“The vote on President Yoon’s impeachment motion will take place around 7:00 pm on Saturday,” opposition lawmaker Jo Seoung-lae told reporters, Yonhap reported. Embattled President Yoon Suk Yeol will not make any public statements Thursday, his office said, after he plunged the country into political chaos with a short-lived declaration of martial law. “President Yoon […]
No agreement has been reached regarding the purchase of crude oil from Russia, Musadik Malik said during his informal media talk. He said the deregulation of the fuel prices would benefit the masses and added that the final decision about deregulating the fuel prices would be taken by PM Shehabz Sharif. Media reports suggested that […]
“The foreign ministers of the three guarantor countries — Russia, Iran, and Turkey — are in close contact with each other,” Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told reporters on Wednesday. Moscow is a key ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and is supporting his attempts to quash the rebellion with air strikes, while Ankara […]
Sukhbir Singh Badal, former deputy chief minister of Punjab state, was unharmed in the attack. The shooter, identified by police as Narain Singh, 68, was seen in TV footage from news agency ANI walking to the entrance of the temple in Amritsar city, the holiest shrine for Sikhs, and stealthily removing a gun from his […]
Five survivors were rescued from the scene of the accident, which took place in Guizhou province on Monday, according to an online statement by the national emergency management ministry. The boat was owned by the local town-level government, according to the statement, which called for “serious accountability” over the incident. The vessel “engaged in passenger-carrying […]
The UN General Assembly on Tuesday called on Israel to withdraw from the occupied Palestinian territories and pushed for the creation of a Palestinian state, convening an international conference in June to try to jumpstart a two-state solution. In a resolution passed by a 157-8 vote, with the United States and Israel among those voting […]
Facing what the new U.N. aid chief Tom Fletcher describes as “an unprecedented level of suffering”, the U.N. hopes to reach people in 32 countries next year, including those in war-torn Sudan, Syria, Gaza, and Ukraine. “The world is on fire, and this is how we put it out,” Fletcher told reporters in Geneva. “We […]
Yoon’s shock bid to impose martial law on South Korea for the first time in over four decades plunged the country into the deepest turmoil in its modern democratic history and caught its close allies around the world off guard. The United States, which stations nearly 30,000 troops in South Korea, initially voiced deep concern […]
Syrian rebels captured Aleppo last week in an attack initiated by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham. Formerly known as the Nusra Front, it was al Qaeda’s official wing in Syria until breaking ties in 2016. It is sanctioned by the UN Security Council. Deputy US Ambassador to the UN Robert Wood called for a de-escalation of the […]
Yoon’s shock bid to impose South Korea’s first martial law in over four decades plunged the country into the deepest turmoil in its modern democratic history and caught its close allies around the world off guard. The United States, which stationed nearly 30,000 troops in South Korea to protect it from the nuclear-armed North, initially […]
