South Korea’s military — agents of terror and violence in the 1970s and ’80s — spent decades scrupulously cleaning up its image to become what many people in the country came to see as a modern and disciplined force. But that image was shattered on Thursday when the general who led a short-lived spasm of […]
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South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol faces demands to resign following a bungled imposition of martial law. Yoon’s order on Tuesday to impose martial law on South Korea plunged the country into deep turmoil and caught allies around the world off guard. It brought thousands of protesters to the streets before lawmakers voted it down. The
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Police have raided a pizzeria in western Germany which they alleged served customers a side of cocaine when they ordered item number 40 on the menu. Authorities were tipped off about the scheme in March by food inspectors, and drug squad officers began watching the restaurant, criminal director Michael Graf von Moltke said on Monday.
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US economist Richard Wolff weighs in on BRICS, the systemic problems of the United States economy, and the future of Israel. The American empire has peaked “and we are on the way down… and we try to hold on”, says Richard Wolff, professor emeritus of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who notes that
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Leaflets dropped on a Lebanon border village urging residents to leave were unsanctioned, the Israeli military has said. The leaflets, which were released on Sunday, were the first evacuation order that residents of south Lebanon have received amid 11 months of cross-border fire between Hezbollah and Israel, sparked by the war on Gaza. However, Israel’s
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The US has dominated the global economy for decades. But globalisation is facing a backlash. Economic integration and globalisation, the free flow of trade, with the United States at the helm: that is the economic order the world has known for decades. Today, the disintegration of the rules-based old world order is evident. Countries are
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Police in riot gear massed on the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus and ordered a large group of pro-Palestinian demonstrators inside an encampment to leave the area or face arrest after violence instigated by pro-Israel counter-protesters. The barricaded encampment was full of hundreds of people and tents. Some protesters prayed as the sun set
Haiti’s Prime Minister Ariel Henry resigns as law and order collapse BBC.com Haiti’s leader resigns as gangs run rampant through country engulfed in crisis CNN Haiti’s prime minister says he’ll resign once a transitional council is created NPR Haitian PM tenders resignation after Jamaica talks Reuters Canada Haiti PM Ariel Henry says he will resign, and appeals for peaceful
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The UN’s top court ordered Israel to prevent destruction in Gaza. Israel’s war has laid waste to the Gaza Strip. Eighty-five percent of the population has been displaced. Much of the vital infrastructure is so badly damaged that experts say it will take decades to rebuild. An order by the International Court of Justice (ICJ)
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