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On the first anniversary of South Korea's shock declaration of martial law, President Lee Jae Myung vowed to address the fallout from last year's failed insurrection and to ensure those responsible are held accountable. On December 3, 2024, former president Yoon Suk Yeol's declaration of martial law prompted massive protests and a showdown in parliament. "The recklessness of those who tried to destroy the constitutional order and even plan a war all for their personal ambition must be brought to justice," Lee said on Wednesday. Lee said in an address marking the anniversary that the bid had threatened to inflict "irreparable" damage on South Korea's democracy if not for public resistance. Rally to mark the anniversary of martial law declaration The president said he would propose desi...

The search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will recommence at the end of December, Malaysia's transport ministry said on Wednesday, The Boeing 777 plane disappeared on March 8, 2014. It was carrying 239 passengers, mostly Chinese nationals, and crew when it vanished from air radar during a flight from Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The plane wreckage has never been found despite numerous search attempts, and its fate is one the world's biggest aviation mysteries. Ocean Infinity to search seabed The ministry said in a statement that it "wishes to update that the deep-sea search for missing wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 will be resuming on 30 December 2025." The ocean exploration and survey company Ocean Infinity will conduct the search operation...

Within the first week of the current United Nations (UN) campaign in Libya, "16 Days of Activism against Violence Against Women and Girls," the murders of three Libyan women have made headlines. Social media influencer Khansa Al-Mujahid was shot while driving her car near Tripoli. Gynaecologist Amani Hajja was killed by members of her family in the city of Misrata, and the body of a woman who was found in a basin southeast of Tripoli is yet to be identified. Al-Sediq al-Sour, attorney general in Libya's western political capital Tripoli has called for an urgent and transparent investigation into the crimes. However, Asma Khalifa, co-founder of the feminist, Libya-based think tank Tamazight Women's Movement, and research fellow at the German GIGA Institute of Middle East Studies, says sh...

Nigeria's defense minister Mohammed Badaru Abubakar has resigned, the presidency said on Monday, with immediate effect. Presidential spokesperson Mayo Onanuga said in a statement that Abubakar was quitting on health grounds. "His resignation comes amid President [Bola] Tinubu's declaration of a national security emergency, with plans to elaborate on its scope in due course," the spokesperson said. Nigeria's armed banditry is a security crisis Nigeria has long been plagued by mass kidnappings, but the past weeks have seen a surge in attacks and abductions by armed bandits. Most recently, gunmen attacked a church in Kogi state in central Nigeria, abducting the pastor along with nearly a dozen worshipers during a Sunday morning service. On Saturday, some 30 women, including a bride and ...

Key points Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of the capital, Sofia, as well as at least a dozen other cities on Monday evening in the biggest protests the Balkan country has seen for years. In central Sofia, demonstrators packed the giant square in front of the National Assembly building. One of the rally organizers put the attendance at 50,000, according to the Bulgarian News Agency, BTA. They chanted "Resignation!" and sang and danced as they waved Bulgarian and European Union flags The protesters projected the words "Resign" and "Mafia" onto the government buildings around the square and held two large banners saying: "Generation Z is coming" and "Young Bulgaria without the mafia."  ​​Monday's protests are the biggest Bulgaria has seen in yearsImage: Nikolay Doychino...

Key points The head of Apple's AI team, John Giannandrea, is to retire in early 2026 Apple faces criticism for lagging behind competitors in AI technology The tech company has brought in a veteran engineer from Google and Microsoft Apple announced on Monday that its head of artificial intelligence, John Giannandrea, is stepping down. Giannandrea, who led Machine Learning and AI Strategy for seven years, will retire in spring 2026, Apple said in a statement. Giannandrea will serve as an advisor during his remaining time with the technology company. He will be replaced by Amar Subramanya, who has joined Apple as a vice president of AI, the company said. Subramanya was most recently a corporate vice president of AI at Microsoft for a short stint. Before that, he spent 16 years at G...

Police said on Tuesday that gunmen in the Nigerian state of Kwara have kidnapped 10 women and children in the latest armed gang seizure to rock Africa's most populous country. Authorities said the Monday night seizure in the western state targeted the village of Isapa. Kwara state police commissioner Ojo Adekimi said the attackers were herders who had "shot sporadically" and seized women and children from local farming families. "There is a manhunt for them. Policemen are in the bush with local hunters," he told the news agency AFP, before adding that one woman had managed to flee from the attackers as the onslaught took place.Nigeria hit by second mass school abduction in daysTo view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video ...

Maria Magdalena and her four children live in a wooden hut in a small settlement on the sandy soil of the Ilha do Cabo peninsula in Angola. From here, she can see cargo ships waiting in endless lines to enter the harbor in the country's capital, Luanda. Angola is rich in raw materials, but the vast majority of the population lives in poverty. Magdalena also has a view of the city's skyline but is not following the key summit in the capital's government district on the other side of the bay. It is hard enough for her to organize her daily life. "I urgently need work. Without work, I cannot feed my children," she said. Africa and Europe in crisis mode In Luanda, the African Union (AU) and the European Union (EU) held their seventh summit under the theme "promoting peace and prosperity t...

China sent a replacement Shenzhou-22 spacecraft to its crewed Tiangong space station on Tuesday, ensuring that the astronauts on board again have the means to leave the station if necessary.  The mission, China's first accelerated emergency space launch, plugged an 11-day gap where astronauts were on board the station without the means to return to Earth in an emergency. The flight time to the space station was a little less than four hoursImage: Ge Lixin/Xinhua/picture alliance What the China Manned Space Agency said about the operation The China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) said the spacecraft lifted off on board a Long March-2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 12:11 p.m. (0411 UTC/GMT).  "The spacecraft successfully separated from the rocket and en...