Day: December 26, 2024

SEOUL – South Korea’s opposition will push for a vote on Friday on an impeachment motion against acting president Han Duck-soo, after he refused to appoint Constitutional Court judges to complete the process of removing his predecessor from office.

President-elect Donald Trump has surrounded himself with a tight-knit group of wealthy tech barons who will help define his second term in the White House.

The Asian tsunami that crashed into coastal communities around the Indian Ocean on Dec. 26, 2004, is this century’s deadliest natural disaster so far.

People from the South East who were touched by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami look back 20 years on.

South Korea’s main opposition party has submitted a motion to impeach the country’s acting leader over his reluctance to fill three Constitutional Court vacancies ahead of the court’s review of rebellion charges against impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol stemming from his short-lived martial law decr

Under the shade of trees at a mass grave in Indonesia’s Aceh province, survivors and mourners recited Islamic prayers, commemorating the deaths of tens of thousands killed when a tsunami decimated the area two decades ago.It is one of several prayer sites across western Indonesia — including a grand mosque and other mass graves — holding ceremonies that drew thousands of mourners who remember the December 26, 2004, tsunami.

With better technology, we could further shorten the time between an earthquake and when the tsunami warning goes out.

With better technology, we could further shorten the time between an earthquake and when the tsunami warning goes out.

The waves, which towered as high as 30 metres, killed more than 220,000 people in 15 countries in the deadliest tsunami in history