By Joyce Lee and Hyunsu Yim SEOUL (Reuters) -A South Korean court on Sunday extended President Yoon Suk Yeol’s detention for up to 20 days, leading to violent protests by hundreds of angry supporters who stormed the court building, smashed windows and broke inside. Yoon on Wednesday became the first sitting South Korean president to …
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By Joyce Lee and Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea’s impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol attended a court hearing on Saturday to fight a request by investigators to extend his detention on accusations of insurrection. Yoon on Wednesday became the country’s first sitting president to be arrested, in a criminal probe related to his short-lived …
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By Danial Azhar LANGKAWI, Malaysia (Reuters) – The regional bloc ASEAN and China should make headway on a protracted code of conduct for the South China Sea by tackling thorny “milestone issues”, including its scope and if it can be legally binding, the Philippines’ top diplomat said on Saturday. The South China Sea remains a …
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea has decided to extend to April 18 the shutdown of Muan international airport where a Jeju Air passenger jet crashed last month, the transport ministry said on Saturday. The airport is the site of the Dec. 29 crash of the Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 jet that killed 179 passengers on …
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TAOYUAN, Taiwan (Reuters) – The head of Taiwan’s delegation to next week’s inauguration of Donald Trump as U.S. president said on Saturday he was going there to extend the island’s “highest blessings” to the United States. Taiwan, which China views as its own territory, enjoyed strong support from the first Trump administration, including regularising arms sales …
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By Doina Chiacu, Michael Martina and Yukun Zhang WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed issues including TikTok, trade and Taiwan in a phone call on Friday, just days before Trump takes office again promising tariffs that could ratchet up tensions between the world’s two biggest economies. Both leaders were …
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By Trevor Hunnicutt and David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. secretary of state and the foreign ministers of Australia, India and Japan are expected to meet in Washington on Tuesday, the day after President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, people familiar with the matter said. Experts said the meeting, the first major diplomatic event of the …
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(Reuters) – Russia signed a strategic partnership treaty with Iran on Friday that follows similar pacts with China and North Korea. All three countries are adversaries of the United States, and Russia has used its ties with them to help blunt the impact of Western sanctions and boost its war effort in Ukraine. Here are …
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -A Pakistani court sentenced former Prime Minister Imran Khan to 14 years imprisonment on Friday in a land corruption case, a setback to nascent talks between his party and the government aimed at cooling political instability in the south Asian nation. The verdict in the case was delivered by an anti-graft court in …
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By Nailia Bagirova and Lucy Papachristou BAKU (Reuters) – A billionaire former banker and 15 other ex-officials in the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region which Azerbaijan retook in 2023 went on trial on Friday in Baku in closed-door proceedings. The most prominent of the defendants, Ruben Vardanyan, who earned his fortune in Russia before serving as the …
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