People holding placards that read "Democracy Won" attend a rally to celebrate the expulsio...
South Korea on Tuesday set June 3 for a snap presidential election, triggered by last week's removal from office of impeached leader Yoon Suk-yeol. "The government intends to designate June 3 as the 21st presidential election day," Acting President Han Duck-soo told a cabinet meeting. South Korean opposition leader Lee Jae-myung and Han Dong-hoon, a former leader of South Korea's ruling People Power Party have already declared their bids for the presidency on Thursday.
China’s Shenzhou-19 crew to return around May 1
China’s Shenzhou-19 crew plans to return to Earth around May 1, China Media Group reported on Monday. The crew – Cai Xuzhe, Song Lingdong and Wang Haoze – has stayed in the China Space Station for over 150 days, carrying out a series of scientific experiments and tests. The Shenzhou-19 crewed spaceship, atop a Long March-2F carrier rocket, was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on October 30, 2024.
Volcano erupts in central Philippines
An explosive eruption rocked Mount Kanlaon in central Philippines on Tuesday morning, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said. "An explosive eruption occurred at the summit vent of Kanlaon that began at 5:51 a.m. on Tuesday," Ma. Antonia Bornas, the institute's volcano monitoring and eruption prediction division chief, said in a radio interview. In an advisory, the institute said the eruption "is producing a voluminous bent plume approximately 4,000 meters tall drifting southwest.” "Pyroclastic density currents descended the slopes on the general southern edifice," the institute added. The institute and netizens posted videos of the erupting volcano spewing a voluminous plume.
