Another president impeached in South Korea; Russia accused of downing plane, and more
The World in Brief from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 28 December 2024
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| 0:50.2 | Lawmakers in South Korea voted to impeach the acting president, Han Dukso. |
| 0:56.5 | The former prime minister has held the office for less than two weeks after replacing Yun-Sukyol, |
| 1:00.9 | who had been forced out over his brief attempt to impose martial law. |
| 1:06.7 | The opposition accused Mr. Hahn of stalling the previous president's impeachment process. |
| 1:11.5 | Choi Sang-mok, the finance minister, is the next to fill the hot seat. |
| 1:19.2 | Azerbaijan Airlines paused more than half of its flights to Russia, following reports that Russian air defenses were to blame for a deadly crash of one of its passenger planes |
| 1:24.6 | in Kazakhstan on Wednesday. |
| 1:27.2 | Azerbaijani officials have reportedly found that the flight was struck by Russian anti-aircraft |
| 1:32.7 | fire. Russia warned against such hypotheses. At least 38 of the 67 people on board died. |
| 1:43.3 | NATO will step up its military presence in the Baltic Sea following a suspected |
| 1:48.6 | act of sabotage that damaged undersea power and telecommunications cables running between Finland and |
| 1:55.5 | Estonia. Estonia's Navy said it would guard the remaining power cable. Sweden's Coast Guard also said it would increase surveillance of ships. |
| 2:05.1 | Earlier, Finland seized a tanker carrying embargoed Russian oil to investigate its involvement. |
| 2:13.5 | Israeli soldiers ordered some 350 patients and staff to evacuate from Kamal-Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza |
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