“Ukraine needs more air defense systems,” Ukraine’s Defense Ministry said. December 20, 2024, 3:24 AM LONDON — A Russian missile strike killed one person and wounded nine others early on Friday morning, Ukrainian officials said, an attack that U.S. Ambassador Bridget A. Brink described as “brutal.” “Early this morning Russia launched a ballistic missile attack against the capital, killing a civilian and resulting in debris and fires around the city,” Brink said in a statement on social media. Brink added that the United States and its partners were “surging security assistance and energy support” to the country “in response to these brutal attacks.” A view shows buildings damaged during a Russian missile strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Dec. 20, 2024. State Emergency Service Of Ukraine via
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South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s former defense minister was arrested. December 11, 2024, 4:13 AM SEOUL — South Korean police raided South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s office as a part of the ongoing investigation into the martial law declaration on Dec. 3, Yonhap, South Korean state media, reported Wednesday. The South Korean National Police Agency’s National Investigation Headquarters Emergency Martial Special Consecution Team entered “the seizure and search,” of the President’s office Wednesday morning local time, Yonhap reported. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol answers a reporter’s question during a press conference at the Presidential Office in Seoul, Nov. 7, 2024. Kim Hong-ji/Reuters South Korean Police on Wednesday morning also arrested the South Korean National Police Commissioner Cho Ji Ho and the Seoul Police Chief Kim Bong Sik
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LONDON — A suspicious package was discovered outside the United States embassy in London on Friday morning, police said. The London Metropolitan Police immediately closed Ponton Road outside of the embassy in “an abundance of caution,” according to their statement, before they destroyed it in a controlled explosion. “We’re aware of speculation online about an incident in the vicinity of the US Embassy in Nine Elms,” the Met Police said. “Cordons are in place in the area as a precaution while officers investigate a suspect package.” Authorities updated the situation approximately an hour later after reports of a “loud bang” began circulating online. Firefighters stand near the U.S. Embassy, amid ongoing investigation following an incident in London, Britain, November 22, 2024. REUTERS/Mina Kim Mina Kim/Reuters “We can confirm that the
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LONDON — The U.S. Embassy in Kyiv temporarily closed its doors on Wednesday out of “an abundance of caution,” as it warned that a potentially “significant” air strike may be coming. “The U.S. Embassy recommends U.S. citizens be prepared to immediately shelter in the event an air alert is announced,” the embassy said in an update. A picture shows a view of the US embassy in Kyiv on May 18, 2022, as the embassy reopens after closing it for three months due to the Russian invasion. Sergei Supinsky/AFP via Getty Images The embassy said it had received “specific” information about the potential strike on Nov. 20. The warning arrived amid fears that the war could escalate, a day after Ukraine’s military first launched U.S.-made long-range ATACMS missiles toward targets within
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LONDON — The showdown between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump will in many ways be a choice between foreign policy continuity and change. Harris has largely stuck to President Joe Biden’s world agenda, one in which the outgoing leader sought to revive traditional American statesmanship after four turbulent years of Trump. Biden’s time in office, though, has seen a major deterioration in global stability. The next president will come to power in the midst of two major wars — one in Europe and one in the Middle East — in which the U.S. is deeply involved. Trump is bidding for a second term with twin promises of “America first” with “peace through strength,” accusing Biden, Harris and many other leaders of facilitating global instability through weakness
STOCKHOLM — South Korean author Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for a poetic and unsettling body of work that the Nobel committee said “confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” A slow-burning literary success who was won multiple awards in Korea and Europe, Han is the first Asian woman and the first South Korean writer to win the Nobel literature prize. Nobel committee chairman Anders Olsson praised Han’s “physical empathy for the vulnerable, often female lives” of her characters, in novels such as “The Vegetarian” and “Human Acts.” “She has a unique awareness of the connections between body and soul, the living and the dead,” Olsson said. Nobel literature committee member Anna-Karin Palm said Han writes “intense lyrical prose that is both