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Who is Han Duck-soo, South Korea’s acting president facing impeachment?
Date: December 26, 2024
By Joyce Lee SEOUL (Reuters) -Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, who became South Korea’s acting president after Yoon Suk Yeol’s impeachment, is a career technocrat whose wide-ranging experience and reputation for rationality may not be enough to stem the country’s deepening political crisis. Since parliament’s impeachment vote against Yoon passed on Dec. 14 after his short-lived...
Russia’s VTB buys nationalised agriculture firm
Date: December 26, 2024
\MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s second-largest lender, VTB, has acquired an agricultural company in southern Russia, which was nationalised after its former owners were accused of corruption and fled Russia, the bank said in a statement on Thursday. The company, now called Agrocomplex Labinski, was nationalised in 2023 after an arrest warrant was issued for its...
BYD contractor denies ‘slavery-like conditions’ claims by Brazilian authorities
Date: December 26, 2024
SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) -Jinjiang Group, a contractor for Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD, said on Thursday Brazilian authorities’ portrayal of their employees as “enslaved” was inconsistent with the facts and that there were translation misunderstandings. Brazilian labor authorities had on Wednesday said they found 163 Chinese nationals working in “slavery-like conditions” at a construction site for...
Pope opens special ‘Holy Door’ for Catholic Jubilee at Rome prison
Date: December 26, 2024
By Joshua McElwee ROME (Reuters) – Pope Francis made a visit on Thursday to one of the largest prison complexes in Italy, opening a special “Holy Door” for the 2025 Catholic Holy Year, in what the Vatican said was the first such action by a Catholic pontiff. Speaking to hundreds of inmates, guards and staff...
Kazakhstan’s senate chief: cause of Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash unknown for now
Date: December 26, 2024
ASTANA (Reuters) – Kazakhstan’s senate chairman said on Thursday that the cause of the Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash was still unknown. “None of these countries – neither Azerbaijan, Russia nor Kazakhstan – is interested in hiding information. All information will be made available to the public,” Ashimbayev Maulen said. An Embraer passenger jet crashed near...
China, Japan foreign ministers agree visit, security dialogue
Date: December 26, 2024
By Liz Lee and Sakura Murakami BEIJING/TOKYO (Reuters) -Talks between China and Japan’s foreign ministers in Beijing have paved way for Japan to host China’s foreign affairs chief next year, and mutual agreement to hold a security dialogue as soon as possible, Japan said on Wednesday. No details were given for when the events will...