Rather than restore the name of Gen. Robert E. Lee, the Confederate commander who defended slavery, the Army found Pvt. Fitz Lee, who was Black and fought in the Spanish-American War.

With all the ballots counted, Mr Lee won 49.42 per cent of the nearly 35 million votes cast. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Lee Jae-myung, the presidential candidate for South Korea's Democratic Party, gestures as he greets his supporters in front of the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, June 4, 2025.

South Korean voters elected liberal Lee Jae-myung as president, defeating conservative Kim Moon-soo amid concerns over international relations with the U.S., China and North Korea.

A liberal lawyer was elected president of South Korea on Tuesday, ending months of political instability in the key U.S. ally that began with a botched declaration of martial law. Lee Jae-myung ...

Lee’s approval ratings had steadily reached around 50 percent, demonstrating the consolidation of his support base who did not want to miss the opportunity to make him the president of South Korea.

Lee Jae-myung’s hardscrabble path to the South Korean presidency mirrors his country’s stratospheric rise from grinding poverty to one of the world’s leading economies. When Lee, a scandal ...

S ix months of turmoil in South Korea are over. Lee Jae-myung of the liberal Democratic Party won a commanding victory, with 49.4% of the vote, in the snap presidential elections held on June 3rd ...

Opposition leader Lee Jae-myung was sworn in as South Korea’s next president on Wednesday following a dramatic snap election six months after the country’s previous leader declared martial law ...

South Korea's liberal party candidate, Lee Jae-myung, was elected president in Tuesday's snap election, six months to the day after he evaded military cordons to vote against a shock martial law ...

Lee Jae-myung, the liberal South Korean politician elected on Tuesday as the country's next leader, overcame a knife attack, martial law and criminal charges on his unexpected path to the presidency.

Hugh Jackman's estranged wife Deborra-Lee Furness has officially filed for divorce almost two years after their split, and also broke her silence in a very lengthy statement.