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Flags fly at half-mast as South Korea investigates its worst plane crash

The country has started seven days of national mourning, with the acting president flying to the crash site for a memorial Officials initially cited a bird strike...

Trump sides with Musk in right-wing row over worker visas

Musk, who himself migrated from South Africa on an H1-B, posted Thursday on his X platform that luring elite engineering talent from abroad was “essential for America to keep winning”

Bodies of about 100 Kurdish women, children found in Iraq mass grave

TAL AL-SHAIKHIA, Iraq: Iraqi authorities are working to exhume the remains of around 100 Kurdish women and children thought to have been killed in the 1980s under former Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein,...

Voting on acting president’s impeachment expected in South Korea

The voting is expected to take place today December 27 SEOUL - The National Assembly of South Korea is expected to vote today on the impeachment of acting...

Palestinian Christians facing an existential threat

Every year, at Christmas, much of the world turns its eyes to Bethlehem and the world of two millennia ago. Images of the baby Jesus in a manger surrounded by shepherds and...

German president urges unity after ‘dark shadow’ of Christmas market attack

Steinmeier recognized that there was a “great deal of dissatisfaction about politics” in Germany but insisted that “our democracy is and remains strong” BERLIN: Germany’s president said Tuesday that...

Canada’s Trudeau losing support within his party: MPs

Ottawa area MP Chandra Arya: Dozens of Liberal MPs want the prime minister to go Trudeau has huddled with advisers to contemplate his future ahead of elections...

Rival protests in Seoul over South Korea’s impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol

Yoon Suk Yeol’s presidential powers are suspended but he remains in office He has not complied with various summonses by authorities investigating whether martial law

Number of injured people in collision of trains near Murmansk rises to 31

Murmansk Region Governor Andrey Chibis stated earlier in the day that one of victims in the trains’ collision died in a hospital bringing the death toll to two people

Biden, Harris thank major Democratic donors and urge them to stay engaged after tough...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday thanked deep-pocketed Democratic donors who raised record sums in last month’s election loss to President-elect Donald Trump and urged them not to lose hope and...