1875-Verney Cameron reaches Benguela in Angola from Africa’s east coast, the first European to cross equatorial Africa from sea to sea 1917-British government proclaims support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine in the Balfour Declaration 1930-Coronation of Ras Tafari Makonnen as Haile Selassie I, the 225th Emperor of the Ethiopian Solomonic Dynasty 1949-The Netherlands recognizes…
Police used tear gas to disperse protesters as demonstrations entered a third week ahead in cities and towns across France ahead of an expected general strike. The mainly youth-led protests are against the cost-of-living and deteriorating public services. Published On 1 Nov 20261 Nov 2026 Share France protests enter third week as police fire tear…
Protesters kick back tear gas canisters, during a demonstration organised by labor unions as part of nationwide protests called by the “Yellow Vests” movement joined by French high school and university students against the cost of living and rising fuel prices, Paris, France, Oct. 31. Reuters-Yonhap PARIS — Hundreds of thousands of protesters inspired by…
Syria’s Foreign Minister Asaad Shaibani speaks during a plenary session of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Manama Dialogue 2026 in Manama, Oct. 31. AFP-Yonhap MANAMA — Syria’s top diplomat on Saturday said Damascus was considering whether to join the NATO-style Mecca defense alliance that binds Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. Saudi Arabia, under…
Starved and exhausted residents of Oleshky arrive in Ukraine after months of isolation, but some stay behind. Starved and exhausted residents of the Russian-occupied Ukrainian town of Oleshky have crossed into Ukraine in a major evacuation operation of civilians, under the first humanitarian truce of its kind in more than four years of Moscow’s war….
Containers bound for export are stacked at a port in Busan, Oct. 1. Yonhap South Korea’s exports jumped 93.7 percent to a record $115.3 billion in October from a year earlier, driven largely by a sharp increase in semiconductor shipments, data showed Sunday. Strong global demand for semiconductors, coupled with continued investments by major technology…
Fiction Grand Prize winner Breanna Hundley, left, and fiction Commendation Award winner Jude Vandervort / Courtesy of Breanna Hundley and Jude Vandervort The Korea Times is pleased to announce the winners of its 57th Modern Korean Literature Translation Awards, one of the longest-running honors dedicated to Korean literary translation. The Grand Prize in fiction, awarded…
Crypto firm Binance says it has covered 90 percent of losses from the multibillion-dollar hack. Published On 1 Nov 20261 Nov 2026 The FBI has linked North Korea to the theft of a record $6.3bn in virtual assets from cryptocurrency exchange Binance. Malicious actors from North Korea were observed laundering the stolen assets by converting…
A farmworker walks through a flower plantation as dark clouds approach ahead of a storm near Bakersfield, California, US, Oct. 23. Reuters-Yonhap A federal immigration officer charged with aggravated assault after he ran over a Mexican man with his car in Houston will turn himself in on Monday, according to his attorney. Mario Alberto Morales,…
Grita Anindarini JAKARTA — When the energy transition confronts difficult economic conditions within a country, addressing the transition’s unequal impact becomes both more challenging and more imperative. In Indonesia, with an economy recently described as a “ticking time bomb,” coal mining has long been the main driver of GDP in certain regencies and provinces. Pursuit…
