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Opposition leader Bobi Wine says he left Uganda after going into hiding after disputed election
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) -- Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine said on Saturday he fled the country to escape a military search for him in the aftermath of a disputed presidential election.
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Ousted South Korean President Yoon appeals life sentence for martial law decree
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korea's jailed former president, Yoon Suk Yeol, has appealed his life sentence for rebellion over his brief imposition of martial law in December 2024, his lawyers said Tuesday.
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Ousted South Korean President Yoon appeals life sentence for martial law decree
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korea's jailed former president, Yoon Suk Yeol, has appealed his life sentence for rebellion over his brief imposition of martial law in December 2024, his lawyers said Tuesday.
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South Korea punishes former president who thought he could unravel democracy
It took just 11 days for South Korean lawmakers to impeach former President Yoon Suk Yeol after he declared martial law and threatened to unravel decades of hard-won democracy.
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Thirty years ago, the trial of another ousted leader gripped South Korea.
While sentencing Yoon to life imprisonment, presiding Judge Ji Gwi-yeon said that Mr. Yoon had "flouted legal procedures and resorted to violent means to try to incapacitate the National Assembly and undermine democratic norms.
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Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol handed life sentence for leading insurrection
Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was sentenced to life in prison Thursday after a court found him guilty of leading an insurrection during his short-lived imposition of martial law, which plunged the country into political chaos and threatened to unravel decades of democracy.
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Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol handed life sentence for leading insurrection | CNN
Seoul, South Korea --
Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was sentenced to life in prison Thursday after a court found him guilty of leading an insurrection during his short-lived imposition of martial law, which plunged the country into political chaos and threatened to unravel decades of democracy.
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Ex-South Korean President Yoon, Who Declared Martial Law, Faces Verdict: Live Updates
Mr. Yoon has denied the charges against him.
Only one former South Korean leader has been sentenced to death: Chun Doo-hwan, a military dictator who ruled South Korea for most of the 1980s with an iron fist, was condemned in 1996 on insurrection and mutiny charges connected to his 1979 coup and a massacre of pro-democracy protesters the following year.
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Peru Congress ousts president because of China-linked secret meetings
Peru's Congress on Tuesday ousted President José Jerí just four months into his term over a scandal involving undisclosed meetings with a Chinese businessman, extending a cycle of political upheaval that has gripped the Andean nation for much of the past decade.
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'No Prospect' of European Govts Stopping Civil War, Says Top Officer
Major unrest is inevitable because "we don't really live in a democracy" and political decisions are being made to "appease" and to avoid lesser unrest today rather than fend off greater trouble in the future, Colonel Richard Kemp has said.
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Timeline of past Bangladesh elections and the country's leaders
Elections in Bangladesh have historically been marked by bitter political campaigns, boycotts, and allegations of rigging, with the country's politics traditionally dominated by Hasina's Awami League and the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).
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Haiti's transitional council disbands with nothing to replace it
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The Transitional Presidential Council (TPC) ends its mandate on Saturday - after 22 months governing a country without a president.
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Burkina Faso's junta dissolves all of country's political parties, saying they cause divisions
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) -- Burkina Faso's military junta has dissolved all the political parties in the country and scrapped the laws governing them, according to a decree approved by the government on Thursday.
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Iran tries to confront 'catastrophe' of violent clampdown on protests
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A deep and painful inquest is under way inside Iran as politicians, academics and the security establishment try to come to terms with what has been described as a catastrophe after the violent protests and their even more violent suppression by the security forces.
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Trump and His Team Have a Well-Worn Crisis Playbook. It Backfired in Minnesota.
WASHINGTON -- President Trump rose to power in real estate, reality television and politics following a simple creed in moments of crisis: Cede no ground, never admit mistakes and attack.
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Another government shutdown? ICE debate jeopardizes spending deal.
WASHINGTON - Another government shutdown is on its way.
Since the killing of Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents sparked nationwide uproar, there's little hope on Capitol Hill for an eleventh-hour miracle in the next few days to salvage a spending deal that looked promising merely a week ago.
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Trump is right about one thing: Many Americans want a dictator
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Following his rambling, incoherent speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, Donald Trump said that his opponents often call him "a horrible dictator-type person.
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US Government Warns It Will Take Action if Haitian Politicians Destabilize Country
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- The U. S. warned the transitional council in charge of Haiti against making changes to the troubled country's government on Wednesday, as pressure mounts for the unelected body to move toward elections for the first time in a decade.
