US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced that the US is immediately revoking visas issued to all South Sudanese passport holders due to the African nation refusing to accept its citizens who have been removed from the US. Rubio, in a statement on Saturday, added that the US will also block any arriving citizens…
The Michelin Guide continues its expansion across the United States. The organization — which publishes dining guides to cities, regions, and countries — has announced the launch of a Michelin Guide to the American South, which will cover Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and will include the existing Michelin Guide to Atlanta….
Currency traders watch monitors at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022. Ahn Young-joon | AP South Korea on Monday lifted the longest short-selling ban in the country’s history, after tightening measures to crackdown on illegal transactions. The short-selling ban was put into…
EPA The wildfire destroyed national treasures like Goun Temple, a Unesco World Heritage Site A 56-year-old man is being investigated in South Korea on suspicion of starting a deadly wildfire that killed 30 people. The man, who has not been named, was performing an ancestral rite by a family grave on a hill in Uiseong…
US President Donald Trump has named conservative media critic and pro-Israel commentator Leo Brent Bozell III as ambassador to South Africa, amid worsening diplomatic ties between the two countries. Mr Bozell ‘s nomination follows Washington’s expulsion of South Africa’s ambassador, Ebrahim Rasool, for remarks deemed critical of Trump. The Trump administration has condemned South Africa’s…
Tessa Wong, Hosu Lee and Jean Mackenzie BBC News News1 The commission’s chairperson Park Sun-young (left) comforted adoptee Yooree Kim (right) during an emotionally charged press conference South Korean governments committed numerous human rights violations over decades in a controversial programme that sent at least 170,000 children and babies abroad for adoption, a landmark inquiry…
Spectators have shared their shock and horror as they watched a decorated South African Air Force pilot crash to his death at a local air show, while they recalled his final moments. James O’Connell died after the plane he was flying crashed during a performance at the West Coast Air Show held in Saldanha, 112…
South Korea’s constitutional court has dismissed the impeachment of Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, reinstating him as the country’s acting president. Han took over as acting leader last December when President Yoon Suk Yeol was suspended from duties and impeached by parliament after he attempted to declare martial law. However, Han only lasted two weeks in…
Han Duck-soo, South Korea’s prime minister and acting president, speaks during a news conference after lawmakers passed a motion to impeach South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol in Seoul, South Korea, on Dec. 14, 2024. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images South Korea’s Constitutional Court on Monday struck down Prime Minister Han Duck-soo’s impeachment, local…
The Trump administration is planning to import eggs from Turkey and South Korea and is in talks with other countries in hopes of easing all-time high prices for the American consumer, officials confirmed. “We are talking in the hundreds of millions of eggs for the short term,” Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told reporters at the…
