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SOUTH KOREA

Prosecutor seeks arrest warrant for ex-president

South Korea's special prosecutor asked a court on Tuesday to issue an arrest warrant for former president Yoon Suk-yeol, an investigator said, as a probe intensified over the ousted leader's botched bid to impose martial law. Yoon, who is already facing a criminal trial on insurrection charges for leading the martial law declaration, was arrested in January after resisting authorities trying to take him into custody, but was released after 52 days on technical grounds. The new warrant is on a charge of obstruction, a senior member of the special prosecutor's team of investigators said.

UNITED STATES

WhatsApp banned on House staffers' devices

Meta Platforms' WhatsApp messaging service has been banned on the devices of all US House of Representatives staffers, according to a memo sent out on Monday. The notice said the "Office of Cybersecurity has deemed WhatsApp a high risk to users due to the lack of transparency in how it protects user data, absence of stored data encryption, and potential security risks involved with its use". Meta disagreed with the move "in the strongest possible terms," a company spokesperson said, noting that the platform provides a higher level of security than the other approved apps.

COLOMBIA

Senator Miguel Uribe gets another surgery

Colombian Senator Miguel Uribe, who has been hospitalized since he was shot in the head earlier this month during a campaign event, was undergoing another surgery on Monday, at least his fourth, his wife said on social media. Uribe, 39, a potential presidential candidate from the right-wing opposition, was shot in Bogota on June 7 during a rally. He has undergone at least three other surgeries, including an emergency one for brain bleed, and has remained in critical condition.

Agencies via Xinhua