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Jan 15, 2025 | 
telegraphindia.com | Choe Sang-Hun |Jin Yu Young |Victoria Kim
Yoon Suk Yeol became the first South Korean leader to be held by criminal investigators, ending a long standoff after he imposed martial law Choe Sang-Hun, Jin Yu Young, Victoria Kim Published 16.01.25, 06:48 AM Yun Suk Yeol. File Photo.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
telegraphindia.com | Victoria Kim
This week, when President Yoon Suk Yeol stood in front of the South Korean people and declared martial law for the first time since then, the outrage was deepest in Gwangju Victoria Kim Gwangju, South Korea Published 07.12.24, 08:11 AM South Korean novelist Han Kang holds up a chair that she signed at the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm on Friday.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
telegraphindia.com | Choe Sang-Hun |John Yoon |Victoria Kim
South Korean officials on Thursday gave the first inside account of the extraordinary step by the president to declare martial law this week, signaling that the move had caused disagreement, surprise and confusion among top military officials. The South Korean general whom President Yoon Suk Yeol named martial law commander testified before lawmakers that he learned of the move only when Yoon announced it on television.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
telegraphindia.com | Victoria Kim
I immediately thought of 1980, and the fear and desperation we felt: 60-year-old lawmaker Victoria Kim Seoul Published 05.12.24, 10:59 AM People attend a candlelight vigil in Seoul on Wednesday condemning South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s surprise declaration of martial law Reuters The last time South Korea was under martial law, Chung Chin-ook was in his first year of high school, more than 40 years ago.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
telegraphindia.com | Euan Ward |Victoria Kim |Gabby Sobelman
Israel’s military carried out airstrikes early Wednesday in Hezbollah-dominated areas in southern Lebanon and outside Beirut. They were Israel’s first attacks in days near the Lebanese capital and came a day after the US said that it had expressed concerns about the scale of Israel’s weekslong bombardment there.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
telegraphindia.com | Victoria Kim |Rawan Ahmad
Wafa, the Palestinian Authority’s official news agency, said 17 people had been killed in all in raids across the territory that began before dawn on Wednesday Victoria Kim, Rawan Sheikh Ahmad Jerusalem Published 30.08.24, 07:19 AM Representational image File image Israel’s large-scale military operations in the occupied West Bank entered a second day on Thursday, with the Israeli military saying it had killed five militants in the city of Tulkarm.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
pressdemocrat.com | Victoria Kim |Hisako Ueno
The U.S. and British ambassadors to Japan said Wednesday they would not attend Nagasaki's annual peace memorial ceremony this week, which marks the day the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city, because Israel had not been invited. Among the invitees to the ceremony Aug. 9, the 79th anniversary of the atomic bomb attack that laid waste to the city, were dignitaries from more than 150 countries and territories.
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May 17, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Victoria Kim
Trucks of humanitarian aid began moving ashore into the Gaza Strip early Friday through a temporary pier built by the US military, the first supplies of aid to be sent into the enclave by sea in two months, but well short of what humanitarian groups say is needed to meet the staggering levels of hunger and deprivation in Gaza.
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Apr 4, 2024 | 
telegraphindia.com | Victoria Kim
Hualien County on Taiwan’s east coast is a scenic, sleepy tourist area tucked away from the island’s urban centres, with a famous gorge and aquamarine waters. It also happens to sit on several active faults, making it prone to earthquakes. The county has a population of about 3,00,000, according to the 2020 census, about a third of whom live in the coastal city of Hualien, the county seat. It is one of the most sparsely populated parts of Taiwan.
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Mar 28, 2024 | 
sanjuandailystar.com | Jacey Fortin |Daniel Victor |Victoria Kim
A Coast Guard boat passes in front of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge and the cargo ship Dali after it struck the bridge in Baltimore, on Tuesday morning, March 26, 2024. Six construction workers who had been fixing potholes on the Francis Scott Key Bridge remained missing as divers and other emergency workers on boats and helicopters continued to search for them. Two others had been rescued.
