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How Bodyguards Are Keeping South Korea’s President Yoon From Detention

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Choe Sang-Hun
President Yoon Suk Yeol’s security service stopped an effort to detain him on insurrection charges and has vowed to do so again. Its roots are in the era of military dictatorships.

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Security personnel at the Seoul residence of Yoon Suk Yeol, the suspended president of South Korea. Mr. Yoon was impeached after a short-lived martial law declaration last month.

In Tibet, Earthquake Survivors Face Freezing Weather Conditions

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Tiffany May
Rescuers rushed to distribute blankets and tents to those displaced by the magnitude-7.1 quake that struck Tibetan villages near Nepal, toppling over 3,000 homes.

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Rescue workers conducting search and rescue for survivors in the aftermath of an earthquake in Changsuo Township of Dingri County in Tibet on Tuesday.

Thandiswa Mazwai Is the Voice of South Africa’s First Post-Apartheid Generation

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Lynsey Chutel
Thandiswa Mazwai has sung of South Africa’s highs and lows since the country became a multiracial democracy 30 years ago. “My calling is to sing the people’s joy, to sing the people’s sadness.”

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Thandiswa Mazwai performing in Midrand, South Africa, in September. Ms. Mazwai has used her mezzo-soprano voice to amplify South Africa’s struggles.

Meta to End Fact-Checking Program in Shift Ahead of Trump Term

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Mike Isaac and Theodore Schleifer
The social networking giant will stop using third-party fact checkers and instead rely on users to add notes to posts. President-elect Trump and his conservative allies said they were pleased.

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Since the election, Mark Zuckerberg and other Meta executives have moved swiftly to try to repair their strained relationships with conservatives.

Meta to End Fact-Checking Program in Shift Ahead of Trump Term

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Mike Isaac and Theodore Schleifer
The social networking giant will stop using third-party fact checkers and instead rely on users to add notes to posts. President-elect Trump and his conservative allies said they were pleased.

© Kenny Holston/The New York Times

Since the election, Mark Zuckerberg and other Meta executives have moved swiftly to try to repair their strained relationships with conservatives.

In Israeli Video, Detainee Says Hamas Operates Out of Gaza Hospital

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Ephrat Livni
Facing international condemnation and pressure to free the chief of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Israel released a brief interrogation video backing up its claim that militants used the hospital as a base.

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Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza who is now in Israeli detention, supervising the treatment of a Palestinian injured in an Israeli strike in November.

Trump Blurs Lines in $20 Billion Data Center Announcement and Other Deals

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Eric Lipton， Maggie Haberman and Alan Blinder
Even before the start of the new administration, there has been repeated blurring of lines between the federal government efforts and Trump family businesses.

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Steve Witkoff, an American real estate investor chosen as President-elect Donald J. Trump’s Middle East envoy, appeared alongside Mr. Trump at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday. Mr. Witkoff is in business with the Trump family through a new crypto company.

Man Charged in NYC Subway Burning Pleads Not Guilty and Says He Was Drunk

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Liam Stack
Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, confronted with video of the immolation of Debrina Kawam, told detectives he was blackout drunk at the time. He pleaded not guilty to murder on Tuesday.

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The attack took place at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue subway station. A video shows a man rising from a bench holding a shirt, but instead of smothering the flames, he appears to fan them.

House Passes ‘Laken Riley Act’ to Deport Unauthorized Immigrants Charged With Minor Crimes

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Karoun Demirjian
Forty-eight Democrats joined Republicans in supporting legislation that aims to deport more migrants charged with nonviolent crimes, a first salvo in a broader crackdown.

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The vote on Tuesday reflected how Republicans in Congress are using their power to revive and pass a raft of border security measures that died during the last Congress in the Democratic-controlled Senate.
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