Medical workers walk outside a hospital in Seoul on Feb. 22, 2024. South Korean hospitals were thrown into chaos this week as thousands of trainee doctors downed tools to protest medical training reforms. Credit – ANTHONY WALLACE—Getty Images Anxiety is mounting in South Korea’s largest hospitals, now starting to buckle under the gaping absence of […]
Entrepreneur Case Lawrence announced Monday he had collected the 7,000 signatures required to get on the Republican primary election ballot for the 3rd Congressional District. The district, currently held by Rep. John Curtis, who is stepping down to run for the Senate, stretches across much of the eastern side of the state and includes Provo […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Trainee doctors in South Korea began submitting their resignations en masse Monday in protest of a government medical policy, causing reported delays in surgeries and other treatments at hospitals. Doctors’ groups and the government have been squabbling over a government plan to increase the number of medical school admissions by […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is set to appoint a new head for the National Statehood Protection Department of the Ukraine’s SBU Security Service on Feb. 1, following the dismissal of Roman Semenchenko from the position, as per the president’s decree on Jan. 31. “We are aware that we are protecting a democratic Ukraine, in which […]
Head of the “Russian People’s Union” party, Sergey Baburin, who presented himself as a “rival”to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin in the so-called “presidential elections,” withdrew his candidacy, the Kremlin’s propaganda media reported on Jan. 30. This “pseudo-candidate” announced his decision immediately after submitting the necessary signatures to the central election commission for nomination. “In accordance with Article 44 of the Federal Law […]
The government approved a draft of the Ukraine Facility plan for submission to the European Commission, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said on Dec. 29. “Today, we are approving the project of the Ukraine Facility plan for submission to the European Commission. Together with businesses, the public sector, the deputies’ corps, and (Ukraine’s) regions, we have […]
Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers must accelerate the submission of a new bill regulating conscription, the head of the ruling Servant of the People party, David Arakhamia, said on Telegram on Dec. 25. Read also: Defense Ministry mulling e-notifications to replace draft notices “Today [December 25] the government was supposed to submit a bill on mobilization, […]