Opposition calls for impeachment of interim president in South Korea

“Han turned out to be a sitting insurrectionist, not a sitting president,” said Park Chan-dae, leader of South Korea’s largest opposition party. Han argues that the appointment of judges depends on the approval of the ruling party.

Embraer plane crash leaves 38 dead

The crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane left 38 people dead yesterday in Kazakhstan. The aircraft, an Embraer 190, manufactured in Brazil, carried 67 people – 29 of whom survived.

The plane was going from Baku, Azerbaijan, to Grozny, capital of Chechnya, one of the republics of the Russian Federation, but deviated from the route and caught fire while making an emergency landing near the city of Aktau, Kazakhstan.

According to several air safety experts, images of the fuselage and a video recorded from inside the cabin reinforce the hypothesis that the aircraft was hit by fire from an anti-aircraft battery while flying over Chechnya. The region was the target of Ukrainian drone attacks. Today, Russian and Azerbaijani authorities said the causes of the accident were still being investigated and that it was too early to draw any conclusions.

Clashes leave 17 dead in Syria

Officials from the new Syrian government said forces loyal to ousted president Bashar al Assad killed 14 and injured 10 soldiers of the new regime. in an ambush near the Mediterranean port of Tartus on Tuesday. The region is the main base of the Alawite minority, a branch of Islam followed by Assad.