SEOUL Former South Korean President Park Geun-hye left prosecutors’ offices early on Wednesday after being questioned in an investigation into a corruption scandal that brought an early end to her political career. Park did not respond to reporters’ questions as she emerged from the building after nearly 22 hours and got into a waiting car to be driven to her private home in the capital, Seoul. Prosecutors […]
Iona Craig, who reported on the aftermath of the botched Navy SEAL raid in Yemen for The Intercept from Yeman, did so with the help of the Pulitzer Center. Iona Craig. Grants from the Pulitzer Center go a long way for international journalists who eke out a difficult existence covering tough stories from dangerous places. The details of her recent Yemen experience should give pause to most […]
By Rosalba O’Brien | SANTIAGO SANTIAGO Sebastian Pinera, who was Chile’s president from 2010 to 2014, officially declared on Tuesday his intention to seek the office again this year, betting that widespread disillusion with the governing coalition will help him win over voters. The center-right Pinera, who ranks 745th on the Forbes list of the world’s richest billionaires, is bidding for the nomination of the ‘Chile Vamos’ […]
SEOUL A North Korean missile launch failed on Wednesday, with the rocket exploding within seconds, the U.S. military said, the latest in a series of North Korean weapons tests to rattle its neighbours and raise tension in the region. South Korea said the apparent test launch of one missile by nuclear-capable North Korea, from the city of Wonsan on its east coast, had failed. South Korea’s defence […]
WASHINGTON Republicans considering whether or not to back U.S. President Donald Trump’s healthcare reforms in a crucial House of Representatives vote this week face a painful choice. If they vote against, they could face the wrath of a vengeful and combative president. If they vote for it, they risk retribution from the billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch and other powerful right-wing players whose money can be […]
By Yawen Chen and Ryan Woo | BEIJING BEIJING Business sentiment at Asia’s top companies rose to its highest in almost two years in the first quarter of 2017, buoyed by positive economic signs from the United States and China that underpinned improved global demand, a Thomson Reuters/INSEAD survey showed. The Thomson Reuters/INSEAD Asian Business Sentiment Index .TRIABS RACSI, representing the six-month outlook of 96 firms, rebounded […]
Stock markets suffered their worst falls since the election of Donald Trump as Wall Street worries about the prospects for the US president’s pro-business agenda triggered a rush for financial havens. US markets led the declines, with the benchmark S&P 500 index tumbling 1.2 per cent — and breaking a run of 109 trading days without a drop of 1 per cent or more. The Dow Jones […]
WASHINGTON — The United States military has begun formally investigating an American airstrike in Syria that officials said targeted dozens of Qaeda operatives at a meeting place that activists and local residents maintain was part of a religious complex where 49 civilians were killed. United States Central Command has begun two investigations: one to determine whether there is credible evidence that civilians were killed in the strike, […]
Wednesday 02:35 GMT Overview Asian equities sank in the wake of the S&P 500’s biggest fall in more than five months as investors fretted that US President Donald Trump’s pro-growth policies could take longer than expected to come to fruition. Hot topic The S&P 500 closed down 1.2 per cent on Tuesday, dragged lower by financial stocks. It was the first time since October 11 that the […]
SIBU: Former deputy chief minister and ex-SUPP president Tan Sri Dr Wong Soon Kai (pic) passed away at 4am Wednesday after a long illness. He was 90. This was confirmed by Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) president Datuk Dr Sim Kui Hian in his Facebook posting, saying they were deeply saddened by the news of Wong’s passing. Wong, who was the party’s honourary party president and third […]
By Steve Holland | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON President Donald Trump argued on Tuesday that his 60 days in office have been a successful keeping of his campaign promises as he attempted to turn the page from a variety of controversies that have bedevilled his White House tenure. In a speech before the National Republican Congressional Committee, Trump sprinkled his remarks with jokes, mocked his critics and expressed optimism […]
SEOUL Salvage experts in South Korea could on Wednesday begin raising a ferry that sank nearly three years ago, killing more than 300 people, most of them children on a school trip, finally meeting the demands of mourning families. The ferry, the Sewol, was structurally unsound, overloaded and travelling too fast on a turn when it capsized and sank during a routine voyage on April 16, 2014. […]
