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SEOUL, June 12 (Yonhap) -- The unification ministry vowed Friday to firmly establish peace on the Korean Peninsula after a Seoul court sentenced former President Yoon Suk Yeol to 30 years in prison for ordering drone flights into North Korea to provoke it and lay the groundwork for his martial law bid in 2024.
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol and his former defense minister were sentenced to 30 years in prison Friday in a case alleging Yoon ordered drone flights over Pyongyang in 2024 to heighten tensions with North Korea and justify declaring martial law at home.
Former Taliban commander Haji Najibullah, 50, has been sentenced to 42 years in prison and five years of supervised release on terrorism charges, the United States Department of Justice said on Tuesday.
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SEOUL, June 12 (Yonhap) -- Authorities have arrested a Vietnamese couple over allegations that they illegally translated and distributed Korean digital comics, known as webtoons, worldwide, South Korea's culture ministry announced Friday.
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Victim suffered injuries to his head and shoulders while carrying out inspection on amusement ride
Victim suffered injuries to his head and shoulders while carrying out inspection on amusement ride
MINNEAPOLIS — A Minnesota man who pleaded guilty Thursday to killing a top Democratic lawmaker and her husband admitted he spent months identifying elected officials to target and stalked them before driving to their homes in the middle of the night, dressed as a police officer, with the intention of killing them.
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Tyler Robinson, who is accused of fatally shooting Charlie Kirk, appears during a hearing in Fourth District Court in Provo, Utah, on Dec. 11, 2025. (Rick Egan/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP, Pool, File)
Supreme court rejects Alabama’s request to execute a prisoner, setting up showdown over method decried by experts as brutal
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South Korea’s ex-President Yoon Suk Yeol has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for sending military drones into North Korea, a move prosecutors argued was aimed at creating a pretext for his disastrous martial law declaration in 2024.
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine National Police (PNP) on Friday said it was monitoring four rallies within Metro Manila in celebration of the country's 128th Independence Day.
A South Korean court has sentenced former President Yoon Suk Yeol to 30 years in jail for sending drones into North Korea.
South Korea’s former president was given a life sentence in February for leading an insurrection with his 2024 martial law declaration
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On June 12, 1966, floods and landslides in Hong Kong killed 64 people, including two SCMP editors, with over 7,000 people losing their homes
On June 12, 1966, floods and landslides in Hong Kong killed 64 people, including two SCMP editors, with over 7,000 people losing their homes
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South Korea’s ousted former President Yoon Suk Yeol arrives to attend his trial at the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul, South Korea, May 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, Pool, File)
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Court finds operation aimed at provoking Pyongyang to build case for martial law
Yoon is already serving a life sentence for insurrection over his short-lived martial law decree in 2024
Yoon is already serving a life sentence for insurrection over his short-lived martial law decree in 2024
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A Seoul court on Friday sentenced former President Yoon Suk Yeol to 30 years in prison on charges of ordering drone infiltrations into North Korea in an attempt to heighten cross-border tensions and create a basis for his martial law declaration in December 2024.
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Dozens of people have been arrested in a cocaine crackdown in Brisbane’s party precinct.
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A Korean American woman in Georgia was shot and killed by her husband in an apparent murder-suicide while the couple’s three children were at home, according to local media reports Friday.
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MANILA, Philippines — Former Ilocos Sur governor Luis “Chavit” Singson described his arrest over a cyber libel case as a “badge of honor,” while denying that he was arrested at his residence and saying he voluntarily went to the police station to post bail.
BELFAST — Police arrested 16 people during a second night of disorder in Northern Ireland sparked by a brutal Belfast stabbing, but there were no new clashes on Thursday evening.
Firefighters’ union boss Peter Marshall can be named as the person seeking to suppress a report by the state’s corruption watchdog, after the Court of Appeal knocked back a push to keep his identity secret.
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SEOUL, June 12 (Yonhap) -- North Korea's parliament has elected new judges of the country's highest court at a plenary meeting of its standing committee, state media reported Friday.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents standoff against demonstrators as tear gas fills the air outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs building during a protest, June 14, 2025, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)
FILE- Alvin Campbell Jr. sits at the defense table during his sexual assault trial, in Suffolk Superior Court, in Boston, May 18, 2026. (Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via AP, Pool, File)
Polish officials from the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party have urged the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia to rename a street honoring Stepan Bandera, the nationalist leader whose movement was responsible for the massacre of more than 100,000 Poles during World War II.
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