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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean appeals court on Wednesday sentenced ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol to seven years in prison for resisting arrest and bypassing a legitimate Cabinet meeting before his brief imposition of martial law in December 2024.
The conviction for obstruction of justice and other charges comes on top of a life sentence he has already received on rebellion charges stemming from his baffling authoritarian push, which triggered the most serious crisis for the country’s democracy in decades.
Judge Yoon Sung-sik of the Seoul High Court said the conservative former president sidestepped a legally mandated full Cabinet meeting before declaring martial law, falsified documents to conceal the lapse and deployed security officials “like a private army” to resist law enforcement efforts to arrest him in the weeks following his impeachment. Former President Yoon stood quietly as the verdict was delivered and made no comment.
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Mali has been plunged into its worse security crisis in more than a decade after Tuareg separatists and al Qaeda-linked jihadist fighters joined forces to launch sweeping attacks on Saturday, delivering a huge setback for its ruling military junta and its Russian allies.
Insurgents struck the main army base outside the capital Bamako and killed General Sadio Camara, the country’s defence minister, further undermining the junta’s claim that it is restoring order to impoverished West African nation that has long battled Islamist militants and separatist rebellions. The violence also saw rebel forces drive Russian mercenaries out of the key northern city of Kidal.
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Lebanese President Joseph Aoun also says Israel is violating international law that protects civilians and humanitarian workers.
Lebanon’s prime minister has accused Israel of perpetrating a “heinous crime” in the targeting and killing of civil defence emergency workers, three of whom were among five people killed in a double Israeli strike in southern Lebanon.
Two successive Israeli strikes on a building in the town of Majdal Zoun on Tuesday killed five people, including three rescue workers who went to help those injured in the initial Israeli attack on the targeted building, Lebanon’s Ministry of Health said.
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A man was arrested after he was seen running with a knife “attempting to stab Jewish members of the public”, the Shomrim Jewish neighbourhood watch said on social media.
It added that two people were stabbed and were being treated by Hatzola, a Jewish volunteer ambulance service.
The incident in the British capital took place in Golders Green, home to a large Jewish community.
It comes in the wake of a spate of arson attacks on synagogues and community sites in north London in recent weeks.
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For those familiar with the Old Testament narrative surrounding the ancient city of Sodom, a recent announcement from the Israeli government might sound like evidence that history is repeating itself.
Near the site many believe to be where that city was destroyed by God, largely due to the sexual immorality of its citizens, there will soon be a four-day LGBT “pride” event that the Israeli government noted would even include “children’s activities.”
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The promotion of the event by the Israeli government — just one day after the Israel Defense Forces confirmed that one of its soldiers smashed a statue of the crucified Christ outside a church with a sledgehammer — prompted significant backlash among some conservative Christians.
American theologian and pastor Dale Partridge tweeted, “The devil couldn’t have written it better. ‘The lowest place on earth’ ‘The Dead Sea becomes pride land.’”
BlazeTV host Auron MacIntyre raised the matter of whether his tax dollars might be subsidizing the event, then asked, “Can anyone very carefully explain to me why American Christians owe anything to this?”
Conservative commentator Michael Knowles insinuated that the Israeli government’s announcement answered the question recently posed by the New York Times about the cause of the recent increase in meteor sightings overhead.
Knowles’ colleague, Matt Walsh, called the planned festival “absolutely evil and disgusting.”
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Pressure mounts on the disgraced chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, who was forced to “step aside” from his position in May 2025 after serious sexual assault allegations. Newly revealed witness testimony states that Qatar promised to “look after” him if he continued the witch hunt against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday
Following a May 2024 request by Khan, the Hague-based ICC issued arrest warrants for Prime Minister Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for the crime of overseeing a military operation to free 240 hostages from Hamas’ captivity in the aftermath of the October 7 massacre. By issuing the warrant, the ICC was requiring its 125 member states, including most of the European nations, to arrest the sitting Israeli prime minister and hand him over to the kangaroo court.
The latest testimony and supporting evidence also indicate that Republican Senator Lindsey Graham was a target of the operation. The Qatar-linked “intelligence operation also sought to target two Americans: Tom Lynch, the senior ICC official who first reported the assault allegation, and Sen. Lindsey Graham,” the business daily added.
Buying off the ICC Prosecutor.
Qatar launched an intelligence operation & promised to “look after” Karim Khan over targeting Israel. When the operation’s manager was asked if backing came from a sheikh or the state, he said: “the state.”
A crooked prosecutor. A corrupted court.…
— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) April 28, 2026
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A Scottish judge has dismissed charges against 75-year-old pro-life grandmother Rose Docherty, who was arrested last September for peacefully protesting abortion outside an abortion center in Scotland.
Docherty was merely holding a sign and offering consensual conversation in a so-called buffer zone outside a Glasgow hospital that kills babies.
Sheriff Stuart Reid at Glasgow Sheriff Court ruled that prosecutors “failed to disclose an offence known to the law of Scotland” and dismissed the two charges of “influencing” within the zone pro loco et tempore.
