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BRITS BRINGING TRUMPS APPLE JUICE COOKIES A DRINKINGCUP
There's also the issue of that expletive wall, as former Mexican president Vicente Fox put it... READ MORE›
TURKEY'S PARLIAMENT SET TO APPROVE SWEEPING NEW POWERS FOR PRESIDENT
MPs pass elements of controversial bill that grants broad powers to country's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan... READ MORE›
PARK GEUN-HYE, SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENT, IS A NO-SHOW AT IMPEACHMENT TRIAL
Kweon Seong-dong, who leads the legal team arguing for impeachment before the Constitutional Court, chided Ms. Park for speaking to reporters but not appearing in court... READ MORE›
ARREST WARRANT SOUGHT FOR SOUTH KOREAN PENSION FUND CHIEF
Moon Hyung-pyo acknowledges that he had pressured Samsung units into US 8 billion merger while head of the health ministry... READ MORE›
ANGER IN ROMANIA AS PRESIDENT BLOCKS FEMALE MUSLIM AS PM NOMINEE
Romania was tipped to have its first female and first Muslim prime minister, until the country's president on Tuesday rejected the Social Democrat Party's nomination... READ MORE›
SOUTH KOREA'S 'RASPUTIN' REFUSES TO LEAVE CELL TO FACE MPS' QUESTIONS
Choi Soon-Sil, a long-time friend of the president, has repeatedly snubbed a parliamentary committee probing a corruption scandal that triggered Park's impeachment earlier this month... READ MORE›
CROWDS CELEBRATE AFTER VOTE TO IMPEACH SOUTH KOREA PRESIDENT
On Friday, the opposition-controlled parliament passed an impeachment motion against Ms Park, which stripped her of presidential duties... READ MORE›
A BILL TO IMPEACH SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENT PARK GEUN-HYE PASSED
A bill to impeach South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Friday passed at the Parliament, winning two-thirds majority as 234 lawmakers voted in favor, 56 against and 2 abstained... READ MORE›
FORMER US ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE CONFUSES COMPLIANCE WITH JOURNALISM -- RT OP-EDGE
South Korean President Park Geun-hye said Tuesday that she will calmly accept the impeachment if it is passed in the scheduled parliamentary vote three days later... READ MORE›
BORIS JOHNSON ENDS SKY NEWS INTERVIEW OVER 'WORLD LEADERS PUB QUIZ'
Foreign secretary walks away from chat with Dermot Murnaghan after being asked to name the South Korean president... READ MORE›
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NO 'BIG' VACATIONS, NO SALARY AS PRESIDENT
As for the president's 400,000-a-year pay, the New York businessman said No, I'm not going to take the salary... READ MORE›
PRESIDENT-ELECT DONALD TRUMP IS ABOUT TO LEARN THE NATION'S 'DEEP SECRETS'
For particularly sensitive operations, the president has to see only that the Gang of Eight is informed... READ MORE›
TENS OF THOUSANDS MARCH DEMANDING SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENT PARK GEUN-HYE RESIGN
The scandal engulfing Park is focused on a close personal friend, Choi Soon-Sil, who is currently under arrest on charges of fraud and abuse of power... READ MORE›
CZECH PRESIDENT SHOCKS NATIONS IN EXPLETIVE-FILLED INTERVIEW
In its defence, Czech Radio has argued as the interview was live it could not be held responsible for the president's language... READ MORE›
WHY SOUTH KOREA'S CORRUPTION SCANDAL IS NOTHING NEW
A scandal is swirling round the South Korean president... READ MORE›
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI PRESIDENT TIM WOLFE'S VERY TELLING RESIGNATION SPEECH
I did hear his reference to the Psalm and thought he was talking about the university's pain and its struggle... READ MORE›
SOUTH KOREA PRESIDENT PARK NAMES KIM BYONG-JOON AS PM
Park's office said on Wednesday that she nominated Kim Byong-joon, a former top policy adviser for late liberal President Roh Moo-hyun, as her new prime minister... READ MORE›
S. KOREAN PRESIDENT RESHUFFLES SENIOR ADVISORS ON CONFIDANTE SCANDAL
South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Sunday reshuffled her secretariat amid growing public outcry over a scandal surrounding her longtime confidante Choi Soon-sil... READ MORE›
VANUATU SPEAKER PARDONS HIMSELF AND 13 MPS
While the president's away vanuatu speaker pardons himself and 13 mps... READ MORE›
FORMER AIDE TESTIFIES THAT S KOREAN PRESIDENT INSTRUCTS DOCUMENT LEAKAGE TO CONFIDANTE[1]
