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Representational image of North Korean soldiers | Photo Credit: AP South Korea’s spy agency said on Friday (December 27, 2024) it had confirmed that a North Korean soldier sent to Russia’s war against Ukraine had been captured by Ukrainian forces. Pyongyang has deployed thousands of troops to reinforce Russia’s military, including in the Kursk border…
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Tokyo, Japan: A Japanese death-row inmate, dubbed the “Black Widow” after she used cyanide to kill her elderly lovers, has died in a detention centre at age 78, officials said on Friday. Chisako Kakehi was sentenced to death for the murder of three men, including her husband, and the attempted murder of another man about…
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Seoul, South Korea: South Korea’s spy agency said Friday it had confirmed that a North Korean soldier sent to back Russia’s war against Ukraine had been captured by Ukrainian forces. Pyongyang has deployed thousands of troops to reinforce Russia’s military, including in the Kursk border region where Ukraine mounted a shock border incursion in August….
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South Korea’s acting President Han Duck-soo speaks at the government complex in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP South Korea’s acting President faced an impeachment vote on Friday (December 27, 2024), as the country struggled to shake off political turmoil sparked by his predecessor’s martial law declaration that shocked the…
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South Korea’s acting President Han Duck-soo speaks at the government complex in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP A majority of South Korea’s parliament voted on Friday (December 27, 2024) to impeach acting President Han Duck-soo. Prime Minister Han has been acting President since President Yoon Suk Yeol was impeached…
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Representational image only. File | Photo Credit: AP China launched a new amphibious assault ship on Friday (December 27, 2024), capable of launching fighter jets and designed to strengthen the navy’s combat ability in distant seas. The Sichuan, the first ship of the 076 type, is China’s largest such ship yet, displacing 40,000 tonnes and…
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File picture of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his then British counterpart David Cameron | Photo Credit: PTI Former British Prime Minister David Cameron has mentioned in his memoir that Manmohan Singh had told him after the July 2011 Mumbai bombings that in case of another such attack, India would have to take military…
Representative image | Photo Credit: Getty Images Cosmetic companies would have to take extra steps to ensure that any products containing talc are free of asbestos under a new proposed federal rule. The proposal from the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday (December 27, 2024) and mandated by Congress is intended to reassure consumers about…
New Delhi: India’s epochal civil nuclear agreement with the United States in 2008 will remain a crowning glory for Manmohan Singh’s prime ministership in the foreign policy domain as it not only ended the country’s nuclear apartheid but created a favourable geopolitical configuration. Dr Singh, the then prime minister, was so convinced about the futuristic…
A new round of Israeli airstrikes in Yemen on Thursday (December 26, 2024) targeted the Houthi rebel-held capital and multiple ports, while the World Health Organization’s director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the bombardment occurred nearby as he prepared to board a flight in Sanaa, with a crew member injured. “The air traffic control tower, the…
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