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Yoon Ejected as South Korean Court Upholds Impeachment

Australia is one of America’s closest allies; the two countries have fought alongside each other in every major conflict since World War I. Jake Sullivan, former President Joe Biden’s national security adviser, said in January that the two had effectively entered a “strategic marriage.” Lately, though, Australians have been feeling rather like a spouse who … Read more

Share prices fell sharply for a second day on Friday in Asia, and futures market trading indicated that American share prices might soon tumble further as well, as worries spread about the economic effect of President Trump’s broad tariffs. The Nikkei 225 Index in Japan was down 3.8 percent. That followed a 2.8 percent drop … Read more

For hours, the atmosphere in the streets surrounding South Korea’s Constitutional Court in downtown Seoul had been tense. Scores had camped out overnight in the early spring chill in the lead-up to the court’s historic decision on Friday. The crowds for and against the dismissal of the country’s impeached president, Yoon Suk Yeol, were separated … Read more

South Korea’s Constitutional Court on Friday upheld the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol, removing him from office four months after his short-lived imposition of martial law on Dec. 3. Protesters who have been demanding his ouster erupted in cheers at the ruling, waving flags and pumping their fists in the air. For weeks leading … Read more

The five young doctors took up their mission together: defying Myanmar’s junta to treat the wounded through the coup and deadly military crackdown four years ago. Since then, each continued supporting the democratic cause. For Dr. Min, 32, that meant fleeing to the jungle to offer battlefield triage to rebel forces who were fighting the … Read more

The authorities in South Korea were expecting tens of thousands of protesters to descend on central Seoul on Friday as the nation’s Constitutional Court decides the fate of President Yoon Suk Yeol. At least 14,000 police had been deployed to the area around the court, closing subway stations and locking down an area near a … Read more

U.S. stocks nose-dived after Trump’s tariffs rollout Wall Street tumbled to its worst day since the pandemic yesterday in response to President Trump’s major round of tariffs on U.S. imports, as countries reeling from the blow weighed countermeasures. Stocks in Asia and Europe also fell. Some European leaders vowed to retaliate after Trump slapped a … Read more

President Trump on Wednesday ordered the closure of a loophole that allows retailers to directly send clothes and other goods from China to American shoppers without paying tariffs. The loophole, known as the de minimis exemption, currently applies to goods worth less than $800. Such goods are allowed to enter the United States tariff free. … Read more

The global economic system that the United States has shaped and steered for more than three-quarters of a century was animated by a powerful guiding vision: that trade and finance would be based on cooperation and consent rather than coercion. That system, for all its faults, entrenched the United States as the world’s richest nation … Read more