Recent Updates
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Trump’s tariffs expose Ukraine’s steel industry to another war
International 02/17/2025The steel mill in a partially occupied region of Ukraine is a dystopian maze of flames, chutes and tentacled pipes, vast enough to be a small city. Thunderous blazes of sparks flash above the open furnaces where workers smelt iron ore into streams of...
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Pakistani court sentences 4 people to death for blasphemy
International 01/25/2025A Pakistani court Saturday sentenced four people to death for blasphemy, allegedly because they posted sacrilegious material on social media about Islamic religious figures and the Quran. Their lawyer said appeal preparations are underway.Under the c...
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South Korea’s Yoon defends his martial law decree in his first public appearance
International 01/23/2025South Korea’s impeached president denied Tuesday that he ordered the military to drag lawmakers out of the National Assembly to prevent them from voting to reject his martial law decree last month, as he appeared for the first time before the C...
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South Korean leaders seek calm after Yoon is impeached
International 12/16/2024South Korea’s opposition leader offered Sunday to work with the government to ease the political tumult as officials sought to reassure allies and markets, a day after the opposition-controlled parliament voted to impeach conservative President...
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Chinese leaders pledge ‘moderately loose’ monetary policy
International 12/09/2024China’s top leaders have pledged to loosen monetary policy and provide more support for the slowing economy, while Premier Li Qiang swiped at threats of higher tariffs on Chinese exports, saying they hinder global growth. Shares in Hong Kong ju...
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Romanian court orders a recount of presidential election first round
International 11/28/2024A top Romanian court on Thursday asked the official electoral authority to recount and verify all of the ballots cast in the first round of the presidential election, which was won by a far-right outsider candidate, sending shockwaves through the pol...
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ICC issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Hamas officials
International 11/20/2024The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants on Thursday for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defense minister and Hamas officials, accusing them of war crimes and crimes against humanity over their 13-month war in Gaz...
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South Korean opposition leader gets a suspended jail term for violating election law
International 11/15/2024South Korean opposition leader Lee Jae-myung was convicted of violating election law and sentenced to a suspended prison term Friday by a court that ruled he made false statements while denying corruption allegations during a presidential campaign.If...
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What to know about the unprecedented floods that killed more than 200 in Spain
International 11/04/2024In a matter of minutes, flash floods caused by heavy downpours in eastern Spain swept away almost everything in their path. With no time to react, people were trapped in vehicles, homes and businesses. Many died and thousands of livelihoods were shat...
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South Korean court acquits former police chief over deadly crowd crush
International 10/17/2024A South Korean court found the former police chief of the country’s capital and two other officers not guilty over a botched response to a Halloween crowd crush that killed nearly 160 people in 2022.The verdict by the Seoul Western District Cou...
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Senior Hong Kong journalist is sentenced to prison in sedition case
International 09/26/2024A Hong Kong court sentenced a former editor of a shuttered news publication to 21 months in prison on Thursday in a sedition case that is widely seen as an indicator of media freedom in the city, once hailed as a beacon of press freedom in Asia. A se...
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Former Singaporean minister pleads guilty to receiving illegal gifts
International 09/24/2024A former Singaporean cabinet minister pleaded guilty to charges of receiving illegal gifts Tuesday, in the Asian financial hub’s first ministerial criminal trial in nearly half a century.Former Transport Minister S. Iswaran pleaded guilty to on...