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South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol is facing parliamentary moves to impeach him after he sent heavily armed forces into Seoul’s streets with his baffling and sudden declaration of martial law that harkened to past dictatorships

South Korea has only been governed democratically since 1988, with a previous history of military-authoritarian rule dating back to the Korean war

Rightwing president backs down after most serious challenge to country’s democracy since 1980s

South Korean president miscalculated by thinking some MPs would back his declaration of martial law

Yoon Suk Yeol says in late-night address that opposition parties have taken parliamentary process hostage

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A 27-year-old apologizes for the massacre led by his grandfather.

In October, the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of China endorsed another five-year term for President Xi Jinping, effectively ending the practice of limiting the presidency to two terms. It was thus also an unmistakable break with the tradition of collective leadership established in the late 1970s after the…