RIYADH — The AFC Asian Cup 2027, hosted by Saudi Arabia, will take place from January 7 to February 5, 2027.
The tournament will kick off with the opening match on January 7 and conclude with the final on February 5.
The matches will be held across (...)
North Korea has claimed it fired a new intermediate-range ballistic missile tipped with a hypersonic warhead which "will reliably contain any rivals in the Pacific region".
The launch on Monday — Pyongyang's first in two months — came as US (...)
North Korea has fired what appears to be an intermediate-range ballistic missile towards the sea to its east, South Korea's military said, in what is Pyongyang's first missile launch in two months.
The missile flew 1,100km before falling into the (...)
A South Korean man accused of being responsible for a cryptocurrency crisis which cost investors $40bn (£31.8bn) has finally been extradited to the United States.
Do Kwon was the boss of Terraform, which operated two cryptocurrencies — TerraUSD and (...)
The damaged flight data recorder from the Jeju Air passenger jet that crash-landed in South Korea will be sent to the United States for analysis, Seoul's transport ministry said Wednesday, as bereaved families began visiting the crash site.
The (...)
A Seoul court has issued an arrest warrant against South Korea's suspended president Yoon Suk Yeol over his attempt to impose martial law on 3 December.
The warrant comes after Yoon, who is being investigated for abusing his power and inciting an (...)
The sounds of sobbing, prayers and anguish echoed through the departures hall of an airport in southwestern South Korea on Monday as families of the victims killed when a passenger jet crash-landed over the weekend waited for their loved ones to be (...)
An Air Canada Express flight "experienced a suspected landing gear issue" after arriving at Halifax Stanfield International Airport in Nova Scotia on Saturday night, though no injuries were reported, according to the airline.
Flight AC2259 – which (...)
Jimmy Carter, the former peanut farmer who tried to restore virtue to the White House after the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, then rebounded from a landslide defeat to become a global advocate of human rights and democracy, has died at age (...)
South Korea's acting leader has ordered an emergency safety inspection of the country's entire airline operations, a day after 179 people were killed in the deadliest plane crash on its soil.
The Jeju Air plane burst into flames as it crash-landed (...)
A Jeju Air passenger plane burst into flames on Sunday after skidding off the runway at Muan Airport in South Korea, crashing into a concrete wall.
The accident, caused by an apparent failure of the front landing gear to deploy, claimed 177 lives (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia offered condolences to South Korea over the plane crash that claimed the lives of at least 177 people.
In a statement, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed the sincere condolences and sympathy of Saudi Arabia to the (...)
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has pledged to implement the "toughest" anti-U.S. measures, state media reported Sunday, just weeks before Donald Trump returns to the White House as U.S. president.
Kim's remarks, made during a five-day plenary (...)
South Korea has voted to impeach its acting president Han Duck-soo, two weeks after parliament voted to impeach its President Yoon Suk Yeol.
A total of 192 lawmakers voted for his impeachment, more than the 151 votes needed for it to succeed.
Prime (...)
Ukrainian forces have captured an injured North Korean soldier who was sent to support Russia's war, South Korea's spy agency confirmed Friday.
The soldier is believed to be the first North Korean prisoner of war captured since December, when (...)
RIYADH — Inspection teams from the Ministry of Commerce busted a warehouse run by an Asian resident in southern Al-Faisaliah neighborhood of Riyadh. The inspectors shut down the facility after seizing 33,000 pieces of counterfeit products.
The Asian (...)
South Korea has become a "super-aged" society with one in five people aged 65 or older, official data showed Tuesday, underscoring the country's deepening demographic crisis.
The number of people aged 65 and older stands at 10.24 million, accounting (...)
What Haneul remembers most about his time in the North Korean military is the gnawing, continuous hunger. He lost 10kg in his first month of service, due to a diet of cracked corn and mouldy cabbage.
Three months into training, he says almost his (...)
RIYADH — The General Authority of Foreign Trade (GAFT) has announced the imposition of definitive anti-dumping measures on imports of PVC-coated textiles and fabrics originating from China and South Korea.
Dr. Majed Al-Qasabi, minister of commerce (...)
South Korea's opposition leader Lee Jae-myung called for swift action to stabilize the country following the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol, urging cooperation between the government and parliament to address the crisis.
Speaking on Sunday, (...)
South Korea's parliament voted on Saturday to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol following his controversial martial law decree earlier this month.
The move ended a period of political paralysis but ignited a fierce national debate over Yoon's (...)
The news is moving so quickly in South Korea, the papers can no longer keep up. President Yoon Suk Yeol's shock attempt to impose martial law last Tuesday night was so short-lived it failed to make the front page. By the time he despatched the (...)
South Korea's former defense minister Kim Yong-hyun, who claimed full responsibility for the president's failed attempt to place the country under martial law last week, has tried to take his own life, an official said.
Authorities found him while (...)
Police in South Korea have raided the presidential office in Seoul, following President Yoon Suk Yeol's abortive attempt to impose martial law last week.
The raids are the latest development in what has been a tumultuous week in South Korean (...)
South Korean authorities have imposed a travel ban on President Yoon Suk Yeol, who is under investigation for his short-lived martial law declaration last Tuesday.
Yoon narrowly survived an impeachment motion against him over the weekend, after MPs (...)
