South Korean opposition leader Lee Jae-myung was attacked and injured by an unidentified man during a visit to the south-eastern city of Busan, officials said. Busan’s emergency office said Mr Lee was attacked on Tuesday as he visited the construction site of a new airport in the city. It said Mr Lee, head of the […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean opposition leader Lee Jae-myung was attacked and injured by an unidentified man during a visit Tuesday to the southeastern city of Busan, emergency officials said. Busan’s emergency office said Lee was attacked as he visited the construction site of a new airport in the city. It said Lee, […]
South Korean opposition party leader Lee Jae-myung was attacked on Tuesday while talking to reporters in the port city of Busan, Yonhap news agency reported. Images aired on South Korean television channels showed Lee on the ground as someone pressed a handkerchief on his neck. Video on social media appeared to show a man wearing […]
Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) claimed on social media Monday to have killed a Hamas commander who took part in the terrorist group’s invasion of Israel on Oct. 7, in which they overran the border and massacred 1,200 people. In a post on X, the IDF said it eliminated Adil Mismah, the Nukhba Company commander of […]
DUBAI/CAIRO (Reuters) – The leader of Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo met on Monday with civilian pro-democracy politicians in Addis Ababa, the latest stop in a foreign tour as his troops take the upper-hand in a devastating nine-month war. The meeting comes as General Dagalo, known as Hemedti, has appeared to […]
Israeli opposition leader Jair Lapid has expressed his support for the Supreme Court after it overturned a key element of the government’s controversial judicial reform. “The Supreme Court’s decision closes a difficult year of strife that has torn us apart from within and led to the worst catastrophe in our history,” Lapid wrote on Monday […]
BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — The Bosnian Serbs’ separatist leader vowed to carry on weakening his war-scarred country to the point where it will tear apart, despite a pledge by the United States to prevent such an outcome. “I am not irrational, I know that America’s response will be to use force … but I […]
It might be comforting to think that American democracy has made it past the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. But our research shows that a wide range of the American people, of all political stripes, seek leaders who are fundamentally anti-democratic. It’s true that many who participated in the insurrection are facing consequences, including prison time. […]
A civil rights leader was escorted by police out of a North Carolina movie theater after he insisted on using his own chair for medical reasons, prompting an apology from the nation’s largest movie theater chain. The incident occurred Tuesday in Greenville during a showing of “The Color Purple.” The Rev. William Barber II said […]
An associate of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been sentenced to nine years in prison, the latest move in a relentless Kremlin crackdown on dissent. Ksenia Fadeyeva, a regional legislator who headed a local branch of Navalny’s organisation in the Siberian city of Tomsk, was convicted on charges of organising an extremist group. […]
Dec. 28—HIGH POINT — Jim Armstrong, a longtime business and civic leader who was one of High Point’s biggest cheerleaders, both personally and professionally, has died. Armstrong, 89, died Monday at TerraBella Senior Living in Asheboro. “He was such a cheerleader for High Point,” said Judy Mendenhall, former president of the High Point Chamber of […]
After a federal administrative judge found a Colorado Starbucks worker was illegally fired for organizing a union, that judge ordered the coffee giant to not only rehire her, but issue back pay and write a letter of apology. Barista Alendra ‘Len’ Harris says she feels validated by Judge Ira Sandron’s ruling, which she says also backs up […]