News Headlines - 14 January 2021
▽Ex-S.Korean president Park's 20-year term upheld | NHK WORLD
A 20-year prison term for former South Korean President Park Geun-hye for bribery and other crimes has been finalized.
The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed an appeal by prosecutors and upheld the sentence handed down by the Seoul High Court in July last year... She was accused of taking large amounts of bribes from the Samsung Group, the country's largest conglomerate, the intelligence agency and others.
▽Toyota reaches record $180M settlement for Clean Air Act violations - UPI.com
Toyota reached a $180 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice and Environmental Protection Agency over violations of the Clean Air Act on Thursday.
The civil penalty is the largest for any violation of the EPA's emission reporting requirements, coming immediately after Toyota was charged with violating parts of the Clean Air Act requiring manufacturers to report potential defects and recalls affecting vehicle components designed to control emissions.
▽USJ to Delay Opening of Nintendo Attraction Area Again - JIJI PRESS
The Universal Studios Japan movie theme park will again postpone the opening of a new attraction area featuring popular video games of Nintendo Co. <7974>, its operator, USJ LLC, said Thursday.
The Super Nintendo World area in the theme park in the western Japan city of Osaka was initially slated to open in summer 2020. But the opening was put off to Feb. 4 due to the novel coronavirus epidemic.
▽Trump has told staff not to pay Rudy Giuliani over irritation at being impeached again - CNNPolitics
President Donald Trump, irritated at being impeached for a second time, has told people to stop paying Rudy Giuliani's legal fees, a person familiar with the matter tells CNN, though aides were not clear if the President was serious about his instructions given he's lashing out at nearly everyone after the day's events.
Belgian rioters attacked the king's car with the monarch inside in violent unrest in Brussels over the death of a black man in police custody who was arrested for breaking the country's strict coronavirus rules.
King Phillipe was travelling to the Palace of Laeken, his official residence, as protesters began to batter his BMW with projectiles. The vehicle quickly sped off guarded by the king's security detail.
More than 500 protesters, some of them holding Black Lives Matter signs, gathered in Belgium's capital on Wednesday following the death of the 23-year-old Ibrahima Barrie.
