South Korea’s parliament has accepted a invoice that bans main app-store operators resembling Alphabet’s Google and Apple from forcing software program builders to make use of their fee techniques, marking the primary such curb by a serious economic system. ...

Overseas staff have denounced a South Korean metropolis’s newly launched Covid-screening marketing campaign as “racist” and “nonsensical” after it made testing obligatory for workplaces with lower than 30 workers – if considered one of them is a foreigner. ...

South Korea swept to a ninth straight gold within the girls's archery on the Olympic Video games – however there was a lot to be happy with for his or her Russian opponents within the ultimate, who secured silver after three excellent performances. ...

A mud storm that engulfed Mars in 2018 destroyed a vortex of chilly air across the planet's south pole and introduced an early spring to the hemisphere. Against this, the storm triggered solely minor distortions to the polar vortex within the northern hemisphere and no dramatic seasonal modifications.

Well-known South Korean climber Kim Hong-bin, who rose to prominence after shedding his fingers to frostbite three a long time in the past, has been reported lacking throughout a current descent from the Karakoram mountains in northern Pakistan. ...

The complete South Africa soccer staff have been pressured to quarantine after two gamers turned the primary athletes in Tokyo's Olympic Village to check optimistic for Covid-19, whereas Japan's captain has known as for followers to be allowed in. ...

Widespread looting and burning has killed over 100, and wrecked factories, outlets and houses, with Indian and whites more and more the goal. Is the nation I like, the place I spent 30 years of my life, spiralling into racial warfare? ...

Beijing has as soon as once more referred to as on the US to desist from provocative habits after an American warship entered the waters across the Paracel Islands on the fifth anniversary of a courtroom ruling in opposition to Chinese language claims to the area. ...

TAIPEI—A U.S. plane service group led by the usRonald Reagan has entered the South China Sea as a part of a routine mission, the U.S. Navy mentioned on Tuesday, at a time of rising tensions between Washington and Beijing, which claims most the disputed waterway. China steadily objects to U.S. ...

The obvious slender victory of socialist Pedro Castillo in Peru is the most recent splash of a ‘pink wave’ engulfing South America, the place Washington and its ‘free market fundamentalism’ have been calling the photographs for many years. ...