A South Korean marine colonel who faced insubordination and defamation charges after accusing President Yoon Suk Yeol of whitewashing his investigation into a marine’s death was acquitted by a court-martial on Thursday. A public uproar over the case of the colonel, Park Jung-hun, rocked South Korea for months last year, prompting opposition lawmakers to put forward a bill to appoint …
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There’s support for all the essential HTTP operations: MapGet, MapPut, MapPost, and MapDelete. These will allow you to build most of the common API functions and manage the payloads for your code. Client applications and views will need to implement the HTTP operation created by the mapping. More complex operations can use the MapMethods to support other HTTP operations. There’s …
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A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury’s north pole. The European and Japanese robotic explorer swooped as close as 183 miles above Mercury’s night side before passing directly over the planet’s north pole. The European Space Agency released the stunning snapshots on Thursday, showing the permanently shadowed craters at the top of our …
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The two largest fires burning in Los Angeles remain “0%” contained on Thursday despite firefighting operations, officials said, as they also vowed to tackle looting of evacuated homes.
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After pouring at least $260 million to help get Donald Trump re-elected U.S. President, and being handsomely rewarded with a job to co-lead a new government department, the world’s richest man is now training his eyes on Europe. In the U.K., Musk has launched a barrage of attacks at the center-left British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, calling for him to …
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Brussels reportedly fears the AfD party could gain an “unfair advantage” ahead of next month’s snap elections The EU Commission plans to deploy a large team of experts and officials to monitor Elon Musk’s upcoming live interview with the co-chair of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, Alice Weidel, Politico reported on Thursday. The event, which is scheduled for …
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Credit: Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD) Opinion by Ben Phillips (bangkok, thailand) Thursday, January 09, 2025 Inter Press Service BANGKOK, Thailand, Jan 09 (IPS) – The debt disaster is back. Indeed, the aid agency Cafod reports that developing countries today face “the most acute debt crisis in history”. At least 54 countries are in a debt crisis – …
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At least five people have been killed and thousands of homes have been gutted in wildfires that have ravaged multiple parts of Los Angeles in California – the most populous state of the United States. More than 130,000 residents in different neighbourhoods of Los Angeles city have been ordered to evacuate as the fires, which erupted on Tuesday, continue to …
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Lebanon’s parliament has elected the country’s army chief as president, ending a power vacuum that has lasted more than two years. Joseph Aoun’s candidacy was backed by several political parties, as well as the US, France and Saudi Arabia. A rival backed by the Hezbollah militia withdrew on Wednesday and endorsed the commander. The presidency is a mainly ceremonial role …
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Lebanon’s fractured Parliament overcame more than two years of gridlock on Thursday to choose a new president, a critical step toward bringing stability to a country attempting to recover from economic catastrophe and a devastating war. Lawmakers elected Gen. Joseph Aoun, the commander of the Lebanese military, by an overwhelming majority in the second round of voting, after he failed …
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