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South Koreans to Vote June 3 to Replace Impeached President
April 8, 2025
Voters in South Korea will go to the polls on June 3 to elect a new president. Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, also the acting president, made the announcement, saying that election day would be a temporary public holiday in order to ensure that people can vote. The post of president is vacant at the moment because the previous occupant, Yoon Suk Yeol (right), declared martial law in late 2024, in an attempt to forestall parliamentary action against him. Yoon, a former prosecutor general, had claimed that opposition forces, perhaps aided by rival North Korea, were interfering with government business.

Twin Statues Found Intact at Pompeii
April 4, 2025
Archaeologists working at Pompeii have found a pair of nearly life-size statues depicting people. The pair are of a man and a woman, standing side by side. The male figure is relatively intact; the female figure has a slight break in the neck. The archaeologists said that the statues might depict a husband and wife or, equally possible, a mother and son. An inscription identifying the people, if there ever was any, has not survived. The female figure, shown wearing earrings, bracelets, and rings, is a bit taller than the male figure and is shown carrying laurel leaves, which is often a sign of a priestess. As well, the female figure is shown wearing a crescent moon amulet known as a lunula, which was associated with Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture and fertility. If that was the case, the experts said, then the man depicted was probably a priest.