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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A mysterious airstrip being built on a remote island in Yemen is nearing completion, satellite photos analyzed by The Associated Press show, one of several built in a nation mired in a stalemated war threatening to reignite. The airstrip on Abd al-Kuri Island, which rises out of the Indian Ocean near the mouth of the Gulf of Aden, could provide a key landing zone […]

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Law enforcement authorities on Friday were seeking to formally arrest impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, who was spending his third day at a detention center after his lawyers failed in a last-minute attempt to secure his release. Yoon, who was apprehended on Wednesday in a massive law enforcement operation at his residence, faces potential rebellion charges linked to his declaration of martial law […]

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – A Pakistani court sentenced former Prime Minister Imran Khan to 14 years imprisonment on Friday in a land corruption case, local broadcaster ARY News reported. The verdict in the case, the largest in terms of financial wrongdoing faced by Khan, was delivered by an anti-graft court in a prison in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, where Khan has been jailed since August 2023. (Reporting by Islamabad newsroom; […]

The war of words between Greg Norman and Rory McIlroy is as good as done. Although the ongoing negotiations between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf on their “framework agreement” have made little apparent progress, there is less animosity between the sides in 2025 than there was when LIV first entered the golf scene. Now LIV is moving forward with sports executive Scott O’Neil as its CEO, replacing Norman, who […]

TAIPEI (Reuters) – The United States will not abandon its allies in the Pacific and the incoming Trump administration should renew its commitment to providing Taiwan with the means to defend itself, former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said in Taipei on Friday. Trump’s first administration, in which Pence served, offered strong support for Chinese-claimed Taiwan, including the regularisation of arms sales. But Trump, who takes office on Monday for […]

By Nick Mulvenney MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Third seed Carlos Alcaraz dropped his first set of the tournament but still safely secured his passage into the fourth round of the Australian Open with a 6-2 6-4 6-7(3) 6-3 victory over Nuno Borges on Friday. The 21-year-old Spaniard has quietly but authoritatively gone about his business in the first week at Melbourne as teenagers ousted seeds, Jannik Sinner progressed in his title […]

By Ju-min Park, Hyunsu Yim and John Geddie SEOUL (Reuters) – As 3,000 riot police swarmed his hillside villa on Wednesday, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol huddled with party loyalists, telling them that people were increasingly realising the country’s legal system had been hijacked by leftist forces. “People are now seeing how serious the situation is,” the impeached president told the gathering, according to one lawmaker present, Yoon Sang-hyun. […]

ANKARA (Reuters) – Authorities in Turkey arrested a mayor from the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) early on Friday, after prosecutors accused him of rigging public tenders, an accusation his party dismisses as politically motivated. Riza Akpolat, the mayor of Istanbul’s central Besiktas district, has been detained by police since Monday in an investigation into an alleged criminal organisation suspected of rigging public tenders by bribing public officials. Akpolat […]

By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) -The Bank of Japan is likely to raise interest rates next week barring any market shocks when U.S. President-elect Donald Trump takes office, and maintain a pledge to keep pushing up borrowing costs if the economy continues to recover, said five sources familiar with its thinking. However, the central bank likely won’t offer explicit guidance on the pace of future rate hikes or how far […]

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — When Democrat John Fetterman got elected to Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate seat, many backers hoped he’d challenge convention and the status quo. He did and has — just not in the way many had expected. Fetterman has broken with his party on some policy matters and warmed to President-elect Donald Trump, a man he bashed on the 2024 campaign trail as a “felon” who is “obsessed with […]