that they’d been created in a lab. They were clones: genetically identical to their predecessor, now sadly deceased. It had taken…
Reuters Gadot said she was now “fully healed and filled with gratitude” Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot has revealed her youngest daughter was born during emergency surgery after a “massive” blood clot was discovered in the actress’s brain during pregnancy. The 39-year-old said she received the “terrifying” diagnosis in her eighth month of pregnancy, in…
The 109th running of the Indianapolis 500 will be broadcast live on FOX, with exciting events throughout the month of May. Keep reading for key details, including qualifications dates, start times, TV channels and streaming options. When are the Indy 500 Qualifications? The Indy 500 Qualifications schedule runs from Saturday, May 17 to Sunday, May…
