Rival parties are expected to clash over the role Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn will play as acting president. The opposition side insists that Hwang should also step down, taking joint responsibility for the current political turmoil, triggered by the corruption scandal involving President Park Geun-hye and her confidant Choi Soon-sil. However, the ruling party is […]
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InternationalSouth Korea’s parliament has voted to impeach president Park Guen-hye over a corruption scandal, immediately suspending her powers. 234 out of the national assembly’s 300 lawmakers supported impeachment. The vote, which effectively ends Park’s presidency a year early, will see her authority pass to the Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn. The president’s fate now lies with
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InternationalWASHINGTON/NEW YORK – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has asked senior Goldman Sachs banker Gary Cohn to coordinate economic policy across his administration, turning to Wall Street for expertise in managing the world’s largest economy, NBC News reported on Friday. Trump’s pick of Cohn, 56, the firm’s president and chief operating officer, to head his White
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USAWashington (dpa) – US president-elect Donald Trump is naming Australian-American Andrew Liveris, chairman and chief executive of Dow Chemical Company, to lead a panel to promote US manufacturing. The “American Manufacturing Council” will be “tasked with finding ways to bring industry back to America,” Trump said at a rally with supporters late Friday in Grand
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International, USASantos collects Nobel Prize in Oslo for deal with FARC Quotes anti-war song by Bob Dylan, 2016 literature winner Hopes Colombian deal can inspire peace talks elsewhere Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said an accord to end a 52-year civil war with Marxist rebels was a “ray of hope” for solving conflicts from Syria to
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International, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsDecember 9 is the anniversary of one of those epochal events that shaped the modern world. The fall of Jerusalem, in 1917, during World War I. A Christian-led army — the British — took charge of the Holy City for the first time since the Crusades. Their defeat of the Ottoman Turks opened up the
Washington (dpa) – US President Barack Obama has ordered an intelligence review of “malicious cyber activity” during the US presidential election, the White House said Friday. US intelligence agencies in October pinned hacking of Democratic Party targets on the Russian government. Since then, concerns about Moscow’s attempts to influence the election have continued to grow.
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International, USAGambia’s leader of some 22 years Yahya Jammeh announced late Friday he would no longer accept defeat in recent elections, plunging the West African country into turmoil with a demand for fresh polls. Investigations into the December 1 vote have revealed a string of “unacceptable errors” on the part of electoral authorities, Jammeh said in
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InternationalCarrying what they can, thousands of people are continuing to flee from their homes in the embattled eastern neighbourhoods of the city of Aleppo in Syria. What Russia says The Russian Defence Ministry, quoted by the Interfax news agency, says more than 20,000 civilians have left eastern Aleppo on Saturday. The Ministry also says more
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International, Middle EastOAKLAND, Calif. — As investigators tried to find the cause of a warehouse fire that killed 36 people, Oakland city officials faced more scrutiny over their handling of complaints about the building in the years before the blaze. Despite numerous complaints about conditions both inside and outside the warehouse, city officials have not produced any
In the wake of the US presidential election, a Utah mosque has opened its doors to the non-Muslim community. They’re holding Friday night information sessions called, “Meet the Muslims.” The Utah Islamic Center is tucked inside a strip mall in Sandy, a suburb of Salt Lake City. Shoes fill the entryway shelves and spill out
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USAIn 60 Minutes interview, Israeli leader acknowledges relations with Obama have not always been smooth, though he insists it was never personal By Times of Israel staff Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to CBS’s 60 Minutes in an interview set for broadcast on December 11, 2016 (CBS screenshot) US President-elect Donald Trump feels “very warmly”
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Middle East, USAAccra (dpa) – Ghanaian opposition candidate Nana Akufo-Addo ousted President John Dramani Mahama in this week’s presidential elections, taking 53.85 per cent of the vote, the electoral commission announced Friday. Mahama took 44.4 per cent according to results from 271 out of a total 275 constituencies. “I’ll not let you down. I’ll do all I
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InternationalPresident-elect Donald Trump’s transition team questioned the veracity of assessments by U.S. intelligence officials that Russia-backed hackers interfered in this year’s elections, challenging assertions that the CIA determined Russia sought to help the Republican nominee win the presidency. “These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction,” the transition team
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