Posts by Cosmopolitan Canada
South Korea’s impeached Yoon again ignores summons to appear
South Korea’s suspended president, Yoon Suk Yeol, has for the third time in a row failed to heed a summons to appear before the country’s law enforcement authorities, the Yonhap news agency reported on Sunday. The Corruption Investigation Office said that Yoon had failed to appear at their offices south of Seoul when summonsed, Yonhap…
Read MoreReport: 120 dead after South Korea plane crash, two in hospital
At least 120 people died in a plane crash at Muan Airport in South Korea, the local fire brigade said, while two survivors have been brought to hospital, according to a report. A total of 181 people were on board the aircraft. The fire brigade fears that, apart from the two survivors, the remaining 179…
Read MoreMore than €615,000 donated after Christmas market attack
People have donated more than €615,000 ($641,000) for the victims and relatives of the attack on the Magdeburg Christmas market, the city administration has said. More than 5,600 donations had been made to the cause so far, it added. On December 20, a man – a doctor originally from Saudi Arabia who came to Germany…
Read MorePlane veers off airport runway in South Korea and crashes, killing at least 23: report
A Jeju Air flight drove off the runway in South Korea and collided with a fence, leaving at least 23 passengers killed, the Yonhap news agency reported. The agency attributed the devastating crash to malfunctioning landing gear. Jeju Air, a low-cost airline in South Korea, was carrying 175 passengers and six crew members in the…
Read MoreWhite House: Russia, North Korea treating troops as ‘expendable’ in conflict with Ukraine
White House National Security communications adviser John Kirby said Russia was treating North Korean troops as “expendable” by sending them on impractical ground operations in its war against Ukraine. “It is clear that Russian and North Korean military leaders are treating these troops as expendable and ordering them on hopeless assaults against Ukrainian defenses,” Kirby…
Read MoreDeseret News archives: Earthquake-tsunami whammy struck Italy in 1908, Indonesia in 2004
A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Dec. 28, 1908, a major earthquake followed by a tsunami devastated the Italian cities of Messina and Reggio Calabria, killing at least 70,000 people. Per reports, the earthquake registered 7.1 on the magnitude scale in the Strait of Messina, which separates…
Read MoreRussia’s Gazprom ends deliveries to Moldova after Ukraine transit ban
The Russian gas company Gazprom on Saturday said it will no longer supply natural gas to Moldova in the new year, blaming the country’s alleged debts. Gazprom said the country’s gas company Moldovagaz “regularly fails to fulfil its payment obligations under the existing contract, which constitutes a material breach of the terms.” The Moldovan government…
Read MoreWHO chief ‘escaped death narrowly’ in Yemen airport attack
The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO) has said he and his colleagues “escaped death narrowly” while being caught up in an Israeli air strike on an airport in Yemen. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus recounted feeling “completely exposed” during the attack, which killed at least six, in an interview with BBC Radio 4’s Today…
Read MoreGerman LNG terminal in Wilhelmshaven to maintain deliveries in 2025
The liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in the northern German port of Wilhelmshaven is set to keep supplying Germany with gas in the first quarter of 2025, its operator said on Saturday. The state-owned Deutsche Energy Terminal (DET) confirmed a report in the Nordwest-Zeitung newspaper that all available capacity at the Brunsbüttel and Wilhelmshaven terminals…
Read MoreSweden embarks on a sober search for more cemetery space in case of war
GOTHENBURG, Sweden (AP) — Burial associations in Sweden are looking to acquire enough land for something they hope they’ll never have to do: bury thousands of people in the event of war. The search follows recommendations from the Church of Sweden’s national secretariat, which reflect crisis preparedness guidelines from the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB)…
Read MorePutin apologises for plane crash, without saying Russia at fault
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has apologised to the president of neighbouring Azerbaijan for the downing of a commercial airliner in Russian airspace, in which 38 people were killed – but stopped short of saying Russia was responsible. In his first comments on the Christmas Day crash, Putin said the “tragic incident” had occurred when Russian…
Read MorePutin apologizes after Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash
Russian President Vladimir Putin has apologized to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev following the crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane in Kazakhstan that resulted in 38 fatalities, according to the Kremlin. “Vladimir Putin apologized for the tragic incident occurring in Russian airspace,” the Kremlin in Moscow announced on Saturday following a phone conversation between the two…
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