Sean Middleton

South Korean ex-president Park Geun-hye has been sentenced to 20 years in prison on appeal, South Korean news agency Yonhap reports. Park was forced to resign in 2017 due to a corruption scandal and was previously sentenced to 30…

Boeing has settled 90 percent of the lawsuits filed by relatives of victims of the plane crash with a Boeing 737 MAX from Indonesian airline Lion Air. The aircraft manufacturer has not disclosed how much the victims' families will…

The death toll from the coronavirus in India has passed 20,000. The country reported 467 new deaths on Tuesday, bringing the number to 20,160. It also registered 22,252 new chains, bringing the total to 719,665. The number of new…

The Kremlin and the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church have warned Turkey about plans to turn the former Hagia Sophia Cathedral in Istanbul, now a museum, into a mosque again. The highest judges in Turkey will have to make a…

The Japanese government wants to cancel a state visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping to Japan as a result of the controversial Hong Kong national security law that China passed this week. The Liberal Democratic Party of Prime…

Ronnie Brunswijk, the new president of the Surinamese parliament, is infected with the coronavirus and hospitalized. Surinamese media reported this. It was previously announced that three other politicians of the intended new…

The Prime Ministers of Spain and Portugal officially reopened their joint border for all travellers on Wednesday after a three-month shutdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. In the presence of Spanish King Felipe and…

Confrontations between Kurds and ultra-nationalist Turks at demonstrations in Vienna put pressure on relations between Austria and Turkey. Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz on Tuesday accused Turkey of "sowing dissatisfaction."…

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has called on Israel not to annex occupied Palestinian territories. "Annexation is illegal. Full stop," said Michelle Bachelet in a statement. "Whether it be 30 percent of the…

A British teenager who threw a six-year-old French boy from the tenth floor of London's Tate Modern museum has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. Jonty Bravery was 17 when he planned and executed his act last August. He was…