Seoul / AFP South Korea’s ruling conservative party officially split Tuesday over the impeachment of scandal-hit President Park Geun-Hye, threatening to complicate presidential elections that could be held as soon as March. A group of 29 lawmakers left the ruling Saenuri Party, arguing that its leadership refuses to embrace reforms despite the political crisis fuelled by the corruption scandal that …

  Seoul / AFP North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un is planning a “prime time” nuclear weapons push in 2017 to take advantage of leadership transitions in South Korea and the United States, a high-ranking defector said on Tuesday. In his first press conference since fleeing his post as North Korea’s deputy ambassador to Britain in August, Thae Yong-Ho said Kim …

  Montevideo / AFP A cheap flight from Paris to Madrid will set you back about $100. But it costs six times that to cover the same distance in Latin America, where low-cost airlines are only just taking off. Latin America has long lured travellers with its history, music and natural beauty spanning from Mexico’s deserts to the Amazon rainforest …