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Police keep watch as supporters of impeached South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol gather near the presidential residence in Seoul on December 31, 2024. (JUNG YEON-JE / AFP)
December 31, 2024, 10:14 am
South Korea issues arrest warrant for impeached president over martial law gambit
Move ordered after Yoon, facing charges of insurrection, fails to show up for questioning; lawyers for suspended conservative leader claim warrant ‘invalid’
By AFP
South Korea's National Police Agency Commissioner Yoon Hee-keun (C) bows during a press conference on the deadly Halloween crowd surge, at the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency in Seoul on November 1, 2022. (YONHAP / AFP)
November 1, 2022, 11:15 am
Response to crowd surge at Seoul Halloween party was ‘insufficient,’ police admit
At least 156 mostly young people were killed in crush late Saturday at the first post-pandemic Halloween party in popular Itaewon nightlife district
By Cat Barton and Sunghee Hwang
Rescue workers and firefighters work on the scene of a crushing accident in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, October 29, 2022. (Lee Ji-eun/Yonhap via AP)
October 29, 2022, 11:19 pm
At least 151 dead after Halloween crowd surge on narrow street in Seoul
Officials say 150 more injured in crush during festivities
By AP
An illustrative image of a smart robotic farming concept. (sarawuth702 via iStock by Getty Images)
April 14, 2022, 6:35 pm
Israel, South Korea launch new program for robotics tech cooperation
Initiative to offer funding of up to $5.3 million per joint project for two to four years
By Ricky Ben-David
An Archdruid performs a ritual near the cordoned off Stonehenge as a small group of people gathered to celebrate the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year, near Salisbury, England, June 21, 2020. (Ben Birchall/PA via AP)
June 21, 2020, 4:32 pm
Spain opens border to tourists; Trump wants less coronavirus testing
Madrid rolls back lockdown to save economy while US president is accused of placing politics ahead of safety to keep confirmed cases down; virus overshadows summer solstice in UK
By Joseph Wilson and Joe McDonald
Cemetery workers carry the coffin with the corpse of Flavio Juárez, 50, who died from COVID-19, at the Nueva Esperanza cemetery on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, May 26, 2020. (Rodrigo Abd/AP)
May 27, 2020, 12:46 pm
World coronavirus death toll tops 350,000, with over 5.5 million cases
Europe has seen 2,057,414 infections, while the US has registered the most deaths of any country at 98,929; numbers still rising in some areas
By Agencies and ToI Staff
North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un (L) shakes hands with South Korea's President Moon Jae-in (R) at the Military Demarcation Line that divides their countries ahead of their summit at the truce village of Panmunjom on April 27, 2018.(AFP PHOTO / Korea Summit Press Pool / Korea Summit Press Pool)
April 28, 2018, 12:33 pm
North Korea says historic summit opens ‘new era for peace’
Kim Jong Un and South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in confirm common goal of ‘realizing, through complete denuclearization, a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula’
By Park Chan-Kyong
In this Nov. 27, 2017, file photo, North Korean soldiers look at the South side as a South Korean stands guard near the spot where a North Korean soldier crossed the border on Nov. 13 at the Panmunjom, in the Demilitarized Zone, South Korea. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)
April 21, 2018, 9:25 am
China welcomes N. Korea’s decision to halt nuclear tests
Announcement by Kim Jong-un comes comes less than a week before meeting with South Korean leader Moon Jae-in for a summit in the Demilitarized Zone that divides the peninsula
By ToI Staff and AFP
In this Wednesday, April 18, 2018 photo, North Korean soldiers march at the border village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone with South Korea. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
April 21, 2018, 9:17 am
N. Korea’s Kim promises no more nuclear or missile tests
Pyongyang’s declaration, long sought by Washington, will be seen as a crucial step in the fast diplomatic dance on and around the Korean peninsula
By AFP
In this photo from March 5, 2018, provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, shakes hands with South Korean National Security Director Chung Eui-yong in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)
March 24, 2018, 6:03 am
North Korea agrees to inter-Korean talks next week
Planned summit comes amid a rapid rapprochement kicked off with the recent Winter Olympics in the South
By AFP
US President Donald Trump addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center February 23, 2018 in National Harbor, MD (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)
February 24, 2018, 8:01 am
Trump announces ‘heaviest ever’ sanctions on North Korea
President looking to step up his campaign of ‘maximum pressure’ designed to force Pyongyang to roll back its weapons programs
By AFP
Ivanka Trump in the Oval Office of the White House on February 14, 2018 in Washington, DC. (AFP/Mandel Ngan)
February 21, 2018, 11:17 pm
Ivanka Trump to attend Winter Olympics finale in S. Korea
Trip by Trump’s eldest daughter comes in the wake of visit to the Pyeongchang Games by top North Korean officials
By AFP
Illustrative: A South Korean army soldier walks by a TV news program showing a file image of missiles being test-launched by North Korea, at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, May 14, 2017. (AP/Ahn Young-joon)
August 26, 2017, 2:26 am
Seoul: N. Korea fires ‘unidentified projectiles’ to sea
US and South Korean intelligence authorities analyzing trajectories of the unknown objects
By AFP
A South Korean soldier walks past a television screen showing a graphic of the distance between North Korea and Guam at a railway station in Seoul on August 9, 2017. (AFP Photo/Jung Yeon-Je)
August 11, 2017, 11:50 am
As tensions soar, S. Korean media urge nuclear arms
Seoul, host to 28,500 US troops to defend it from the North, is banned from building atomic weapons under 1974 deal
By Jung Ha-Won
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov speaks during a joint press conference after talks with his Russian and Syrian counterparts in Moscow on April 14, 2017 (AFP PHOTO / Alexander NEMENOV)
April 17, 2017, 2:02 pm
Russia warns US against unilateral strike on North Korea
Moscow says it does not accept Pyongyang’s ‘reckless nuclear actions’ but states Washington must not ‘break international law’
By AFP and ToI Staff
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