Seoul / AFP A salvage firm on Sunday began a difficult and costly operation to raise a sunken South Korean ferry which capsized at sea more than two years ago in a disaster that shocked and enraged the country. The Sewol was carrying 476 people when it sank off the southwestern island of Jindo in April 2014, with the ...

  Bloomberg Donald Trump returned to the combative form that helped him win the US Republican presidential nomination, slamming Democrats, calling for his party to unite behind him, and responding to Mitt Romney’s suggestion that his election could lead to “trickle-down racism.” At a rallyin Tampa, Florida, the presumptive Republican nominee termed himself “the least racist person that you have ...

  Bolivia / AFP Bolivia has arrested five people for allegedly coaching a boy to pretend he was President Evo Morales’ son, and paying his family, in a soap opera-style scandal that has riveted the country, officials said on Saturday. “The boy was told his entire education would be paid for, that he would be given a plot of land, ...