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Key ministers have resigned and many agencies are in crisis control mode.

Samsung Electronics Chairman Jay Y. Lee was found not guilty of accounting fraud and stock manipulation by a Seoul court.

Justice Minister Han Dong Hoon said the business leader was needed to help overcome a "national economic crisis".

Park's predecessor Lee Myung-bak, who is also imprisoned on corruption charges, however, was not pardoned.

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The Seoul High Court found Lee guilty of bribery, embezzlement and concealment of criminal proceeds worth about $7.8 million.

South Koreas Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a 20-year prison term for former President Park Geun-hye over bribery and other crimes.

A South Korean appeals court set Samsung Group heir Jay Y. Lee free after nearly a year of detention, suspending his 5-year jail term after he was convicted of bribing the country's former president.

Park is standing trial accused of bribery, abuse of power and coercion, having been forced to step down in March after parliament voted to impeach her at the end of 2016.

Lee had paid bribes in anticipation of favors from then president Park Geun-hye, according to a landmark ruling by a Seoul court, which also found him guilty of hiding assets abroad.

Lee has been in detention since February on trial for charges ranging from embezzlement to perjury, in a scandal that gripped the country for months and led to the ouster of Park Geun-hye.

Chung Hyun-back visited the House of Sharing for her first official activity, vowing to set up the museum to remember "comfort women" victims.

North Korea said on Wednesday it has issued a standing order for the execution of former South Korean President Park Geun-hye and her spy chief.

Prosecutors had demanded a seven-year jail term for Choi Soon-sil on charges of obstruction of business and links to the former president in order to force a university to give her daughter favours.

South Korea's new liberal President Moon Jae-in was sworn in on Wednesday and vowed to immediately tackle the difficult tasks of addressing North Korea's advancing nuclear ambitions.

Astronomers find three layers on a scorching gas planet orbiting a star larger and hotter than the sun.

According to JBPM, members of the public at the scene took initial action to rescue the victim before the fire brigade arrived.

Gordon Ramsay says about 477 Japanese cat models called maneki-neko were stolen from his Lucky Cat 22 Bishopsgate restaurant.

So far, 20 prosecution witnesses, including the two children, have been called for this trial, according to the Deputy Public Prosecutor.

Emmanuel Macron says showing any weakness to Russia's Vladimir Putin would make it harder to deal with China and Iran.

Netanyahu accuse Hamas of acting "in an unspeakably cynical manner" by placing body of a Gaza woman in the coffin instead of Shiri Bibas.

The US is a co-chair along with Malaysia of a working group on climate mitigation, or ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The group hopes Tesla will invest strategically, believing it's interested in acquiring Nissan's US plants, the report says.

The children have been handed over to their families on bond with conditions by the court.

The move will eliminate roughly 6% of the agency's workforce in the midst of the busy tax-filing season.