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In Yoon’s impeachment trial, the Constitutional Court is expected to decide in coming days whether to reinstate him or remove him from office.Yoon, the first South Korean president to be arrested while in office, has been in custody since Jan 15.On Saturday, some 38,000 Yoon supporters rallied in Seoul, while 1,500 people demonstrated against him, Yonhap news agency reported, citing unofficial police estimates.

Ski resorts in Japan are prized for having some of the deepest, lightest powder around. A winter of exceptionally heavy snow — some areas had more than 12 feet of snowpack this week — should be a skier or snowboarder’s dream.The ski terrain in Japan this winter is “super big and super gnarly,” the Austrian professional skier Tao Kreibich, 27, said in a video about a recent backcountry excursion in the country. “You can do some crazy stuff.”Yes, but …While many of Japan’s 500 or so ski areas are having a banner season, giant snowdrifts have led to challenges that…

In early 2017, American intelligence agencies delivered an unequivocal judgment about why President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia had ordered a sprawling effort to sabotage the recent American presidential election.Mr. Putin wanted to cripple the faith Americans have in their own elections, they found, and to undermine a United States-led “liberal world order” that the Russians see as a threat to their security. As a way to achieve this goal, the assessment found, Russia worked to help Donald J. Trump win the election.Eight years later, Mr. Trump sat in the Oval Office for a blustery meeting with President Voldymyr Zelensky…

For the last four years, The Athletic has polled some of the top soccer executives around the league for their thoughts and predictions ahead of a season. The answers have proved it’s no easy task to foresee what’s going to happen next in MLS.Last year, exactly zero of the 30 executives polled tipped the LA Galaxy to win MLS Cup. Only three backed Inter Miami to take the Supporters’ Shield.On the flip side of things, those same executives correctly picked that Thiago Almada and Caleb Wiley would be the next two MLS players to make big moves abroad. And nine…

The sprawling Army base in North Carolina had long been named for Braxton Bragg, an incompetent Confederate general who owned enslaved people.Then in 2020, Congress moved to strip the base of its name, mandating a new one. The base was renamed Fort Liberty as part of the U.S. military’s examination of its history with race. But Mr. Trump and other conservatives raged against the changes, arguing that “wokeness” was softening the military and wiping away important elements of American tradition and heritage.President Trump campaigned on a promise to restore the old name, and his pledge was brought to fruition on…

7NEWS’ live coverage has kicked off as results roll in for WA’s 2025 State election. WATCH IT AS IT HAPPENS HERE.

Sunil Chhetri returns to football at 40 – a year after retiring – to boost India’s Asia Cup qualification hopes.Indian football legend Sunil Chhetri will return to the national team aged 40 in an unexpected reversal of his decision to hang up his boots last year. The former captain, the fourth-highest men’s international goalscorer of all time, played his last match for India in June 2024 in a World Cup qualifier. Chhetri said last year that “instinct” told him the match against Kuwait should be his last and he bowed out in front of nearly 59,000 fans in Kolkata. But…

The American dream is “surging” and “America is back,” according to President Donald Trump.Trump launched the week telling Americans that his administration would work to take “America’s destiny into our own hands” and vowed that “this will be our greatest era” during a joint address to Congress Tuesday. Additionally, Trump shared in the address that Ukraine was prepared to sign off on a rare-earth minerals deal and continue peace negotiations to end the war with Russia after talks came to a fiery halt Feb. 28. Trump also disclosed that his administration caught the terrorist behind the 2021 Afghanistan attack that resulted…

A former priest with a child molestation conviction who was stripped of his American citizenship has been sentenced to a year in prison, authorities said Thursday. Antonio Velez-Lopez, a 69-year-old Colombian citizen, was handed jail time for passport fraud and ordered to be deported after serving his time, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said. “Child molesters like Velez who lied about their crimes to become citizens thought they could hide behind those who earned what they stole,” said ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations New Orleans acting Field Office Director Scott Ladwig. “They thought ICE would have to search through thousands of…

A 25-year-old Byford man has been charged with driving under the influence of alcohol in Port Hedland after allegedly blowing a blood alcohol level more than five times the legal limit.