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South Korea's Constitutional Court Chief Justice Lee Jong-seok arrives at the Constitutional Court in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Court orders South Korea to specify plans to cut carbon emissions through 2049

By Kim Tong-hyung - Associated Press

Protesters attempt to storm Indonesia's parliament during a protest against controversial changes to election laws that could further enhance the political influence of outgoing President Joko Widodo, in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

Thousands of Indonesians attempt to storm parliament to protest changes to election law

By Dita Alangkara and Edna Tarigan - Associated Press

Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin talks to reporters during a press conference at Government house in Bangkok, Thailand after a court removed Srettha from office over an ethical violation Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Court orders Thai prime minister to step down over divisive appointment

By Richard S. Ehrlich - Special to The Washington Times

Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin looks at his watch during a press conference at Government house in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Thai Prime Minister Srettha is removed from office by a court order over an ethics violation

By Jintamas Saksornchai - Associated Press

Former leader of the Move Forward Party, Pita Limjaroenrat, center, leaves from the Constitutional Court that ordered the dissolution of the party in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Chatkla Samnaingjam)

Thai court dissolves progressive Move Forward Party, which won election but failed to take power

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Former South African President Jacob Zuma arrives at Orlando stadium in the township of Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa, for the launch of his newly formed uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party's manifesto Saturday, May 18, 2024. Zuma, who has turned his back on the African National Congress (ANC) he once led, will face South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, who replaced him as leader of the ANC in a bitter battle in the general elections later in May. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Who is Jacob Zuma, the former South African president disqualified from next week’s election?

By Mogomotsi Magome - Associated Press

Move Forward party leader Chaithawat Tulathon, right, flanked by its former leader Pita Limjaroenrat, talks to reporters during a news conference at parliament in Bangkok, Thailand, on Jan. 31, 2024. Thailand's Constitutional Court on Wednesday, April 3, said it has accepted the petition from the election body seeking a dissolution of the progressive party that captured the most seats from last year's election on the ground that they may have violated the constitution by proposing to amend a royal defamation law. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit, File)

Thailand’s Constitutional Court says it will rule on whether to dissolve popular Move Forward party

By Jintamas Saksornchai - Associated Press

People arrive to pay tribute to Turkey's founding father Mustafa Kemal Ataturk during the 85th anniversary of his death at Dolmabahce palace in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, Nov. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Erdogan backtracks after siding with court that defied top court’s ruling on lawmaker’s release

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Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court Anwar Usman presides over the hearing on a petition seeking to lower the minimum age of presidential and vice presidential candidates at the Constitutional Court in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, Oct. 16, 2023. Ethics council chief Jimly Asshiddiqie said in a verdict that the Constitutional Court’s Chief Justice Anwar Usman found guilty of making last-minute changes to election candidacy requirements that cleared way for ongoing President Joko Widodo’s eldest son, Gibran Rakabuming Raka, 36, to run for vice president in the election next year. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim, File)

Court panel removes Indonesia’s chief justice for ethical breach that benefited president’s son

By Fadlan Syam and Niniek Karmini - Associated Press

Srettha Thavisin, a real estate tycoon and advisor to the opposition Pheu Thai party, arrives at Pheu Thai Party headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand, on July 17, 2023. The Pheu Thai party has since cobbled up a coalition consisting of nine parties that together hold 238 seats in the lower house, still short of the majority it needs. Pheu Thai has said it will nominate estate tycoon Srettha Thavisin, as prime minister. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit, File)

Court clears the way for Thai Parliament to pick a new prime minister 3 months after elections

By Jintamas Saksornchai - Associated Press

Lawmakers gather during a meeting at the Parliament in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, Aug. 3, 2023. A parliamentary vote to select Thailand’s new prime minister expected on Friday, Aug. 4, was delayed again after a court put off a decision in a case involving the progressive party that won May's election, adding to growing uncertainty about when a new government can take office. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Selection of Thailand’s new prime minister delayed again, to await court decision on election winner

By Jintamas Saksornchai - Associated Press

Leader of Move Forward Party Pita Limjaroenrat arrives before the signing of a memorandum of understanding on attempt to form a coalition government between Move Forward Party and other parties during a news conference in Bangkok, Thailand on May 22, 2023. Thailand's state Election Commission announced Wednesday, July 12, it has concluded there is evidence that the top candidate to become the country's next prime minister, Move Forward party leader Pita Limjaroenrat, has violated election law, and has referred his case to the Constitutional Court for a ruling. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit, File)

Thailand’s Election Commission says a reformist candidate for prime minister may have broken the law

By Jinatamas Saksornchai and Grand Peck - Associated Press

An anti-government protester climb on car beside a poster of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022. Thailand's Constitutional Court ruled Wednesday that Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha must suspend his active duties while the court decides whether he has overstayed his legal term in office. The poster reads &quot;Time is over.&quot; (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

High court ‘suspends’ coup leader Prayuth in unusual move

By Richard S. Ehrlich - Special to The Washington Times

In this Monday, July 19, 2021, file frame grab provided by South Africa Judiciary, former South Africa President Jacob Zuma, appears on a screen virtually from the correctional service facility Estcourt, in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, where his corruption trial resumed. Zuma has been admitted to the hospital for observation at a hospital outside the Estcourt Correctional Center where he is currently serving a 15-month jail sentence, the government announced on Friday, Aug. 6 2021. (South Africa Judiciary via AP)

South Africa’s jailed ex-President Jacob Zuma in hospital

By Mogomotsi Magome - Associated Press

Ukraine’s president dismisses head of Constitutional Court

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