SEOUL (Reuters) -South Koreans go to the polls on June 3 in the country’s 21st presidential election, aiming to restore political stability after months of turmoil and fill a power vacuum following former leader Yoon Suk Yeol’s botched attempt to impose martial law. Here are some details about South Korea’s election system: SINGLE ROUND ELECTION …
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By Cynthia Kim JECHEON, South Korea (Reuters) – When then-President Yoon Suk Yeol’s martial law decree plunged South Korea into chaos, it plummeted sales at Park Myung-Ja’s diner in Jechon and became a turning point for many voters in the town. The 66-year-old chef and restaurant owner is one face of South Korea’s North Chungcheong …
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SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea condemned a multilateral sanctions monitoring group’s recent report on ties with Russia as political and biased, saying its military cooperation with Moscow was a “legitimate exercise of the sovereign right,” state media said on Monday. A report by the Multilateral Sanctions Monitoring Team, a group comprising 11 UN members, said North …
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By Mohammad Yunus Yawar KABUL (Reuters) -Russia has officially accepted the Taliban’s nomination of an ambassador to Moscow, the Afghan foreign ministry said in a statement on Sunday, as economic and political ties grow between the two sanctions-hit nations. Russia in April suspended its ban on the Taliban, which it had designated for more than …
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By Joe Cash and Christine Chen BEIJING/SYDNEY (Reuters) -A Chinese paraglider’s account of having been unwittingly swept into a thundercloud and dragged 8 km (5 miles) into the sky has come under question after his video of the incident, carried by Chinese state media, turned out to have been likely faked in part. The video, …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) – A rock collapse at a quarry at Cirebon in West Java province has killed 19 people, injured eight and there are six still missing, local police said on Sunday. Indonesian search and rescue agency Basarnas said authorities continued their search on Sunday for people trapped in the rubble after the collapse on …
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BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s defense ministry on Sunday condemned the United States for using the Shangri-La dialogue to “create disputes, sow discord, provoke confrontation and seek selfish interests” after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called China a threat in the Indo-Pacific. “We express our strong dissatisfaction and firm opposition to this,” defense ministry spokesperson Zhang Xiaogang said …
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) -Brunei’s ruler, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, has been discharged from a Malaysian hospital and will rest for several days in Malaysia, the Brunei Prime Minister’s Office said late on Saturday. The sultan, 78, has returned to the Grand Hyatt Hotel to rest following advice from medical experts before returning to Brunei, it said in a …
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By Idrees Ali and Jun Yuan Yong SINGAPORE (Reuters) -U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned on Saturday that the threat from China was real and potentially imminent as he pushed allies in the Indo-Pacific to spend more on their own defence needs. Hegseth, speaking for the first time at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, Asia’s …
By Rae Wee and Greg Torode SINGAPORE (Reuters) -China has a “deficit of trust and credibility” it needs to overcome in order to mend its fraught defence ties with the Philippines, though any breakthrough in the near term remains unlikely, Manila’s top defence official said on Saturday. Defence secretary Gilberto Teodoro told Reuters that the …
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