After months of political turmoil over former President Yoon Suk Yeol’s imposition of martial law, his trial harkens back to the chaotic days after South Koreans ousted a junta and enshrined democracy.
As a judge reprimanded former President Yoon Suk Yeol for amplifying political tribalism, demonstrators from warring camps blared slogans outside the courtroom.
Even as trade tensions between the United States and the European Union seem to calm, officials are concerned that a showdown is brewing over the bloc’s digital rules.
A group of academics at the University of British Columbia say the school’s D.E.I. policies and practices, which include land acknowledgments, violate a law that requires universities to be “nonpolitical.”
Former President Yoon Suk Yeol was sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty on Thursday of leading an insurrection with his short-lived imposition of martial law in 2024.
Already weakened by “U-turns” on his agenda, Prime Minister Keir Starmer faced calls to step down over appointing a close friend of Jeffrey Epstein as U.S. ambassador.
An Associated Press reporter was hit and held with three other journalists and a lawyer, two detainees said, while at a center for migrants secretively deported from the United States.
The beating death of Quentin Deranque has quickly become a flashpoint between the far right and far left as France prepares for local elections next month and presidential elections next year.