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South Korea’s parliament has voted to impeach the acting president, Han Duck-soo, plunging the country deeper into a political crisis that has caused policy deadlock and damaged its international reputation.

On Friday, the national assembly approved an impeachment motion introduced on Thursday by the main opposition party by a 192-0 vote. …

All eyes in Georgia are fixed on the elegant 19th-century Orbeliani Palace in Tbilisi, where a defining moment looms. Who will occupy its halls on 29 December?

On Sunday, Georgia’s pro-western president, Salome Zourabichvili, is supposed to hand over the keys to her successor, Mikheil Kavelashvili, a former football player …

Batters have signature shots. That’s a given. Certain shapes or sequences of shapes that you associate with that player forever. The Ponting pull, the Lara follow-through over the shoulder, fill your own list. It’s much rarer for bowlers to have signature dismissals. There are so many ways to get players …

More than 28,000 retailers are facing “significant” financial distress at the end of 2024, driven by rising business costs and weak consumer confidence, according to a report.

The number of retailers under the more severe measure of “critical” financial distress jumped 25% to 2,124 in the final three months of …

Magnus Carlsen, the global No 1, stars on Wall Street this weekend as the Norwegian, 34, defends his World Rapid and Blitz crowns in New York against a host of ambitious US and international challengers.

The field of 182 for the World Rapid/Blitz

includes 30 Americans

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The global surge of authoritarian rule in recent years has been stark and alarming. Strongman leaders like Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin have systematically consolidated power, while a new wave of autocratic rulers have emerged from Asia to South America.

This trend has only been further amplified by …

The idea for the country’s first cooperative rail service came to Alex Lawrie in 2004 after another frustrating trip across Somerset.

Having moved to Yeovil four years earlier with his young family, his job as a cooperative development manager involved daily trips across the south-west trying to set up member-owned …

It looks like a giant erect penis, stinks to high heaven and warms up to about the temperature of a human body. This is the inflorescence of the titan arum,

Amorphophallus

The UK steel industry has called for the government to promise to buy British as it prepares for a major expansion of offshore wind generation.

Wind generation has become a

key part of the UK’s energy system

At dusk one afternoon last week, two dozen wounded North Korean soldiers were brought to one of the main hospitals in the Russian city of Kursk.

They were ushered into a specially designated floor, guarded by police, with access limited to translators and medical personnel.

“We were told in the …