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The schedulers could not have realized it, however President Biden’s plan to host South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol for a three-day state go to this month comes simply earlier than a milestone anniversary for the historical past of South Korean sports. It was 25 years in the past, on May 17, 1998, {that...

At least 70 our bodies have been pulled from the ocean and 1,200 folks have been rescued after dozens of packed boats tried to cross the Mediterranean.Many others stay lacking after a flurry of makes an attempt to achieve Europe from Tunisia, the place officers say morgues are operating out of house because the demise toll from crossings continues to rise. Around 1,200 folks ended up on a tiny Italian island after coastguard groups responded to 35 boats that had set out from North Africa, crowded with these risking the whole lot to achieve Europe.Three of the vessels obtained into issue, with 23 folks lacking. Around 20 extra boats remained within the sea on Monday evening, Italian rescuers mentioned.Dramatic video shared by the Italian coastguard confirmed folks within the s...

SEOUL | Talk a few triple whammy. In 2019 “Parasite” turned the primary foreign-language movie to snag a “Best Picture” Oscar. In 2020, boy band BTS dominated the music charts and drew comparisons to The Beatles. And a 12 months later, the culture-shaking TV sequence “Squid Game” turned the most-watched pr...

A mission to evacuate British nationals from Sudan has begun - as round 4,000 UK passport holders stay stranded amid heavy preventing.Military flights will depart from an airfield exterior Khartoum and precedence shall be given to households with youngsters, the aged and folks with medical circumstances. It seems to be race in opposition to time as a 72-hour ceasefire started late on Monday - however there are fears over whether or not it would maintain.Evacuation effort begins for stranded Britons - Sudan newest"We have started contacting nationals directly and providing routes for departure out of the country," tweeted UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly. People shall be contacted immediately and the federal government stated folks mustn't go to the airfield except they're ...

SEOUL | Celebrity cooks, web influencers and even Hollywood A-listers can’t get sufficient of it. The menu for President Biden’s state dinner with visiting South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol subsequent week hasn’t been set, but when the 2 leaders wish to characteristic a rising star on the world culinary...

A 72-hour ceasefire between Sudan's two warring factions is beneath manner because the UK authorities faces strain to "not miss the window" of alternative for evacuations and delivering pressing help.The US-Saudi mediated truce between the Sudanese army and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group started on Monday evening and adopted two days of intense negotiations. The two sides haven't abided by a number of earlier short-term truce offers - however each confirmed on Monday that they'd agreed to the ceasefire.US secretary of state Antony Blinken stated Washington urged each side to "fully uphold" the ceasefire.At least 427 folks have died for the reason that combating erupted over an influence battle between the rival factions within the capital Khartoum 10 days in th...

The director of the upcoming documentary sequence “Queen Cleopatra” dismissed criticisms of “blackwashing” over her option to solid a Black actress because the well-known Egyptian queen. Tina Gharavi penned a Saturday column for Variety the place she admitted that having Adele James play Cleopatra is a “po...

Separatist chief Amritpal Singh has been arrested by Indian police after weeks on the run.The 30-year-old preacher is a supporter of the Khalistan motion for a separate Sikh homeland and had been on the run since final month. He captured nationwide consideration in February when lots of of his supporters stormed a police station in Ajnala, a city in Punjab state, with wood batons, swords and weapons to demand the discharge of a jailed aide.On Sunday, Punjab state police tweeted that Singh had been arrested within the city of Moga. Image: Supporters of the Waris Punjab De organisation at a rally in Amritsar, India, final month Singh reportedly surrendered to police after providing morning prayers at a Sikh shrine earlier ...

The House Select Committee on China is getting ready new proposals to crack down on the Chinese authorities’s suspected use of clandestine “police stations” contained in the United States to watch dissidents and expatriate Chinese nationals, based on Rep. Mike Gallagher, the Wisconsin Republican who chairs the not too long ago created panel. ...

If diplomacy is the "patriotic art of lying for one's country" then few do it higher than Sergei Lavrov.He is the international minister who insisted Russia would by no means invade Ukraine, then, as soon as they'd, insisted that they weren't. And final month he decreased an viewers in Delhi to helpless laughter when he mentioned Ukraine had launched the warfare in opposition to Russia. And at this time the Jedi grasp of the darkish arts of Russian diplomacy addresses the UN Security Council as its chair, with Russia holding its presidency for a month. Ukraine has condemned all of it as a "bad April Fool's joke". Please use Chrome browser for a extra accessible video participant ...