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South Korea investigators ask prosecutors to indict President Yoon for insurrection and abuse of power

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s anti-corruption officials on Thursday requested that prosecutors indict impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol for insurrection and abuse of power over his short-lived martial law declaration. The Corruption Investigation Office for High-Ranking Officials (CIO) named Yoon, the first sitting president to be arrested in South Korea’s history, as the ringleader of an …

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Yemen’s Houthis free crew of ship held for more than a year over Israel-Hamas war

DUBAI — Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis have released the crew of the Galaxy Leader more than a year after they seized their Bahamas-flagged vessel off the Yemeni Red Sea coast, Houthi-owned Al Masirah TV reported Wednesday. It said the crew were handed to Oman “in coordination” with the three-day-old ceasefire in Gaza’s war between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas. …

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Trump’s pardons delight Jan. 6 offenders

WASHINGTON — Gina Bisignano’s strategy paid off. For years, the Jan. 6 defendant had done anything and everything she could to delay her criminal case in connection with her actions during the Capitol attack, hoping and praying that Donald Trump would be re-elected and pardon her. On Monday, just two …

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New York,’ dies after brain surgery due to ski accident

Jewelry designer Lynn Ban, who starred in the Netflix reality series “Bling Empire: New York,” died weeks after she underwent emergency brain surgery due to a skiing accident, her son announced Wednesday. “She always had a smile on her face even when times were tough during her recovery process,” her …

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‘We’re in the era of the billionaire,’ human rights expert says. Here’s why wealth accumulation is accelerating

The rich are getting richer. The combined wealth of the world’s most wealthy rose to $15 trillion from $13 trillion in just 12 months, according to Oxfam’s latest annual inequality report — notching the second largest annual increase in billionaire wealth since the global charity began tracking this data. Last year alone, roughly 204 new …

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