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Santiago Peña was detained minutes after he was impeached by Congress, as protesters took to the streets demanding answers after the suspension of the Ueno bank

ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay — Ousted Paraguayan President Santiago Peñawas placed under house arrest Friday on suspicion of breach of trust and influence peddling, among other charges, shortly after the Senate removed him from office over the collapse of a government-linked bank that locked nearly half the country’s 6 million people out of their savings.

Santiago Peña’s rightwing administration had authorised Ueno Bank to drastically expand operations before collapse

A demonstrator holds a mock U.S. dollar bill depicting Paraguayan President Santiago Peña during a protest against the government and Ueno Bank, which Paraguay’s central bank seized amid a solvency crisis, in Asunción, Paraguay, Wednesday. Jorge Saenz/APhide caption

ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay –Paraguay President Santiago Peña resigns following bank collapse.

With mere hours left on Election Night before polling closes across America, traders on prediction market platform Polymarket are forecasting an 89% chance (as of 7 p.m. ET) that Democrats sweep and retake both the House of Representatives and the Senate. For context, Republicans enter the midterms with 218 of 435 House seats and 53…

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung is being issued a new passport after it was found that personal information on him as well as senior government officials and other individuals was visible on a subscription-based website for five months.

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South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has fallen victim to a highly sensitive data breach.

President Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday called for expanding skills-based training, providing financial support to small entrepreneurs and creating employment opportunities for young people to harness the country’s demographic dividend.