South Korea: chaotic situation surrounding the arrest of the deposed president. South Korea's anti-corruption services, which are investigating ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol, showed up at the former leader's home on Friday to arrest him, but were met with “for hours” to the resistance of the presidential security service, writes The Korea Herald. Just before 6 a.m. (French time), investigators announced that they had finally suspended the arrest attempt, under the eyes of hundreds of Mr. Yoon's supporters, massed in front of his residence. The deposed president, suspended in mid-December for his failed attempt to impose martial law on December 3, is being prosecuted for “insurrection and abuse of power” but calls the attempt to stop him“illegal”. The arrest warrant against him expires on Monday, specifies the Korean news site.
Explosion in Las Vegas: the driver of the Cybertruck committed suicide before the detonation. Police said Thursday that the driver of the Tesla Cybertruck that exploded Wednesday in front of the Trump hotel in Las Vegas, lightly injuring seven people, had “shot in the head seconds before the explosion”while he was driving the vehicle, writes the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The motivations of this 37-year-old man, presented as a member of the American army special forces, remain “unknown”. “We do not have information to say with certainty or suggest that this was motivated by any particular ideology”an FBI investigator said at a press conference. Federal police are still trying to determine “if the explosion was a terrorist act”possibly linked to the attack on New Orleans, but believes for the moment that it was a “isolated incident”specifies the daily.
Venezuela: Maduro offers $100,000 for the capture of opponent González Urrutia. Venezuelan authorities announced Thursday the granting of “$100,000 reward” for any information “allowing capture” of the opponent Edmundo González Urrutia, who claims victory in the last presidential election, reports The Country. Mr. González Urrutia, exiled in Spain, flew to Argentina on Thursday, where he is due to meet President Javier Milei on Saturday. The opposition and a large part of the international community consider the 75-year-old opponent as the real winner of last July's presidential election, officially won by outgoing President Nicolás Maduro, who never presented the minutes . Mr Maduro is due to be sworn in on January 10 for his third term, but Mr González Urrutia “has been challenging the Chavista regime for weeks by ensuring that he will return to his country to take office as president”specifies the Spanish daily.
