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S Korea’s parliament impeaches acting President Han

SEOUL, Dec 27 (Reuters): South Korea's parliament impeached acting President Han Duck-soo on Friday over a short-lived martial law, plunging the country deeper into political chaos, as the Constitutional Court said it would swiftly try the suspended President Yoon Suk Yeol.The impeachment of Han, who has been acting president since...

Germany’s president dissolves parliament, sets national election for Feb 23

FRANKFURT, Dec 27 (Arab News): German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Friday ordered parliament dissolved and set new elections for Feb. 23 in the wake of the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's coalition, saying it was the only way to give the country a stable government capable of tackling its problems.Scholz...

Gaza death toll nears 45,400 as Israel kills 23 Palestinians

CAIRO/JERUSALEM, Dec 27 (Reuters): Israeli forces on Friday raided the Kamal Adwan Hospital, one of three medical facilities on the northern edge of the Gaza Strip, torching large sections and ordering dozens of patients and hundreds of others to leave, officials said.Elsewhere in Gaza, Israeli strikes killed at least 25...

NATO to boost military presence in Baltic after cables 'sabotage'

BRUSSELS, Belgium, Dec 27 (AFP): NATO will bolster its military presence in the Baltic Sea after the suspected sabotage of an undersea power cable linking Finland and Estonia this week, the Western military alliance's chief Mark Rutte said on Friday.On Christmas Day, the Estlink 2 submarine cable that carries electricity...

Nasa makes history with closest-ever approach to Sun

WASHINGTON, Dec 27 (BBC): A Nasa spacecraft has made history by surviving the closest-ever approach to the Sun.Scientists received a signal from the Parker Solar Probe just before midnight EST on Thursday (05:00 GMT on Friday) after it had been out of communication for several days during its burning-hot fly-by.Nasa...

US condemns HK bounties, passport revocations for democrats

WASHINGTON, Dec 27 (Reuters): The US State Department said that Hong Kong's (HK) ofered bounties for six more pro-democracy campaigners who were deemed to have violated national security laws and the revoking of the passports of seven more amounted to intimidation efforts.The State Department also separately condemned China for taking...

Scientists observe ‘negative time’ in quantum experiments

TORONTO, Dec 27 (AFP): Scientists have long known that light can sometimes appear to exit a material before entering it -- an effect dismissed as an illusion caused by how waves are distorted by matter.Now, researchers at the University of Toronto, through innovative quantum experiments, say they have demonstrated that...

People on crashed Azerbaijani plane say they heard bangs before it went down

BAKU, Dec 27 (Reuters): Two passengers and one crew member on the Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in Kazakhstan told Reuters that they heard at least one loud bang as it approached its original destination of Grozny in southern Russia.Flight J2-8243 crashed on Wednesday in a ball of fire near...

China’s Xi Jinping to visit Russia in 2025

BEIJING, Dec 27 (Reuters): China's President Xi Jinping will visit Russia in 2025, Russia's state-run RIA news agency quoted Moscow's ambassador to Beijing as saying early on Friday."As for concrete bilateral events, I can say that the appropriate plans are actively being drawn up," ambassador Igor Morgulov told RIA."What can...

Bodies of about 100 Kurdish women, children found in Iraq mass grave

TAL AL-SHAIKHIA (Iraq), Dec 27 (AFP): Iraqi authorities are working to exhume the remains of around 100 Kurdish women and children thought to have been killed in the 1980s under former Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein, three officials said.The grave was discovered in Tal al-Shaikhia in the Muthanna province in southern...