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The president’s short-lived declaration of a military emergency late Tuesday was young South Koreans’ first exposure to a state of affairs their elders remember well.

Soon after President Yoon Suk Yeol’s declaration on Tuesday, lawmakers voted to defy him, prompting the president to say he was lifting his order.

Two Americans and a Canadian were climbing Aoraki/Mount Cook before failing to show up to a prearranged flight on Monday.

A vote by the lower house of Parliament could force the prime minister to resign, leaving his budget legislation in limbo.

Across southern Africa, political parties that have led their countries since the end of colonialism have ceded power to the opposition in recent months. Namibia bucked the trend.

Mark Rutte said it was up to Ukraine to decide when it was ready to begin negotiations with Russia — and that the West should help strengthen Kyiv’s position beforehand.

Plus, become a gladiator for a day.

President Yoon Suk Yeol said he would pull the order hours after South Korea’s National Assembly voted to halt it. Thousands of protesters took to the streets in Seoul, demanding that the president resign.

The move escalates supply chain warfare and comes a day after the Biden administration expanded curbs on the sale of advanced American technology to China.

Soldiers wearing helmets and carrying long guns pushed back against people who tried to enter the National Assembly, after President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law.