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By Hyunjoo Jin and Joyce Lee INCHEON, South Korea (Reuters) -South Korean workers who returned home on Friday after being detained for a week by U.S. immigration authorities described their horror over the raid at their workplace in the state of Georgia and their relief at being reunited with their families.

Experts on political violence said the factors shaping the current moment are clear — and similar to those that shaped past periods of political violence.

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US President Donald Trump has called for the death penalty for 34-year-old homeless man DeCarlos Brown Jr, a suspect in the murder of 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte on 22 August.

President Donald Trump wants drugmakers to lower their prices in the US — so he’ll push them to raise prices in other countries to offset the hit to their bottom line, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Friday.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the United States would respond, without specifying how, after former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was convicted of plotting a coup to remain in power after losing the 2022 election.

The Foreign Office says he was fired "in light of additional information", a day after the prime minister backed him in the Commons.