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Who Is Han Duck-Soo, South Korea’s Acting President After Yoon Impeachment?
Date: December 14, 2024
By Joyce Lee SEOUL (Reuters) – Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, who became South Korea’s acting president after Saturday’s impeachment of Yoon Suk Yeol, is a career technocrat whose wide-ranging experience and reputation for rationality could serve him well in his latest role. With parliament’s impeachment vote against Yoon passed after his short-lived attempt to impose...
South Korea’s Yoon Impeached: Embittered Survivor Buckles Under Martial Law Backlash
Date: December 14, 2024
By Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol faces the greatest threat to his brief but chequered political career, with his fate in the hands of judges after some of his allies turned from him and voted to impeach him on Saturday for allegedly leading an insurrection. Regarded as a tough...
Macron, Defying Calls to Resign, Struggles on in Search for Stable French Government
Date: December 6, 2024
By Benoit Van Overstraeten PARIS (Reuters) – President Emmanuel Macron on Friday began his latest search for a new prime minister to lead France’s unruly parliament, after rejecting demands he quit to end a crisis he said was driven by the far right and extreme left’s “anti-republican front.” In a prime time address on Thursday,...
Prime Minister Barnier to Resign as France’s Political Crisis Deepens
Date: December 5, 2024
By Bertrand Boucey and Sudip Kar-Gupta PARIS (Reuters) -French Prime Minister Michel Barnier will resign on Thursday after far-right and leftist lawmakers voted to topple his government, plunging the euro zone’s second-largest economy deeper into political crisis. Barnier, a veteran politician who was formerly the European Union’s Brexit negotiator, will be the shortest-serving prime minister...
From Decree to Defeat: Inside South Korea’s Failed Martial Law Attempt
Date: December 4, 2024
By Hyonhee Shin, Cynthia Kim, Ju-min Park and Hyunjoo Jin SEOUL (Reuters) – At his confirmation hearing three months ago, South Korea’s defence minister Kim Yong-hyun rejected accusations from the opposition that he wanted to impose martial law. It was, the conservative hardliner said, political propaganda. When tensions between President Yoon Suk Yeol and his...
How to Impeach a South Korean President
Date: December 4, 2024
SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is facing the threat of impeachment, with opposition lawmakers accusing him of violating his constitutional duty and committing a crime akin to treason when he declared martial law on Tuesday. Yoon lifted the martial law declaration before dawn on Wednesday, just hours after opposition-controlled parliament rejected his...