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Lee Im-jae, a former district chief, is the most senior official to be convicted in connection with the 2022 disaster that killed nearly 160 Halloween partygoers. A Seoul court sentenced…
After seeing prices decline for years, Chinese officials have made a burst of policy changes aimed at making easier to buy homes. During China’s decades-long housing boom, demand for apartments…
Stocks dropped after Japan’s governing party chose Shigeru Ishiba, a critic of the country’s longstanding ultralow interest rates, as its leader. Stocks in Japan fell sharply after the country’s governing…
Plus, we retraced one of Mayor Eric Adams’s lavish trips to Istanbul. Israel killed Hezbollah’s leader and struck Yemen Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed on Friday near Beirut, Lebanon,…
The mountainous country is experiencing more extreme weather driven by climate change, including melting glaciers that add to the frequency and severity of flooding. At least 170 people have died…
Disasters in the small Himalayan nation have become more frequent as the effects of climate change increase. At least 66 people have died and 69 were missing in Nepal after…
The Global Profile Park Chae-so was so successful in infiltrating the North that Kim Jong-il, the enigmatic ruler, once gifted him blueberry wine. So why was the celebrated undercover agent…
Economic stimulus moves triggered a broad rally in trading in Shanghai and Shenzhen. CSI 300 Index Source: FactSet By The New York Times 阅读简体中文版閱讀繁體中文版 An abrupt move by China’s leaders…
Shigeru Ishiba, a former defense minister more popular with the rank and file than with his lawmaker colleagues, had sought his party leadership four times before. The elite power brokers…
Three men were the first to be convicted under the city’s recently expanded national security law, which has greatly curtailed political speech. Wearing a T-shirt with a protest slogan. Scrawling…