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Yoon Suk-yeol’s legal team has challenged the legitimacy of a new warrant for his arrest, accusing authorities of exploiting allegedly biased courts. Lawyers for impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol have criticised efforts to detain him following his brief imposition of martial law, while the acting president cautioned on Wednesday against potential confrontations between law enforcement and presidential security personnel.As anti-corruption officials and police prepared for another attempt to apprehend Yoon after last week’s failed operation, the presidential security service reinforced his compound with barbed wire and rows of vehicles blocking access.The Corruption Investigation Office for High-Ranking Officials, which leading…

All the latest developments on day three of the tournament. The third day of Judo’s 2024 Junior World Championships took place today in Dushanbe, Tajikistian.The crowd poured into the Kasri Tennis Arena to witness the best of the best go for gold.Azerbaijan’s -100kg Paris Olympic Champion Zelym Kotsoiev thrilled the crowd by attending the tournament to support his younger brother. But it was a man from Azerbaijan’s neighbour to the north, Georgia, Luka Javakhishvili who claimed victory at -81kg. This huge winding makikomi technique was the decisive moment in the match! Earning the Georgian the junior world title.Harvest Group Representative…

It’s unclear to what part of the inauguration Zemmour and Knafo were invited or who exactly reached out to them. POLITICO has contacted the Trump transition team for comment. While it would appear at first glance that Trump and Le Pen were made from the same political mold, fusing old-fashioned protectionism with an anti-immigration, populist platform, the duo have never really hit it off the way the president-elect has with Europe’s other prominent hard-right politicians, such as Hungary’s Viktor Orbán or Italy’s Giorgia Meloni. Unlike Le Pen, both Zemmour and Knafo espouse a liberal economic worldview more in line with…

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Senior managers from Shein and its rival Temu were summoned to the UK’s parliamentary business and trade committee to answer questions about their labour rights compliance and how they sourced their products. Executives representing fast-fashion giant Shein have refused to answer questions from UK politicians about whether the products the company sells contain cotton from China. The senior managers from Shein and its rival Temu were summoned to Parliament’s business and trade committee to answer questions about their labour rights compliance and how they sourced their products. The hearing came amid reports that Shein, founded in China but now based…

On the final day of the Judo Junior World Mixed Team Championship in Dushanbe, Japan defended their title with a 4-2 victory over France. Korea claimed bronze after defeating Mongolia 4-0, while Uzbekistan took the other bronze with a win over Azerbaijan. This is day five and the final team tournament in Dushanbe, Tajikistan’s capital city that hosts the Judo Junior World Mixed Team Championship.The Teams is an event like no other. It takes the individual sport of Judo, and brings 6 players together, 3 male and 3 female, to form one united team.In the first Bronze medal contest, The…

Alexander Schallenberg from the center-right Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) will take over as chancellor on Friday following the resignation of Karl Nehammer over the breakdown of coalition talks among Vienna’s mainstream parties. New negotiations, led by the far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ), are set to kick off in the coming days. President Alexander Van der Bellen will “entrust” Schallenberg with the top job in the meantime, the president’s office told news agency APA.

Emmanuel Macron said the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is not working and that several countries are breaking away from it, but in Geneva European Trade Commissioner Maroš Sefcovic renewed the EU’s commitment to multilateral world trade rules. European Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič underscored EU commitment to World Trade Organization rules during a visit to the body in Geneva on Tuesday, brushing aside scepticism about adherence to the body’s rules expressed earlier this week by French President Emmanuel Macron.“We are committed to the proper functioning and revitalisation of the World Trade Organisation,” he said before meeting director-general of the WTO Ngozi…

Jean-Marie Le Pen, who led the National Rally (then called the National Front) party from 1972 to 2011, passed away on Tuesday at the age of 96 in a health facility in the Paris area. He was the longtime face of the far right in France and became notorious for his hate speech and Holocaust denial convictions. Following news of his death, hundreds of people gathered in cities across France on Tuesday evening to celebrate with chanting, smoke bombs and fireworks. In Paris, several hundred people gathered at the Place de la République. A placard reading, “That filthy racist is…

Volkswagen managers will take pay cuts worth over €300m by 2030, according to comments published Wednesday from Gunnar Kilian, a VW human resources board member.Volkswagen’s board would lose a larger proportion of their salary than the rest of management or the workforce, Kilian told local paper Braunschweiger Zeitung.Kilian declined to give further details.Volkswagen reached a deal with unions in December that would avoid plant closures in the near-term.The agreement outlines a cost-cutting plan that would allow €15bn of savings annually – in the medium-term.This includes €1.5bn of savings in labour costs, with staffing numbers set to be reduced by 35,000…