Docherty, a Christian grandmother from Glasgow, had stood silently with a sign reading: “Coercion is a crime, here to talk, only if you want.” She did not approach anyone, did not discuss abortion and offered conversation only to those who wanted it.
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Kristin is a wife and a mother who was diagnosed with stage four ovarian cancer. What followed was not just a battle against disease, but a fight for her very dignity.
Living in Canada, Kristin says doctors told her that her only option was physician-assisted suicide. Instead of offering aggressive treatment or hope, she was allegedly told that her condition was terminal and that procedures like HIPEC surgery would not save her life.
Rather than honoring her life, the system presented her with a devastating alternative: end her life early instead of pursuing further care.
But Kristin and her husband, Donovan, refused to accept that answer.
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A High Court judge has overturned the conviction of veteran pro‑life campaigner David Skinner, for sending an email with graphic images opposing abortion and censorship zones around clinics in Bournemouth.
On Friday 24 May Mr Justice Saini ruled that although the offence was technically made out under domestic law, maintaining a criminal conviction would amount to a disproportionate interference with freedom of expression and freedom of religion.
The judgment was handed down on Friday 24 May in Bournemouth, bringing to an end a criminal proceedings that have lasted nearly 3 years, as the court said the case raised fundamental constitutional issues under Articles 9 and 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
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A new Issues & Insights (I&I)/TIPP poll is showing increasing disunity, especially among — you guessed it — the left.
Each month, the national online I&I/TIPP Poll asks Americans across the nation whether they would say the U.S. is “very united,” “somewhat united,” “somewhat divided,” “very divided,” or simply “not sure.”
From this, I&I/TIPP creates a national Unity Index, which allows for comparisons over time.
What is it saying? Well, for one, Americans over the past five years or so have never been unified, even though there have been times the Unity Index has trended up.
Indeed, the Unity Index has never breached the neutral 50 level in the past half-decade. In August of last year, not too long after Donald Trump took office, it briefly touched 40.8, its all-time high. But since then, it has dropped back to April’s current reading of 32.1.
While that might seem dramatic, it’s in fact in keeping with the long-trend range for the index, as the chart below shows.
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Video released by Ukraine’s Third Army Corps shows a four-hour rescue in Lyman, where a 77-year-old woman was saved by an autonomous vehicle after being spotted by drone pilots. The ground drone carried a blanket and a note reading: “Grandma, sit down!”
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The White House is warning lawmakers that funding used to pay personnel at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is close to being depleted, sounding the alarm about potential disruptions to airport security and other critical operations if Congress does not act soon.
In a memo sent late Tuesday, the Office of Management and Budget cautioned that stopgap funding measures used to cover payroll for agencies such as the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) could be exhausted as early as May. The administration urged the House of Representatives to move quickly on a budget resolution already approved by the Senate, describing the situation as increasingly urgent.
“DHS will soon run out of critical operating funds, placing essential personnel and operations at risk,” the memo stated.
The warning comes as the House faces internal divisions that have slowed progress on legislation aimed at restoring full funding to the department. Speaker Mike Johnson is navigating disagreements within his narrow Republican majority, leaving the chamber largely stalled on several key issues, including the Homeland Security budget.
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Oregon officials declined to cooperate with ICE and released Kumar on April 2, he was caught by immigration authorities April 22.
Federal immigration authorities arrested Rajinder Kumar, an illegal immigrant semi-truck driver accused in a crash that killed an Oregon couple married just 16 days, after local officials released him from jail earlier this month.
According to the Department of Homeland Security, Kumar allegedly jackknifed his semi-truck and trailer on November 24, 2025, blocking both lanes of US Highway 20 in Deschutes County. A Subaru Outback then struck the truck, killing driver William Micah Carter and passenger Jennifer Lynn Lower.
The Department of Homeland Security said Kumar was released from jail on April 2, 2026, after Oregon officials declined to cooperate with ICE. Federal agents arrested him on April 22. Kumar is now being held at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma, Washington, and has been placed in removal proceedings.
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After a rare US visit from King Charles III, reports point to a productive and amicable meeting with President Donald Trump that signals continued strength in the relationship between the two nations.
At one point during Tuesday’s state dinner, the British monarch gave a bell to Trump and explained why he felt it was an appropriate gift.
Here’s what Fox News reported:
The King gifted Trump the original bell from HMS Trump, a British submarine launched in 1944 that served in the Pacific during World War II.
“Tonight, Mr. President, I am delighted to present to you as a personal gift the original bell,” Charles said, noting it “may stand as a testimony to our nation’s shared history and shining future.”
Other memorable moments from the dinner were shared widely via social media:
President Trump claimed the U.S. had “militarily defeated” Iran as he spoke during the White House state dinner with King Charles III on Tuesday night, adding that the British monarch “agrees with me more than I do” that Iran should not be in possession of nuclear weapons. pic.twitter.com/GoYzUf1zDn
— CBS News (@CBSNews) April 29, 2026