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Georgia’s ruling party on Saturday installed a far-right former footballer as president in a controversial election process, amid a deepening constitutional crisis and weeks of mass pro-EU protests.The Black Sea nation has been in turmoil since the governing Georgian Dream party claimed victory in contested October parliamentary elections. Its decision last month to delay European Union …

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Hours before rebel forces seized Damascus and toppled his government on Sunday, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was already out of the country, telling hardly anyone, five former officials told AFP.The night before, Assad had even asked his close adviser Buthaina Shaaban to prepare a speech — which the ousted leader never gave — before flying …

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Cyclone Chido inflicted “catastrophic” damage on the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte on Saturday, a senior local official told AFP, battering the archipelago with winds of up to 220 kilometres (137 miles) per hour.”We don’t know if anyone has been killed but, given the damage, it’s likely,” said Madi Madi Souf, head of the …

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South Koreans wept and screamed with joy in freezing Seoul on Saturday as parliament voted to remove President Yoon Suk Yeol from office over his failed bid to impose martial law.Inside the ornate seat of South Korea’s hard-won democracy, lawmakers voted 204 to 85 to impeach Yoon for his “insurrectionary” push to suspend civilian rule …

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Turkey was set to reopen its embassy in Damascus on Saturday, nearly a week after president Bashar al-Assad was toppled by forces backed by Ankara, and 12 years after the diplomatic outpost was shuttered early in Syria’s civil war.The move came as Middle Eastern and Western diplomats gathered in Jordan for high-level talks on Syria, …

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South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was impeached on Saturday in a parliamentary vote after his short-lived declaration of martial law last week.He is now the third South Korean president to be impeached by parliament, and if upheld by the Constitutional Court would be the second removed from office. Several others have seen their rule …

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Georgia’s ruling party is set to appoint a far-right loyalist as president on Saturday in a controversial election process, amid a deepening constitutional crisis and weeks of mass pro-EU protests.The Black Sea nation has been in turmoil since the governing Georgian Dream party claimed victory in contested October parliamentary elections. Its decision last month to delay …

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South Korean lawmakers on Saturday impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol over his failed martial law bid, with the opposition declaring a “victory of the people”.The vote took place as hundreds of thousands took to the streets of Seoul in rival rallies for and against Yoon, who launched a failed attempt to impose martial law on …

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South Korean lawmakers on Saturday began voting on whether to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol over his failed martial law bid, as hundreds of thousands took to the streets of Seoul in rival rallies for and against him.South Korean MPs began voting around 4:30 pm (0730 GMT) on the impeachment resolution — a week after …

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South Korean lawmakers vote Saturday on whether to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol over his failed martial law bid, in a second parliamentary showdown that remains too close to call.Protests demanding Yoon step down kicked off around midday outside the National Assembly, which will vote around 4:00 pm (0700 GMT) on an impeachment resolution for …

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