Iranian Sports Minister Ahmad Donyamali says the country will not participate in the 2026 FIFA World Cup in North America, arguing that the “corrupt regime” in the United States has assassinated Iran’s leader and that players would be unsafe. He told Al Jazeera on state television that Iran cannot

A Turkish national in his 20s has been forwarded to prosecutors in Changwon, South Korea, on fraud and obstruction-of-business charges after allegedly using ChatGPT to fabricate nail-art injury photos and a forged medical certificate to demand a refund. The Changwon Jungbu Police Station said the man, identified only as A,

South Korea’s major ramen makers have announced price cuts across many products to align with government pressure to ease consumer inflation, but they largely spared their best-known flagship lines. The moves are being watched internationally for signals about domestic price dynamics, export considerations, and global supply chains tied to

The first day of South Korea’s new constitutional petition framework, known as the 재판소원법, spotlighted how individuals can seek review of court decisions at the Constitutional Court. On that day, the Supreme Court delivered a final ruling in the case of Democratic Party lawmaker Yang Moon-suk of Ansan-si Gap,

A South Korean musical actor identified as Nam Kyung-ju has been forwarded to prosecutors on rape charges, according to the Bangbae Police Station in Seoul. The police said yesterday that Nam was sent to the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office without detention. Nam is accused of raping a woman

South Korea’s weather agency forecast a cold start to Thursday the 12th, with subfreezing temperatures in many areas and a warm-up by midday. The Korea Meteorological Administration says temperatures will run from morning lows around -3°C to 5°C, rising to daytime highs of 7°C to 13°

Prosecutors from the Seoul Eastern District Prosecutors’ Office have begun a raid on Korea Evaluation Data, a Seoul-based corporate credit information firm, and its Daegu-Gyeongbuk branch, on suspicions of violating the Credit Information Act. The Criminal Division 6 started the search and seizure this morning, targeting the company’s headquarters

Oil prices briefly surpassed $100 per barrel again, rebounding after a three-day period of movement. South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service, the country’s financial regulator, held a roundtable with market specialists to discuss volatility in oil and other commodity markets and the potential spillovers into the domestic capital market.

LG CNS, the South Korean IT services arm of the LG Group, has formed a strategic partnership with Palantir Technologies, the United States-based data analytics software company, to accelerate enterprise AI transformation (AX) deployments in Korea. The agreement was signed on the 11th local time in the United States, ahead

A North Korea–China international passenger train resumed bidirectional service on the 12th, six years after it was halted in January 2020 because of COVID-19 border closures. The revival, highlighted by a photo of a train crossing the Yalu River bridge, signals a move toward normalizing people-to-people exchanges that had