Beleaguered Yoon Suk Yeol has become South Korea’s first sitting president to be arrested after investigators scaled barricades and cut through barbed wire to take him into custody. Yoon, 64, is being investigated on charges of insurrection for a failed martial law order on 3 December that plunged the country into turmoil. He has also been impeached by parliament and suspended – but will only be removed from office if…

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk, claiming that his 2022 purchase of Twitter shares violated securities laws. The SEC’s court filing, published Tuesday, asserts that Musk failed to submit a required beneficial ownership report after acquiring more than five per cent of Twitter’s common stock in March 2022. The SEC argues that Musk’s failure to file the report on time allowed him…

Spanish police have announced the arrest of three “extremely dangerous” suspected mafia members wanted in Italy for crimes, including attempted murder, weapons trafficking and money laundering. A police statement on Tuesday said the suspects were “one of the heads of a dangerous family clan” of the Neapolitan Camorra, his son, and his son-in-law, without naming the three. They were recently detained in the southern Spanish coastal town of Marbella, where…

Mediators have handed Israel and Hamas the final draft of a deal that could finally bring the 15-month-long Gaza war to a close — with US officials saying a ceasefire was closer than it’s ever been after a midnight breakthrough in negotiations. An official briefed on the talks — which have been attended by envoys of both US President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump — told Reuters that Qatar…

Ukraine struck several targets deep inside Russia on Tuesday in what it says is its “most massive” attack of the war so far. Ammunition depots and chemical plants were hit across several regions, some of which were hundreds of kilometres from the border, according to the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces. Sources in Ukraine’s SBU intelligence agency told the BBC the overnight attack was a “painful blow” to Russia’s…

Nobel Peace Prize winner, Malala Yousafzai has urged Muslim leaders to challenge the Taliban government in Afghanistan and its repressive policies for girls and women. “Simply put, the Taliban in Afghanistan do not see women as human beings,” she told an international summit hosted by Pakistan on girls education in Islamic countries. Ms Yousafzai told Muslim leaders there was “nothing Islamic” about the Taliban’s policies which include preventing girls and…

Six more bodies have been recovered from an illegal gold mine in South Africa, where scores of people have reportedly died underground since authorities tried to force them out and seal the mine in November, BBC News reported. Eight people were rescued alive on Tuesday and 26 were recovered on Monday, the BBC reported. Over 100 people who were illegally mining in the abandoned mine have reportedly died since the…

President Joe Biden announced Tuesday that two of the Navy’s future aircraft carriers will be named after former commanders-in-chief, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. “The future USS William J. Clinton (CVN 82) and the future USS George W. Bush (CVN 83) will begin construction in the years ahead,” Biden said in a statement issued just a week before he is replaced in office by Donald Trump. “When complete, they…

North Korean soldiers sent to bolster Russia’s forces are resorting to extreme measures. One recently detonated a grenade and blew himself up to avoid getting captured by Ukrainian troops. For weeks, Ukrainian troops have been fighting against an unfamiliar enemy —North Korean soldiers sent to bolster Russia’s forces on the battlefield. More worryingly, North Korean soldiers have posed new challenges for Ukraine by blowing themselves up before getting captured. According…

….Says it’s pure fiction ByteDance, the parent company of social media platform TikTok, has denied reports on the potential sale of the app to billionaire and Tesla boss, Elon Musk to continue its operations amid a possible ban by the US government. Bloomberg News and The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday that Chinese officials have discussed allowing the sale to the Tesla and SpaceX CEO to avoid a ban…

Former Labour MP, Ivor Caplin, who represented Hove from 1997 to 2005, was arrested on Sunday, January 12, 2025, in Brighton following a sting operation conducted by the activist group, Stop Stings. The group alleges that Caplin, aged 66, believed he was arranging to meet a 15-year-old boy, a setup orchestrated by the group posing as the underage individual. Footage of the encounter was live-streamed on Facebook, showing Caplin at…

The Kremlin said on Monday that the latest round of US sanctions on the Russian energy sector risked destabilizing global markets, and Moscow would do everything possible to minimize their impact. “It is clear that the United States will continue to try to undermine the positions of our companies in non-competitive ways, but we expect that we will be able to counteract this,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. “At the…