Former aide testifies that S Korean president instructs document leakage to confidante 1 - Chinadaily.com.cn... READ MORE›
MEXICAN PRESIDENT CLEARED OF WRONGDOING IN MANSION PURCHASE
Social media buzzed with messages ridiculing the six-month investigation that was headed by Andrade a presidential appointee... READ MORE›
S.KOREA PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE NAMES NEW PRIME MINISTER, FINANCE MINISTER
Kim Byong-joon, former senior presidential policy secretary under late President Roh Moo-hyun, was appointed as new prime minister... READ MORE›
WEAKENED SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENT ALLOWS PARLIAMENT TO PICK PRIME MINISTER
The scandal involving Ms. Choi was particularly inflammatory in South Korea, partly because of her background... READ MORE›
SOUTH KOREA PARDONS 6,000 CRIMINALS INCLUDING BUSINESS TYCOONS IN MOVE TO HELP ECONOMY
President Park's decision is also expected to renew intense debate surrounding the influence held by chaebol - powerful, family-controlled business groups - in South Korea... READ MORE›
OBAMA IN BEIJING TO ATTEND APEC MEETING
The announcement came after South Korean President Park Geun-hye met with Chinese President Xi Jinping at APEC, apparently completing negotiations that began in May 2012... READ MORE›
BALI NINE: COURT THROWS OUT LEGAL CHALLENGE FROM CHAN, SUKUMARAN
Australian lawyer Julian McMahon, centre, talks to media after the Bali Nine legal challenge is heard in the Administrative Court in Jakarta on Tuesday... READ MORE›
FRENCH PRESIDENT GETS RIDICULED BY MISTAKE ON LIVE-STREAMING APP
French president gets ridiculed by mistake on live-streaming app... READ MORE›
SOUTH KOREAN 'NEW BROOM' MIRED IN OWN CLUMP OF CORRUPTION
South Korean President Park Geun-hye leaves the scene after releasing a statement of apology to the public at the Blue House in Seoul, on Tuesday... READ MORE›
IN A FIRST, WOMEN MAY RUN U.S, U.K., AND GERMANY AT SAME TIME
Place in history Clinton is the first president'sA wife to be elected to the Senate and the first woman to represent New York in the chamber... READ MORE›
PM AND FINANCE MINISTER OUSTED AMID SOUTH KOREA SCANDAL
The Blue House named Kim Byong-joon, a former senior presidential secretary during former President Roh Moo-hyun's administration, as the new prime minister to replace Hwang Kyo-ahn... READ MORE›
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC PRESIDENT NAMES NEW PM
Faustin-Archange Touadera, the Central African Republic's new President, has named his former campaign director Simplice Sarandji as the country's prime minister... READ MORE›
NORTH KOREA'S MOST EXTREME AND ABSURD RHETORIC
Video North Korea's most extreme and absurd rhetoric... READ MORE›
BALI NINE: COURT THROWS OUT LEGAL CHALLENGE FROM CHAN, SUKUMARAN
Australian lawyer Julian McMahon, centre, talks to media after the Bali Nine legal challenge is heard in the Administrative Court in Jakarta on Tuesday... READ MORE›
OBAMA POO-POOS TRUMP'S PRESIDENTIAL AMBITIONS
Speaking at the Asean economic summit in California, the president was asked by a reporter about the presidential prospects for Mr Trump... READ MORE›
KIM YOUNG-SAM, SOUTH KOREAA??S PRESIDENT IN THE 1990S, DIES AT 87
Mr. Kim was an important figure in South Korea's pro-democracy movement and opposed the country's military dictators for decades... READ MORE›
OBAMA HAS SAME PHONE CONVERSATION WITH TWO DIFFERENT WORLD LEADERS
In both calls, Obama condemned the test and reaffirmed the unshakeable U.S. commitment to the security of Japan or South Korea ... READ MORE›
PORTUGUESE WANT NEW PRESIDENT TO MAINTAIN POLITICAL NON-BIAS
The Portuguese will vote for a new president on the 24th of January... READ MORE›
WEATHER HAMPERS SEARCH FOR 50 MISSING AFTER SOUTH KOREA SHIP SINKS OFF RUSSIA
US rescue helicopters joined the search operation for several hours on Tuesday but failed to make headway, South Korean Prime Minister Chung Hong-won told a meeting of government officials... READ MORE›
WEATHER HAMPERS SEARCH FOR 52 MISSING AFTER SOUTH KOREA SHIP SINKS OFF RUSSIA
The South Korean government and Sajo Industries, the vessel's operator, said there were 60 people on board, including 11 South Koreans, 13 Filipinos and 35 Indonesians... READ MORE›
SOUTH KOREAN LAWMAKERS APPROVE NEW PREMIER
South Korea's executive power is concentrated in the president, but the prime minister leads the country if the president becomes incapacitated... READ MORE›