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Park Won-Soon, pictured here in May 2014, ran South Korea's sprawling capital for nearly a decade
World
21.08.2024
Seoul mayor in apparent suicide after #MeToo allegations
Anna Lindstedt, Beijing envoy between 2016 and 2019, is accused of brokering an unauthorised meeting to get a Chinese-Swedish publisher released
World
21.08.2024
Sweden ex-envoy faces verdict in China dissident case
A campaign poster bearing a portrait of President Duda is displayed on a fence in Godziszow, a bedrock of his conservative administration
World
21.08.2024
Hopes and fears as polarised Poles choose president
The family of Bakary Sangare, one of the latest victims, gathers in a Fana courtyard
World
21.08.2024
Mystery beheadings stir fear in remote Mali town
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Singapore's on-the-ground election campaigning has been limited this time around but the online campaign has been lively
World 21.08.2024
The gloves come on: virus-hit Singapore votes
A handout picture from Colombia's Defence Ministry shows smoke billowing from the Sierra de La Macarena National Natural Park, Colombia, in 2019. The Latin America country has lost hundreds of thousands of hectares of forest in recent years
World 21.08.2024
Colombia lost forest area the size of Sao Paulo in 2019: report
Bolivia's interim president Jeanine Anez, shown in this January 28, 2020 photo, said she got tested for coronavirus after four of her cabinet members tested positive in recent days
World 21.08.2024
Bolivia's interim President Anez says she has coronavirus
A mid-level employee in the press office of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is pictured here on July 3, 2020, stands accused of working for an Egyptian intelligence service
World 21.08.2024
Employee of Merkel's press office suspected of spying for Egypt
Intelligence suggests that Taliban-linked militants were paid bounties by Russia to target US soldiers such as these seen in Afghanistan's Wardak province in 2019
World 21.08.2024
Russian bounties: Pentagon vows 'action' if intel confirmed
The protests had been banned owing the health state of emergency imposed to limit the spread of the coronavirus
World 21.08.2024
Three dead in DR Congo protest clashes
Map of Nigeria locating Maiduguri in the state of Borno.
World 21.08.2024
35 troops killed in Nigeria jihadist ambush, 30 missing: new toll
An estimated 2.8 million people depend on aid in northwest Syria, the United Nations says
World 21.08.2024
Syrians alarmed at Russia push to limit cross-border aid
Algeria has reported nearly 18,000 cases of COVID-19, including about 1,000 deaths
World 21.08.2024
Exhausted Algeria medics sound alarm over virus response
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