Yoon supporters storm South Korea court

Hundreds of supporters of South Korea’s arrested president, Yoon Suk-yeol, stormed a court building early yesterday after his detention was extended, smashing windows and breaking inside, an attack the country’s acting leader called “unimaginable”.On Wednesday Yoon became the first sitting South Korean president to be arrested as he faces allegations of insurrection related to his […]

Syria destroys millions of captagon pills, other drugs

Syrian security forces destroyed seized drugs yesterday including around 100mn pills of the amphetamine-like stimulant captagon — whose production and trafficking flourished under ousted president Bashar al-Assad, an official said.A 2022 AFP investigation found that Syria under Assad had become a narco state, with the $10bn captagon industry dwarfing all other exports and funding both […]

After celebrations, displaced Gazans return home to destruction

Columns of people hundreds strong were making their way home in northern Gaza yesterday, flanked on both sides by countless buildings turned to rubble, as a ceasefire took effect in the Palestinian territory.In places, they crossed an ashen landscape, heaped with pulverised concrete and studded with the skeletons of ruined buildings.They walked towards the northern […]

3 Israeli hostages freed as Gaza truce begins

The first three Israeli hostages were released Sunday under a long-awaited Gaza truce aimed at ending more than 15 months of war that has ravaged the Palestinian territory.As the ceasefire took effect in the morning, thousands of displaced, war-weary Palestinians set off across the devastated Gaza Strip to return home.In the northern area of Jabalia, […]