SKOPJE Macedonia needs to rise above political feuding and form a government as soon as possible to unblock the Balkan country’s path to European Union membership, the EU said on Tuesday. An EU summit earlier this month placed the Balkans high on its agenda to show that despite lingering ethnic tensions and the scars from wars fought in the 1990s, the region is a priority for the […]
Andrew Puzder, who withdrew as nominee for U.S. Labor Secretary in the new Trump administration, is stepping down as chief executive of CKE Restaurants Holdings Inc in April, the parent of the Carl’s Jr and Hardee’s restaurant chains said on Tuesday. “I expressed my desire to have CKE plan for succession approximately a year ago,” said Puzder, 66, who has served as chief executive officer since 2000. […]
The net worth of U.S. President Donald Trump has slipped, dropping by $1 billion according to Forbes’ latest list of the richest people in 2017. Released on Monday, March 20, Forbes’ new world’s billionaires list estimates that Trump’s net worth has dropped from $4.5 billion in 2016 to $3.5 billion this year. This $1 billion decline also translates to a considerable drop down the list, as Trump […]
Neil Gorsuch was emerging largely unscathed from an all-day marathon of sometimes hostile questioning from senators weighing his nomination for a lifetime Supreme Court post. The Denver-based federal appellate judge clashed with Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island in an exchange over the role of money in American politics. And he came under fire from another Democrat, Senator Al Franken of Minnesota, for what the lawmaker called his “absurd” […]
WASHINGTON The United States pulled out of a regional hearing held on Tuesday to discuss the possible effects on human rights from executive orders signed by U.S. President Donald Trump targeting immigrants and refugees, organizers said. The hearing by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), created by the 35-nation Organization of American States (OAS) to protect human rights in the Americas, follows concerns over the impact […]
Staffers at Independent Journal Review accused Benny Johnson of plagiarism in 2015, just a year after BuzzFeed fired him for copying dozens of other sites, according to a story published Tuesday by Business Insider. Johnson, who joined Independent Journal Review in 2015 after being let go from BuzzFeed for 41 examples of plagiarism, was accused by his colleagues in November 2015 of copying part of an article […]
Photo Christine Levinson, center, and her children Dan and Samantha speaking to reporters in New York in January. The family filed a lawsuit against Iran on Tuesday. Credit Seth Wenig/Associated Press The family of a part-time consultant for the C.I.A. who vanished a decade ago in Iran filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against that country, claiming that it had used a campaign of deception and lies to […]
ROME Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni said on Tuesday that he wants to send a strong message in favour of free trade when he welcomes U.S. President Donald Trump and other world leaders in Italy in May. Italy hosts the annual meeting of seven of the world’s biggest industrialised economies (G7) in the town of Taormina in Sicily on May 26-27. It will be Trump’s first scheduled […]
BERLIN Germany has rejected an unusually high number of requests for arms exports to Turkey in recent months due to mounting concerns about deteriorating human rights in the NATO country, the German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported on Tuesday. The report cited an economy ministry written response to a question by leftist lawmaker Jan van Aken, in which the ministry said it had rejected 11 requests for arms […]
Top executives from two of the world’s biggest investment banks have warned about the perils of Brexit, saying they have begun to firm up plans to uproot jobs from London ahead of Britain’s departure from the EU. Banks had been among the most vocal opponents of Brexit in the run-up to June’s referendum, donating millions of pounds to the Remain campaign and speaking openly about the thousands […]
BEIRUT Tahrir al-Sham, an alliance of Syrian jihadist rebel groups, said on Tuesday it was launching a new offensive near the city of Hama in the central part of western Syria. The group said on a social media feed that it had carried out two suicide car bomb attacks close to the town of Soran in the countryside north of Hama. “The battle of Hama has begun, […]
Tuesday 18:30 GMT What you need to know ● Sell off in financials drives S&P 500 down 1 per cent● Euro climbs to $1.08 and dollar index slips below 100● 10-year Treasury yield at lowest since start of month● Oil prices come under renewed pressure● Gold heads for fifth daily rise in a row——————- Overview A sharp and sudden sell-off for US financial stocks helped put the […]
