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South Korea’s unrepentant president clings on; markets surge, and more
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Yoon Suk Yeol defended his short-lived martial law declaration last week, vowing “to fight till the end”. The tech-heavy Nasdaq stockmarket index breached the 20,000 mark for the first time as the share prices of Alphabet, Meta and Tesla closed at record highs.
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