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Prime Minister Han Duck-soo of South Korea was restored to office as acting president​ on Monday, after the country’s Constitutional Court overturned his impeachment by the National Assembly.Mr. Han had served as South Korea’s acting president after ​the Assembly impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol on Dec. 14​, suspending Mr. Yoon from office in connection with his failed attempt to place his country under martial law. Mr. Han had served as acting president for fewer than two weeks when the Assembly impeached him as well on Dec. 27, adding to the political uncertainty in South Korea, a key ally of the…

Venezuela will once again accept repatriation flights from the United States carrying its deported nationals after reaching an agreement with the U.S., a Venezuelan official said on social media Saturday.Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro suspended flights on March 8, after the U.S. Treasury Department announced the withdrawal of Chevron’s license to export Venezuelan oil.”We have agreed with the U.S. government to resume the repatriation of Venezuelan migrants with an initial flight tomorrow, Sunday,” said Jorge Rodríguez, president of Venezuela’s Assembly and Maduro’s chief negotiator with the U.S.Venezuela accepted the deal to guarantee the “the return of our compatriots to their nation…

Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: HealthEquity — Shares of the health-focused fintech company plunged 15% following weaker-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings. HealthEquity posted non-GAAP earnings per share of 69 cents on revenue of $311.8 million. Analysts polled by FactSet expected earnings of 72 cents per share on revenue of $305.8 million. General Mills — Shares lost more than 3% after General Mills lowered its full-year guidance and reported a top-line miss for the third quarter. The processed food company now sees organic net sales falling between 1.5% to 2% in the full year, versus previous calls for flat…

Tiger Woods confirmed his relationship status on Sunday in a social media post. He’s clearly taken.Woods announced his relationship with Vanessa Trump on X and Instagram and shared some photos of the two together cozying next to each other. Trump is President Donald Trump’s former daughter-in-law. She was married to Donald Trump Jr. until 2018. Tiger Woods arrives to the course during the final round of The Genesis Invitational 2025 at Torrey Pines Golf Course on February 16, 2025, in La Jolla, California. (Michael Owens/Getty Images)”Love is in the air and life is better with you by my side! We look…

The 2025 World Happiness Report was recently released this month – revealing that the U.S. not only trails behind other countries in North America, but several European countries as well.The study, which is published every year by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford, typically ranks Nordic countries highly. The theme of this year’s report is the “impact of caring and sharing on people’s happiness,” according to the study.Several factors, including inequality, generosity, freedom, life expectancy and perceptions of corruption, all contribute to the rankings – but one question related to happiness is weighed heavily by researchers.”Our global…

Ford has filed to protect the Mach 4 nameplate in Australia, which could be used for a sedan version of the Mustang.

Marty Callner, a pioneering director of comedy specials who set the template for the genre at HBO in the 1970s before going on to make music videos infused with humor during the early heyday of MTV, died on March 17 at his home in Malibu, Calif. He was 78.His son Jazz Callner said the cause was not yet known.Over a half-century, Mr. Callner worked with some of the biggest names in popular culture, including Jerry Seinfeld, Madonna, Robin Williams, George Carlin, the Rolling Stones and Chris Rock.Mr. Callner, who preferred to stay in the background but was far from shy,…

Google agreed to buy Wiz, a fast-growing cybersecurity start-up, for $32 billion in the company’s biggest push to strengthen its cloud-computing business and expand beyond the search engine and consumer internet services that made it a household name.The all-cash deal, announced on Tuesday, would be Google’s largest, easily surpassing its $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility in 2012.With the deal, Google would get a five-year-old company that most consumers are unfamiliar with but that a growing number of businesses rely on to protect their cloud applications. The Silicon Valley giant worked for months last year to forge a deal for…

Murphy, the beloved bald eagle who became a real foster father in 2023 after weeks spent incubating a rock, was found dead in his enclosure at a bird sanctuary in Missouri this month after a fierce storm pummeled the region on March 14, his keepers said last week.In a statement posted to social media, officials at the World Bird Sanctuary, a reserve in Valley Park, Mo., about 22 miles southwest of St. Louis, said that a full necropsy showed that Murphy, 33, had sustained “some form of trauma to his head.” The sanctuary said that it was unclear if the…

THE HAGUE: Former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte believes he has no case to answer at the International Criminal Court, his daughter said on Sunday (Mar 23), and is confident he has a strong legal argument. Sara Duterte, vice-president of the Philippines, told reporters her father was now in better health after appearing fatigued and dazed at his first hearing at the ICC. “He’s very confident about the legal arguments. He’s very confident … that what they did was wrong and there is no case to begin with,” Duterte told reporters. The 79-year-old former president faces a charge of crimes against humanity tied to his “war on…