Assembly approves motion days after parliament stripped President Yoon Suk Yeol of his powers over martial law order

South Korea’s opposition-controlled National Assembly has voted to impeach the country’s acting leader, Han Duck-soo.

The assembly approved the impeachment motion in a 192-0 vote on Friday. Governing party lawmakers boycotted the vote.

Han, the No 2 official in South Korea, has been the caretaker leader after President Yoon Suk Yeol was impeached by the assembly over his short-lived imposition of martial law this month.

Han’s impeachment further deepens South Korea’s political crisis and damages its international image.

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The Seleção had high hopes before heading to Switzerland but the ‘Battle of Berne’ quarter-final ended in a riot

The fallout from the defeat to Uruguay in the 1950 World Cup final overshadowed Brazil’s buildup to Switzerland. Some of the Brazilian press had labelled the national team “bottlers” and what many saw as their inability to perform in crunch games had become a preoccupation.

The pressure had eased a little after the Seleção went unbeaten on their way to clinching the Campeonato Pan-Americano in 1952 – Brazil’s first tournament win on foreign soil. But losing the deciding match to Paraguay in the Sul-Americano the following year raised more questions over the team’s temperament. Alfredo Moreira Júnior had replaced Flávio Costa as manager. Zezé, as he was known, made fewer than 50 appearances as a midfielder at Flamengo, Palestra Itália (now Palmeiras) and Botafogo but would go on to clock up a staggering 474 games as Fluminense coach over several spells from the 1950s to the early 70s – a record that still stands today. Zezé was famed for being one of the country’s early strategists and tried to bring some balance to the Brazil squad that had fired in an impressive 22 goals in the World Cup in 1950 but were suspect at the back. The coach toyed with zonal marking, which made Brazil’s defence a little tighter but reduced their firepower.

If you can’t be bothered with an LBD, opt for a classic that’s casual but shouts party pizzazz

There is a moment about halfway through Christmas dinner when the cracker hats have slipped askew, shoes been kicked off under the table and belts un-notched, that marks the official end of the season of Making An Effort. A frenzied month of putting on mascara in the work loos and shivering on the way home because you are wearing your fancy coat instead of your warm one is over, up in flames along with the Christmas pudding brandy. Time to breathe out, shift into a lower gear, adjust to the sacred interlude of cheese and telly, half-eaten chocolate reindeers and gap-toothed jigsaws that is Twixmas.

So it can feel a little tricky, a few days later, to go full jazz-hands for New Year’s Eve. But that’s what we are doing.

The global No 1, fresh from victory in the Champions Tour, faces elite US opposition and a star-studded field aiming to stop him from winning the titles for the third year in a row

Magnus Carlsen, the global No 1, stars on Wall Street this weekend as the Norwegian, 34, defends his World Rapid and Blitz crowns in New York against a host of ambitious US and international challengers.

The field of 182 for the World Rapid/Blitz includes 30 Americans and the USA’s world Nos 2 and 3, Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura, are sure to be prominent, with France’s Alireza Firouzja, Uzbekistan’s Nodirbek Abdusattorov, and India’s Arjun Erigaisi leading the new generation. China has the top three seeds in the Women’s World Rapid/Blitz, which has 113 entries. The total prize fund is $1m for the open Rapid and Blitz, with $428,500 for the two women’s events.

The director of the latest movie in the bloodsucker tradition explains why he went back to the Transylvanian source for his version of one of cinema’s enduring adaptations

We are all drawn to archetypal stories. Fairytales, folktales, fables, myths: we tell them over and over again because they always have meaning in our lives. We can always see reflections of ourselves in Hansel and Gretel, Oedipus and King Lear. They can mean different things at different stages of our lives and be interpreted in different ways by individuals sitting in the same audience.

Bram Stoker’s Dracula is among them. It one of the most influential novels of the turn of the last century and, along with the stories of Sherlock Holmes and Jesus Christ, among the most adapted works in cinema history.

If reliable brands can offer affordable injectables, customers won’t need to look for dubious alternatives

Every couple of years, I’m invited on to some radio show on the implicit understanding that as a Guardian beauty columnist, I’ll sound suitably appalled and outraged by the latest opening of a high street aesthetic clinic chain. Well, I’m not.

I positively welcome the democratisation of Botox. Anyone thinking that these more affordable, more accessible aesthetic clinics are pushing hitherto unsullied damsels towards the needle are wrong. That particular ship has long since sailed.

Reform would have you believe that multiculturalism is an act of exclusion. In fact, the opposite is the case

As the dust settled on last summer’s English riots , I found myself taking part in a radio discussion on the question: has multiculturalism failed? It was a depressing response to events that were themselves deeply depressing: an all-too-vivid reminder of how acute Britain’s problems with racism and Islamophobia continue to be. Yet the radio discussion also showed how multiculturalism acts as a scapegoat when it comes to concerns about issues such as immigration and community cohesion. For decades now, multiculturalism has functioned as Britain’s bogeyman.

There was opposition to the term almost as soon as it began to gain traction in the late 1970s and 80s. Initially, multiculturalism was associated with policies that some local councils introduced to address inequalities in education. What this meant in practice was things such as an expanded religious education curriculum, the provision of halal meat options for Muslim schoolchildren, and the distribution of information about a child’s schooling in their parents’ first language.

Kieran Connell is a writer and historian at Queen’s University Belfast

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