Catch up:Police arrest South Korea’s president; American senators grill Hegseth

Police arrested Yoon Suk Yeol, South Korea’s president, after a six-hour stand-off at his residence. Investigators will quest...

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Catch up:Police arrest South Korea’s president; Qatar says Gaza deal “very close”

Police arrested Yoon Suk Yeol, South Korea’s president, after a six-hour stand-off at his residence. Investigators will quest...

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Catch up:Second attempt to arrest South Korean president; Gaza deal “very close”

Police in South Korea tried for a second time to arrest Yoon Suk Yeol, the president, who was impeached after he briefly decl...

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Catch up:Gaza deal “very close”; Ukraine’s big aerial attack on Russia

Qatari officials said that a ceasefire deal in Gaza was “very close” as negotiations between Israel and Hamas entered their “...

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Violent jihadists are getting frustrated by the new Syria

The new commander of the old city of Damascus was miffed. Syria’s new de facto leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, had just reversed his...

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Catch up:DoJ had “sufficient” evidence to convict Trump; breakthrough in Gaza ceasefire talks

America’s Department of Justice had “sufficient” evidence to convict Donald Trump in a trial for seeking to overturn the pres...

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Homelessness in England has risen by 26% in the past five years

AARON IS HAVING a bad day. It is 7pm and foggy in Manchester city centre, the temperature is just above freezing and the late...

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India’s Faustian pact with Russia is strengthening

EVER SINCE the start of the war in Ukraine, the West has tried to persuade India to distance itself from Russia. India has co...

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Iran is vulnerable to a Trumpian all-out economic assault

On November 25th the Elva, a tanker flagged in São Tomé and Príncipe, clandestinely picked up 2m barrels of Iranian crude off...

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Catch up:Breakthrough in Gaza ceasefire talks; DoJ had “sufficient” evidence to convict Trump

President Joe Biden said that a ceasefire deal in Gaza was on “the brink” of being finalised. On Monday Qatar, which is hosti...

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