reuters Protestors cheered and waved multicolored light sticks as loud music blared from speakers outside Seoul’s National Assembly. “Impeach Yoon Suk Yeol! Arrest Yoon Suk Yeol!” He chanted mantras. The atmosphere was festive, but the crowd was there for a serious purpose – to get rid of the country’s president. Police estimated the crowd to…
Protesters tore down a statue of former President Hafez al-Assad, father of President Bashar al-Assad, in a suburb of Damascus. Source link
getty images Lawmakers in South Korea have failed to impeach the country’s president over his short-lived attempt to declare martial law. A bill condemning Yoon Suk Yeol fell three votes short of the 200 votes needed to pass, with several parliament members from the ruling People’s Power Party (PPP) boycotting the vote. There was widespread…
More than 150 illegal miners have been rescued from an abandoned mine in South Africa’s eastern Mpumalanga province. Police say three bodies were recovered on the first day of the rescue operation earlier this week. Most of those rescued, reportedly foreign nationals, claim they were forced underground against their will to search for gold. A…
Police say an explosion has occurred in a three-storey block of flats in The Hague. Firefighters arrived at the scene around 06:15 (05:15 GMT) to extinguish a fire that caused several houses to collapse in the Tarvekamp area of the city. Rescue workers are searching for 20 people who are believed to have been present…
Dominican Republican officials say the cocaine found in the country’s largest-ever seizure was being transported to Europe. Authorities found 9,500 kilograms of the drug hidden in a shipment of bananas at a port in the capital Santo Domingo. The cocaine was hidden in 320 bags, with an estimated street value of $250 million (£196 million)….
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has apologized in a televised address for declaring martial law earlier this week. The order sparked chaos and lawmakers quickly overturned it. A vote is to be held on Saturday to impeach Yoon and thousands of people are gathering outside the parliament demanding his removal. Source link
set india/youtube The show featured three fearless policemen solving cases “Mercy, break the door.” (Mercy, break down the door) Most Indians will instantly recognize this dialogue from the popular detective show CID, which ran from 1998 to 2018, making it one of India’s longest-running television shows. The whodunit saw three fearless policemen – ACP Pradyuman,…
WATCH: ‘I’m very sorry’, says South Korea’s president Source link
Election day has arrived in Ghana, where a debt crisis and high living costs mean the economy is uppermost in the minds of many voters. The West African nation is guaranteed a new president as Nana Akufo-Addo steps down after reaching the official limit of two terms in office. But if former President John Mahama…
