South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was banned from leaving the country by the nation’s Justice Ministry on Monday, after he briefly declared martial law last week. Yoon’s decree last Tuesday, which brought soldiers onto the streets of Seoul, plunged the country into political turmoil and sparked international concern. Authorities are now investigating the president […]
France’s government was ousted after lawmakers voted in favor of a no-confidence motion on Wednesday. This is the first time in six decades that a government of the Fifth Republic has fallen in such fashion. The move has set the eurozone’s second-biggest economy sailing on a course bound for political and economic turbulence Prime Minister […]
European leaders meeting in Budapest, Hungary, have urged President-elect Donald Trump to continue U.S. support for Ukraine and avoid trade wars. The summit on Nov. 7 is a meeting of the wider European Political Community (EPC), which includes non-EU states such as the UK and Switzerland. It will feature a discussion that the European Commission […]
Hezbollah fired a missile at Tel Aviv early on Wednesday morning in its deepest strike yet into Israel. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it intercepted the surface-to-surface missile, which set off air raid sirens in the coastal city and across the central band of the Jewish state. There were no reports of casualties or […]
Lebanese health officials said on Sept. 23 that 492 people were killed in Israeli airstrikes targeting southern Lebanon, as the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced that it had hit 1,600 Hezbollah targets. More than 1,600 people were wounded in the strikes and thousands have fled, with the main highway out of the southern port city […]
A 17-year-old appeared in court on Thursday charged with murdering three girls who were stabbed to death at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport, Merseyside. The teenager, from Banks in Lancashire, appeared at Liverpool Magistrates’ Court where he was also charged with a further 10 counts of attempted murder and possession of a bladed […]
