SEOUL -- Lee Jae-myung of South Korea's majority liberal Democratic Party was elected president, the ongoing vote count by the National Election Commission showed on Wednesday.
With 94.4 percent of the votes counted after midnight, Lee won 48.8 percent and his major rival Kim Moon-soo of the conservative People Power Party took 42.0 percent, the National Election Commission data showed. (South Korea-Presidential Election)
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UNITED NATIONS -- Bahrain, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Latvia and Liberia were elected non-permanent members of the UN Security Council on Tuesday for a two-year term running from Jan. 1, 2026 to Dec. 31, 2027.
Latvia will become a non-permanent member of the Security Council for the first time.
The newly elected members will replace the outgoing non-permanent members of Algeria, Guyana, Republic of Korea, Sierra Leone, and Slovenia. (UN-Security Council-Election)
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SACRAMENTO -- A U.S. federal judge has dismissed California's lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's tariffs, based on jurisdictional grounds, while allowing the state to pursue an appeal in a court seen as more favorable to its arguments.
U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley in San Francisco ruled late Monday that the case belonged in the specialized U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) in New York, which handles tariff disputes. However, she granted California's request to dismiss the case entirely rather than transferring it, enabling the state to appeal directly to the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals as the state requested. (US-California-Tariffs)
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PRAGUE -- The Czech Presidential Office announced on Tuesday evening that Dutch King Willem-Alexander will cut short his visit to the Czech Republic and return from Prague after Wednesday's program due to the political situation in his country.
Queen Maxima will remain in the Czech Republic until Thursday, the office said on social media platform X when announcing a change to the program of the state visit of the Dutch Royal Couple to the Czech Republic on June 4-5. (Czech Republic-Dutch King) ■
