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South Korea declares martial law – leader urged to resign or face impeachment South Korea’s main opposition party on Wednesday urged president Yoon Suk Yeol to resign immediately or face impeachment, hours after Mr Yoon ended short-lived martial law that prompted troops to encircle parliament before lawmakers voted to lift it. On Tuesday night, Mr Yoon abruptly imposed the emergency martial law, vowing to eliminate “anti-state” forces after he struggled to push forward his agenda in the opposition-dominated parliament. But his martial law was effective for only about six hours, as the National Assembly voted to overrule the president. The…

El Pais Front Page 4/12/2024The front page of the Spanish newspaper El Pais leads with the chaos in South Korea following the president’s decision to declare martial law. South Korea has been tense for hours after its president, Yoon Suk-yeol, declared martial law after accusing the opposition of controlling parliament and sympathising with North Korea.The investigating magistrate Ángel Luis Hurtado, who also summons eight journalists to testify, makes the decision at the request of Álvaro García Ortiz.

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Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah of the ruling SWAPO party won Namibia’s presidential elections outright in the first round with 57% of the vote, results published by the electoral commission on Tuesday showed.  Clearing half the total votes cast meant no second-round runoff was necessary. 

The Independent front page 4/12/2024 The front page of The Independent leads on the Chancellor backtracking on her pledge not to increase taxes on business.The main image is of the turmoil in South Korea after the President declared martial law and protesters took to the streets.  Fears are growing that Labour could be planning a new tax raid after Rachel Reeves refused to confirm her recent pledge not to repeat her £40bn Budget hikes. South Korea’s opposition lawmakers on Wednesday filed a formal motion for impeachment of president Yoon Suk Yeol following a brief and controversial declaration of martial law.

The Guardian front page 4/12/2024  The front page of The Guardian reports on the turmoil in South Korea after the president declared martial law, before parliament rejected it and now the opposition are calling for impeachment.  South Korean opposition parties said they had submitted a motion to impeach the president, Yoon Suk Yeol, over his short-lived declaration of martial law. “We’ve submitted an impeachment motion prepared urgently,” representatives for six opposition parties including the main Democratic party said on Wednesday, adding they would discuss when to put it to a vote, but it could come as soon as Friday. A…

A grandmother looking for her lost cat apparently fell into a sinkhole that had recently opened above an abandoned western Pennsylvania coal mine and rescuers worked late into the night on Tuesday to try and find her.Bright lights illuminated snow flurries and various equipment at the site while crews worked above and below ground, video from the scene showed.Crews lowered a pole camera with a sensitive listening device into the hole in Marguerite on Tuesday morning but it detected nothing.A camera lowered into the hole showed what could be a shoe about 30 feet (nine metres) below the surface, according…

A grandmother looking for her lost cat apparently fell into a sinkhole that had recently opened above an abandoned western Pennsylvania coal mine and rescuers worked late into the night on Tuesday to try and find her.Bright lights illuminated snow flurries and various equipment at the site while crews worked above and below ground, video from the scene showed.Crews lowered a pole camera with a sensitive listening device into the hole in Marguerite on Tuesday morning but it detected nothing.A camera lowered into the hole showed what could be a shoe about 30 feet (nine metres) below the surface, according…

Culture Minister Rachida Dati (right) and her Saudi counterpart Prince Badr Bin Farhan Al Saoud at the Ministry of Culture in Paris, France, November 11, 2024. BALKIS PRESS/ABACA The French companies escorting Emmanuel Macron on his three-day state visit to Saudi Arabia don’t yet know if they’ll be leaving with any lucrative contracts in their suitcases. For the time being, France has capitalized on the only asset that the conflagration in the Middle East and Donald Trump’s return to the White House are unlikely to compromise: culture. It is a key element in the vast societal transformation operation undertaken by…

This handout picture released by the Saudi Ministry of Media shows French President Emmanuel Macron speaking in the One Water Summit during an official visit in the capital Riyadh on December 3, 2024. – / AFP French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday, December 3, rejected calls to resign to break a political impasse in the country, saying such a scenario amounted to “political fiction.” “It doesn’t make sense… it’s frankly not up to scratch to say these things,” Macron, whose government faces a no-confidence vote in parliament on Wednesday, told reporters on the sidelines of a visit to Saudi Arabia.…