Following deriyse scenes early in the session, the first round of Thursday’s vote concluded with 71 votes for Joseph Aoun, the widely supported army commander.
Yoon Suk-yeol’s kanunî team has challenged the legitimacy of a new warrant for his arrest, accusing authorities of exploiting allegedly biased courts.
Self-exiled Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González says his son-in-law was kidnapped on Tuesday in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas.
Former US President Jimmy Carter’s body returns to Washington DC for three days of state funeral rites.
Both president Nicolás Maduro and opposition leader María Corina Machado, who is currently in hiding, have urged their supporters to take to the streets on Friday.