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A trio of South Korean companies have made a significant, multibillion-dollar pitch to Canada, promising to quickly replace the navy’s aging submarines, deliver more firepower to the army and help revitalize the country’s defence industrial base. A detailed overview of the unsolicited proposals, which were delivered to the federal government …

South Korean prosecutors indicted former liberal president Moon Jae-in on bribery charges on Thursday, saying that a budget airline gave his son-in-law a lucrative no-show job during Moon’s term in office.  Moon’s indictment adds him to a long list of South Korean leaders who have faced trials or scandals at …

Three tourists were among four people who died when a cable car crashed south of Naples, Italy, including a British and an Israeli woman, an Italian official said Friday. Only two of the three foreign victims have been identified since the accident on Thursday, said Marco De Rosa, the spokesperson …

The reception hall at Korean Aerospace Industries Ltd. is, in many respects, every plane and helicopter lover’s dream. Filled with model aircraft, there’s one in particular that stands out. At first glance, you’d be forgiven for confusing it for the now politically infamous — at least in Canadian terms — …

South Korean adoption agencies sent children abroad like “luggage” for decades, labelling some as orphans when they had parents and sending alternative babies when infants had died before heading overseas, a truth commission said on Wednesday. After a two-year inquiry, South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which was empowered by the …

Yanchan Rajmohan, known professionally as Yanchan Produced, is on cloud nine. “It feels like a dream come true,” he said in an interview with CBC News about his recent Juno nomination. While an awards nod is a big deal to most artists, to Yanchan, this recognition has an added aspect. He is …

Wildfires raging in South Korea doubled in size on Thursday from a day earlier, as authorities called the blazes the country’s worst natural fire disaster with at least 28 people killed and historic temples incinerated. More than 33,000 hectares has been charred or were still burning in the largest of …

World Helicopters dumped water over burning forests in South Korea on Thursday as fire crews struggled to contain the country’s worst-ever wildfires, which have killed at least 28 people, forced at least 37,000 to flee their homes and destroyed more than 300 structures. More than 33,000 hectares charred or still …

The detention of South Sudan’s First Vice-President Riek Machar under house arrest has effectively collapsed the peace deal that ended the 2013-2018 civil war, his party said on Thursday. The UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan called for restraint, saying the country stood on the brink of relapsing into widespread conflict. “This will not only …

The death toll in the wildfires raging across South Korea’s southeastern region rose to 24, and the pilot of a firefighting helicopter was killed when the aircraft crashed on Wednesday, as the country battles some of its worst forest fires in decades. The deadly wildfires have spread rapidly and forced …