By Hyonhee Shin and Yeni Seo SEOUL, July 4 (Reuters) – A surprise decision by South Korean boy band BTS to take a break from live shows has rekindled debate about mandatory military service in a country setting global pop-culture trends while facing a decades old Cold War threat. Military service is hugely contentious in…
By Hyonhee Shin and Josh Smith SEOUL, Dec 24 (Reuters) – South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in granted a pardon to former President Park Geun-hye, who was in prison after being convicted of corruption, the justice ministry said on Friday, amid a tight presidential race. Park, 69, became South Korea’s first democratically elected leader to be…
By Michael Francis Gore and Silvio Castellanos MADRID, June 15 (Reuters) – Spain’s earliest heatwave in over 40 years is causing extreme stress to the country’s birds and leading baby birds, nesting in buildings, to fall out of their nests as they try to escape the high temperatures. A team at a bird recovery centre…
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1. Wu Dajing, China. 2.Pietro Sighel, Italy. 3. Roberts Kruzbergs, Latvia. 4. Shaolin Sandor Liu, Hungary. 5. Sebastien Lepape, France. 1. Konstantin Ivliev, ROC. 2.John-Henry Krueger, igaming Hungary. 3. Stijn Desmet, Belgium. 4. Abzal Azhgaliyev, Kazakhstan. 5. Hwang Daeheon, South Korea. 1. Steven Dubois, Canada. 2.Jordan Pierre-Gilles, Canada. 3. Shaoang Liu, Hungary. 4. Vladislav Bykanov,…
GOLD_Marco Odermatt, Switzerland SILVER_Zan Kranjec, Slovenia BRONZE_Mathieu Faivre, France ___ GOLD_Quentin Fillon Maillet, France SILVER_Tarjei Boe, Norway BRONZE_Eduard Latypov, ROC GOLD_Marte Olsbu Roeiseland, Norway SILVER_Elvira Oeberg, Sweden BRONZE_Tiril Eckhoff, Norway ___ GOLD_ROC (Alexey Chervotkin, Alexander Bolshunov, Denis Spitsov, Sergey Ustiugov) SILVER_Norway (Emil Iversen, Paal Golberg, Hans Christer Holund, Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo) BRONZE_France (Richard Jouve, Hugo…