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  • Court issues warrant to detain impeached President Yoon in martial law probe

    Date: 2024-12-31 07:31:38 GMT - south korea - World - SN:8 - ID:11010669

    SEOUL, Dec 31 (MENA) - A Seoul court on Tuesday issued a warrant to detain impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol over his botched martial law imposition, making him the first sitting South Korean president to face arrest, Yonhap reported. The Seoul ....

  • Russian war casualties in Ukraine up by 1,610 over past day

    Date: 2024-12-31 07:22:32 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:7 - ID:11010658

    KIEV, Dec 31 (MENA) - The total combat losses of the Russian forces in Ukraine from February 24, 2022, to Tuesday, December 31, 2024, amount to approximately 789,550 personnel, with 1,610 of these losses occurring over the past day. The General ....

  • Cuba frees Salvadoran jailed over 1997 hotel bombings

    Date: 2024-12-31 07:19:43 GMT - Cuba - World - SN:6 - ID:11010656

    HAVANA, Dec 31 (MENA) - Cuba released on Monday a Salvadoran man, Raul Ernesto Cruz Leon, after he served 30 years in prison over a wave of 1997 hotel bombings, Barron's magazine quoted local media as saying. "Today, after serving his sentence, ....

  • State funeral, national day of mourning set for Jimmy Carter

    Date: 2024-12-30 15:58:05 GMT - USA - World - SN:22 - ID:11010189

    WASHINGTON, Dec 30 (MENA) - Tributes continue to pour in after Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, died on Sunday. He was surrounded by his family at his home in Plains, Georgia, in his final moments, CNN said. Carter’s ....

  • Flags fly at half-staff at White House to honor Jimmy Carter

    Date: 2024-12-30 07:47:26 GMT - USA - World - SN:6 - ID:11009516

    WASHINGTON, Dec 30 (MENA) - Flags flew at half-staff at the White House to honor former president Jimmy Carter who died Sunday. Carter, the 39th president of the United States, died “peacefully” in his Georgia home, the Carter Center confirmed. ....

  • Former US president Jimmy Carter dies at 100

    Date: 2024-12-29 22:28:06 GMT - USA - World - SN:61 - ID:11009388

    WASHINGTON, Dec 29 (MENA) - Former US president Jimmy Carter has died at age 100. Carter served as the 39th president of the United States and 76th governor of Georgia and won a Nobel Prize for his work as a global humanitarian dedicated to ....

  • US magazine casts doubts over South Korea plane crash

    Date: 2024-12-29 21:48:24 GMT - USA - World - SN:59 - ID:11009360

    NEW YORK, Dec 29 (MENA) - Experts have raised doubts that a bird strike alone could have caused the fatal plane crash that happened in South Korea on Sunday, the US Newsweek magazine reached out to the South Korean embassy in Washington, D.C., via ....

  • Biden offers assistance to South Korea following tragic plane crash

    Date: 2024-12-29 20:50:24 GMT - USA - World - SN:56 - ID:11009356

    WASHINGTON, Dec 29 (MENA) – US President Joe Biden expressed his country’s readiness to provide any necessary assistance to South Korea following a tragic plane crash, as reported by Alhurra News. The aircraft, operated by South Korea’s Jeju Air, ....

  • Russia not satisfied with Trump team’s proposals on Ukraine — Lavrov

    Date: 2024-12-29 17:04:50 GMT - Russia - World - SN:39 - ID:11009184

    MOSCOW, Dec 29 (MENA) - Russia is not satisfied with the proposals of US President-elect Donald Trump's team to postpone Ukraine's membership in NATO for 20 years and to deploy a contingent of EU and UK peacekeepers there, Russian Foreign Minister ....

  • South Korea secures flight data, voice recorders from crashed passenger jet

    Date: 2024-12-29 10:33:45 GMT - south korea - World - SN:18 - ID:11008534

    SEOUL, Dec 29 (MENA) - South Korea's transport ministry said on Sunday that its investigation unit secured the cockpit voice recorder from a crashed passenger jet that has killed at least 167 people onboard, according to The BBC. An official ....

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