Justin McCurry

Indonesia is the Asian capital of wildlife trafficking, a market estimated at $20 billion according to Interpol. The archipelago is one of the world’s biggest reservoirs of biodiversity. Wild animals…

While some say political turmoil has harmed country’s cultural reputation, others say it proves resilience

Dramatic walkout by members of Yoon Suk Yeol’s party leads assembly speaker to declare vote invalid

North Korea has broken its silence over the political turmoil in South Korea , with state media describing, without any apparent hint of irony, how its president had unleashed a “dictatorship on the people”.

State media in neighbouring country that has been ruled by a dictatorial dynasty since 1948 breaks silence to criticise President Yoon’s ‘gangster nation’

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South Korea 's parliament has voted to impeach the president, Yoon Suk Yeol, almost two weeks after his short-lived declaration of martial law plunged the country into its worst political crisis for decades.

Attention now turns to constitutional court, which must decide whether to remove Yoon from office or reject impeachment

The vote to impeach South Korea's president, Yoon Suk Yeol, was a dramatic fall from grace for the conservative leader, who must now suffer the ignominy of being forced from office well before the end of his five-year term.

Authorities relax laws to make it easier for hunters to carry out ‘emergency shootings’ when bears are spotted in populated areas