[Newsmaker] COVID-19 cases top 50,000 in S. Korea amid worsening pandemic
A medical worker collects a specimen from a woman for COVID-19 testing at a temporary screening station in central Seoul on Sunday. (Yonhap)South Korea's...
US says will ‘react’ if Iran seeks to avenge Soleimani killing
WASHINGTON - Washington is "prepared to react" if Tehran launches an attack to mark the first anniversary of the killing of powerful Iranian General...
Raising distancing rules to top level should remain as government’s ‘final...
Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun speaks during a government meeting of top officials in charge of dealing with the pandemic at the Seoul City Hall...
Atheists to save historic wooden German church plank by plank
STIEGE (GERMANY) - Ask Hans Powalla if he is a believer and the immediate response is a firm "no".Yet he and other villagers in...
[Herald Interview] ‘I’ve found peace,’ says man exonerated after 31 years
Yun speaks to The Korea Herald at a home for ex-convicts in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province, Saturday. (Kim Arin/The Korea Herald)CHEONGJU, North Chungcheong Province...
Biden introduces environment team to tackle ‘existential threat’
WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden on Saturday introduced key members of his environmental team and said his administration would make the fight against global...
N. Korea’s Kangson facility may not be uranium enrichment plant: Heinonen
This handout satellite image taken on Feb. 21 and released to AFP by Pleiades, Cnes 2019, Distribution Airbus DS on Feb. 28 shows the...
Trump says cyberattack ‘under control,’ plays down Russian role
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Saturday downplayed a massive cyberattack on US government agencies, declaring it "under control" and undercutting the assessment by his...
Daily virus cases above 1,000 for 4th day, concerns rise over...
COVID-19 testing center (Yonhap)South Korea's daily new coronavirus cases topped the 1,000 mark for the fourth consecutive day Saturday on continued cluster infections nationwide,...
France charges Epstein ex-associate for sex crimes
PARIS: French prosecutors said Saturday they had charged and imprisoned a former close associate of disgraced American billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, the prominent French modelling...
