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The IndependentSouth Korean president sits silently through 10 hours of questioning
Yoon Suk Yeol ‘simply refused to speak’
- Associated Press
South Korean authorities take impeached President Yoon to detention center after questioning
South Korea's impeached president, Yoon Suk Yeol, was sent to a detention center near Seoul on Wednesday night, after being questioned by anti-corruption officials who took him into custody over his imposition of martial law last month. Yoon was detained in a major law enforcement operation at the presidential compound earlier in the day. Yoon defiantly insisted that the country’s anti-corruption agency, which led the raid with police, didn’t have the authority to investigate his actions, but said he complied to prevent violence.
- CNN
Jill Biden expresses disappointment with Pelosi: ‘We were friends for 50 years’
First lady Jill Biden expressed her disappointment with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a new interview with The Washington Post, providing rare public comments about the fractured relationship between her husband, Joe Biden, and Pelosi following the president’s departure from the 2024 race.
- Twentytwo13
From corridors of power to prison cell, Najib Razak continues to hog the limelight in Malaysian politics
The fact that Datuk Seri Najib Razak remains a talking point today, despite his incarceration, is something many had not envisioned or even imagined. Not when he became the first Malaysian prime minister to be convicted in a court of law and to be sent to jail.
- Evening Standard
South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol arrested after dramatic hours-long standoff
Yoon Suk Yeol was brought into custody about three hours after hundreds of law enforcement officers entered the residential compound
- Evening Standard
Who is President Yoon Suk Yeol and his wife Kim Keon-hee, the political couple mired in scandal?
The impeached president has been arrested for declaring martial law after months of political scandal
- The Daily Beast
Trump Prods Vivek Ramaswamy to Go for JD Vance’s Former Job in Senate
Donald Trump has encouraged one-half of the controversial DOGE duo to gun for a Senate seat soon opening up in Ohio. Tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy is back in the mix of names being thrown around for the post that will be vacated by vice president-elect JD Vance, even after he took himself out of consideration in November to co-lead the Department of Government Efficiency with fellow billionaire Elon Musk, according to The Washington Post. Ohio Governor Mike DeWine met with Ramaswamy over the
- The Telegraph
South Korea president Yoon Suk Yeol arrested
Thousands of police put down their guns and marched into South Korea’s presidential compound on Wednesday to arrest the impeached head of state Yoon Suk Yeol.
- Reuters
Exclusive-Chinese tech firm founded by Huawei veterans in the FBI's crosshairs
The U.S. Commerce Department and FBI are both investigating a little-known telecoms hardware firm founded by senior Huawei veterans in China over possible security risks, sources and documents show. Founded in 2014, Baicells Technologies opened a North American business the next year in Wisconsin and has since provided telecoms equipment for 700 commercial mobile networks across every U.S. state, according to its website. The Commerce Department is investigating Baicells on national security grounds and has sent subpoenas to the company, four people said.
- The Independent
Biden warns of dangerous threat of new age of ‘robber barons’ in farewell presidential address
Biden attacks ‘tech industrial complex’ as he closes a half-century in public life with Oval Office speech
- Evening Standard
Joe Biden warns of dangers of ultra-rich 'oligarchy' running America in final Oval Office speech
President Biden sounds alarm over accumulation of power and wealth among small few as he prepares to hand over to Donald Trump
- The Daily Beast
‘Mistake’: Biden Torched by Own Aides For Not Buddying Up to Elon Musk
Many White House officials believe that Joe Biden missed an opportunity by not making a friend of Elon Musk, according to a report. While Biden in his Wednesday farewell address warned of the emergence of oligarchs in the United States, some of his aides told CNN that his decisions may contributed to the creation of one. Musk, who has emerged as one of Donald Trump’s most powerful allies, was previously a Democrat and did not back the now-president-elect until his near-miss assassination attempt
- The Independent
Ukraine-Russia war live: Starmer pledges ‘100-year partnership’ with country as Putin’s drones attack Kyiv
Sir Keir Starmer said 150 Sheffield-made artillery barrels would be sent to Ukraine in the coming weeks
- AFP News
S. Korea's Yoon: from rising star to historic arrest
South Korea's Yoon Suk Yeol rose from star prosecutor to the presidency in just a few years, but after a series of scandals and a bungled martial law decree, he's become the country's first-ever sitting president to be arrested. As well as the first sitting South Korean president to be arrested, he is the third to be impeached by parliamentary vote, and, if upheld by the Constitutional Court, would be the second to be removed from office.
- The Telegraph
Lammy backs plans for Chinese ‘super-embassy’ in London after Reeves’s Beijing visit
David Lammy and Yvette Cooper have thrown their weight behind Beijing’s bid to build a new “super-embassy” in London.
- HuffPost UK
Exclusive: Richard Holden Slapped Down After Calling For Removal Of Gender-Neutral Toilets The Tories Installed
The former Conservative chairman was given short shrift by a Labour minister.
- INSIDER
Biden warns of a 'tech industrial complex' and says America must lead the way on AI, not China, in farewell address
President Joe Biden warned that an oligarchy was taking shape in America during his farewell address on Wednesday.
- AFP News
South Korean President Yoon arrested over failed martial law bid
Impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was arrested on Wednesday over his failed martial law bid, after hundreds of anti-graft investigators and police raided his residence to end a weeks-long standoff.A first attempt on January 3 failed after a tense hours-long standoff between the guards and anti-graft investigators working with police.
- CNN
Biden makes last big move to protect US networks from hackers from China and elsewhere
President Joe Biden on Thursday signed an executive order that is his final stab at shoring up America’s cyber defenses after a damaging string of cyberattacks on federal networks that US officials have blamed on Chinese and Russian operatives.
- The Telegraph
Government shelves crackdown on Chinese influence at British universities
The Government is under fire for shelving plans to crack down on Chinese influence at British universities.