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South Korea’s opposition Democratic Party on Monday urged the country’s Constitutional Court to swiftly rule on President Yoon Suk Yeol’s impeachment, saying keeping the country waiting is “irresponsible” and deepening social division. As the eight-member court continued deliberations well into the third week, political tensions have surged
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Oil prices traded higher on Monday after the US vowed to keep attacking Yemen’s Houthis until the Iran-aligned group ends its assaults on shipping. Brent futures rose 48 cents, or 0.7 percent, to $71.06 a barrel by 9:54 a.m. Saudi time, while US West Texas
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Kurdish-led forces that control large swathes of northern Syria said nine people from the same family were killed Sunday night in a bombing it blamed on Turkey. “A Turkish occupation aircraft bombed a farming family south of Kobani in the late hours of Sunday night,” the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
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New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney arrived in Paris Monday to meet with French President Emmanuel Macron seeking support from one of Canada’s oldest allies as US President Donald Trump continues to attack Canada’s sovereignty and economy. This is Carney’s first official foreign trip since he was
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US President Donald Trump said he plans to speak to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday and discuss ending the war in Ukraine, after positive talks between US and Russian officials in Moscow. “We want to see if we can bring that war to an end,” Trump told reporters on
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The United States will keep attacking Yemen’s Houthis until they end attacks on shipping, the US defense secretary said on Sunday, as the Iran-aligned militia signaled it could escalate in response to deadly US strikes the day before. The airstrikes, which the Houthi-run health ministry said killed at least
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Syria’s defense ministry on Sunday accused Lebanon’s Hezbollah group of abducting three soldiers to Lebanon and killing them there, state media reported, as Hezbollah denied any involvement in clashes. “A group from the Hezbollah militia kidnapped three members of the Syrian army on the Syrian-Lebanese border before taking
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Russia’s Defense Ministry said its forces had taken the village of Stepove, in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, in a statement on Monday via its channel in the Telegram messaging app. Reuters was not able to independently verify the report.
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke on Saturday to discuss the next stage in talks on ending Moscow’s war against Ukraine. According to State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce, the top diplomats “agreed to continue working toward restoring communication between the United
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A Myanmar junta airstrike on a village held by anti-coup fighters killed at least 12 people according to a local administrative official, who said the bombardment targeted civilian areas. Myanmar's military seized power in a 2021 coup which has plunged the country into a fractious civil war and
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Russia and Ukraine continued aerial attacks on each other, inflicting injuries and damages, officials said early on Sunday, as the fate of a proposed ceasefire to the three-year-old war remained uncertain. Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he supported in principle Washington’s proposal for a 30-day ceasefire with
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Just over a day after blasting off, a SpaceX crew capsule arrived at the International Space Station on Sunday, delivering the replacements for NASA’s two stuck astronauts. The four newcomers — representing the US, Japan and Russia — will spend the next few days learning the station’s ins and outs
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Tornadoes killed at least 33 people across several states in the US Midwest and Southeast on Saturday night, CNN reported. Missouri reported 12 fatalities spanning five counties, the state’s highway patrol posted on X. Robbie Myers, the director of emergency management in Missouri’s Butler County, told reporters that
Middle East
The US is weighing in with Lebanon’s government on the selection of the country’s next central bank governor in a bid to curtail corruption and illicit financing for armed group Hezbollah through Lebanon’s banking system, five sources familiar with the issue said. Washington’s feedback on the
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Chinese President Xi Jinping has declined an invitation to visit Brussels for a summit to mark the 50th anniversary of EU-China diplomatic ties, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. Beijing told EU officials that Premier Li Qiang would meet the presidents of the European Council and Commission instead of Xi,
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The administration of President Donald Trump has withdrawn the nomination of Adam Boehler to serve as special presidential envoy for hostage affairs, the White House said on Saturday. Boehler, who has been working to secure the release of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, will continue hostage-related work as a