South Korea’s Yoon Suk Yeol arrested, investigators say, after hours-long standoff at residence | Yoon Suk Yeol

South Korea’s impeached president, Yoon Suk Yeol, has been arrested and is to undergo questioning over his ill-fated declaration of martial law last month, anti-corruption investigators said on Wednesday, bringing to an end an early-morning standoff outside his official residence in Seoul. Yoon remained defiant, however, saying he had agreed to cooperate with anti-corruption authorities…

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UN rights body accuses Rwanda-backed militia of killing children in eastern DRC | Democratic Republic of the Congo

The UN human rights office accused the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels of killing three children in Bakavu, the Democratic Republic of the Congo city they captured last week, expressing alarm at human rights violations by the militia. “Our office has confirmed cases of summary execution of children by M23 after they entered the city of Bukavu…

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