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1 week ago | 
flipboard.com | Patrick Kingsley |Jin Young
14 hours agoFrance: Thousands rally in Paris to protest Israeli attacks on GazaSHOTLIST: PARIS, FRANCE (MAY 25, 2025) (ANADOLU – ACCESS ALL) 1. PEOPLE CARRYING FLAGS, BANNERS / PEOPLE CHANTING SLOGANS (TWO SHOTS) 2. PEOPLE CARRYING FLAGS, BANNERS, FLARES (TWO SHOTS) 3.
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1 week ago | 
nytimes.com | Patrick Kingsley |Jin Young
Jake Wood quit the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, saying it was "not possible" to implement a new Israeli-backed aid system in the enclave while remaining neutral and independent. The head of a group overseeing a contentious new aid program in the Gaza Strip resigned on Sunday, hours before the program was set to start operating, saying that he had found it impossible to perform the job independently.
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1 month ago | 
miamiherald.com | Ali Watkins |Jin Young |Ian Austen
A driver plowed into a group of partygoers attending a Filipino street festival on Saturday evening in Vancouver, British Columbia, killing at least nine people, according to authorities. Vancouver police said earlier that they were investigating a “mass casualty incident” at a neighborhood block party. Police said they had taken “a lone suspect” into custody at the scene: the driver, a 30-year-old Vancouver man.
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2 months ago | 
nytimes.com | Choe Sang-Hun |John Yoon |Yan Zhuang |Jin Young
"South Korea has managed to avoid the worst outcomes and can see light at the end of a long political crisis," Leif-Eric Easley, a professor of international studies at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, said about Friday's ruling.
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2 months ago | 
cnas.org | Jin Young |Choe Sang-Hun |John Yoon |Yan Zhuang
South Korea’s top court ended months of political turmoil when it unanimously decided to remove the impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol on Friday, clearing the way for the country to elect a new leader. But the political crisis that Mr. Yoon triggered with his misjudged declaration of martial law in December — and his ensuing impeachment by the National Assembly — exposed a deep fissure in South Korea’s polarized politics that may prove harder to heal.
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2 months ago | 
flipboard.com | Jin Young |Choe Sang-Hun
1 hour agoSouth Korea: Shell-shocked South Korean evacuees lament loss of homes in deadly wildfiresStoryline: Residents at a temporary shelter in South Korea are coming to terms with the shock of losing their homes in the worst wildfires in the country's history, with the deadly blazes which have been burning since late last month forcing tens of thousands of people to be evacuated.
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Feb 26, 2025 | 
sanjuandailystar.com | Jin Young |Yan Zhuang
By Jin Yu Young and Yan ZhuangFour workers were killed, and six others were injured when part of a highway bridge under construction collapsed in South Korea on Tuesday morning, officials said. By the afternoon, all 10 workers who were at the site were accounted for, South Korea’s National Fire Agency said, after emergency crews had searched through the rubble for victims. The collapse happened about 9:50 a.m. local time near the city of Cheonan, about 50 miles south of Seoul, the capital.
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Feb 17, 2025 | 
nytimes.com | Meaghan Tobin |Jin Young
The South Korean government said on Monday that it had temporarily suspended new downloads of an artificial intelligence chatbot made by DeepSeek, the Chinese company that has sent shock waves through the tech world. On Monday night, the app was not available in the Apple or Google app stores in South Korea, although DeepSeek was still accessible via a web browser.
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Jan 28, 2025 | 
flipboard.com | Jin Young |Isabella Kwai
3 hours agoHigh-speed rail proponents who look forward to the bullet train connecting Southern California to Las Vegas may get sticker shock from the initial ticket prices. In recent filings that seek to raise $2.5 billion in a bond offering, Brightline West revealed that ticket prices for the trip would range …
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Jan 28, 2025 | 
thenewstribune.com | Jin Young |Isabella Kwai |John Yoon |Niraj Chokshi
An Air Busan plane caught fire at an airport in Busan, South Korea, on Tuesday night, forcing all passengers and crew members to evacuate, officials said. The plane, an Airbus A321, had been scheduled to fly to Hong Kong from Gimhae International Airport, fire officials said, when a fire broke out near its tail at around 10:30 p.m. before takeoff.
