TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan’s defence ministry said on Sunday that China had nearly doubled the number of its warships operating around the island in the previous 24 hours, ahead of what security sources expect will be a new round of war games. China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, has been angered …
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By Ju-min Park, Joyce Lee and Cynthia Kim SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol survived an impeachment vote in parliament on Saturday prompted by his short-lived attempt to impose martial law this week, but the leader of his own party said the president would eventually step down. Yoon’s People Power Party boycotted the …
By Alexander Cornwell MANAMA, Bahrain (Reuters) – The U.S. believes that an alleged sweeping Chinese cyber espionage campaign known as Salt Typhoon targeted and recorded telephone calls of “very senior” American political figures, a White House official said on Saturday. The comments by Anne Neuberger, the U.S. deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging …
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Six Pakistani soldiers and 22 militants were killed in armed clashes in a northwestern region near the Afghan border on Saturday, the army said, as Islamist fighters increase their attacks on security forces in the area. The firefights took place in three districts after soldiers conducted intelligence-based operations in Waziristan and its adjoining …
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By Sarah Marsh BERLIN (Reuters) -Alice Weidel, the chancellor candidate of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), is an unlikely public face for a male-dominated, anti-immigration party that depicts itself as a defender of traditional family values and ordinary people. The 45-year-old is raising two sons with a Sri Lankan-born woman, a filmmaker, and speaks …
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By Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol faces the greatest challenge of his brief but chequered political career, despite surviving a bruising impeachment challenge, as members of his own party called for him to resign for imposing martial law. Yoon was regarded as a tough political survivor but became increasingly …
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SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol survived an impeachment motion in the opposition-led parliament on Saturday that was prompted by his short-lived attempt to impose martial law this week, after members of his party boycotted the vote. (Reporting by Josh Smith)
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s opposition-led parliament on Saturday rejected a bill proposing a special investigation into first lady Kim Keon Hee, a televised parliament session showed. (Reporting by Joyce Lee, Cynthia Kim; Editing by William Mallard)
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s ruling party lawmakers on Saturday decided to oppose an impeachment vote of President Yoon Suk Yeol and a special counsel investigation bill on the first lady, local Yonhap News reported. Opposition parties will need a handful of votes from Yoon’s party to pass the impeachment bill brought on by the …
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol on Saturday apologised for causing a public stir by declaring martial law and promised there will not be a second martial law declaration, he said in a televised address. (Reporting by Cynthia Kim; Editing by Michael Perry)
