The ethics committee of South Korea's main opposition People Power Party (PPP) will meet this week to consider disciplinary actions against three lawmakers—Cho Kyoung-tae, Jin Jong-oh, and Kwon Young-jin—over alleged misconduct, including attempts to block a deputy speaker election, supporting an independent candidate, and using violence.
The Vatican has excommunicated four bishops and two other bishops from the breakaway Society of Saint Pius X (SPPX) for consecrating bishops without papal approval. The group's formal followers are also declared schismatic and excommunicated.
The Vatican has imposed excommunication and schism on the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) and its formal adherents after the group consecrated four bishops in Switzerland without papal authorization, annulling past concessions.
A South Korean university has barred Professor B from teaching and student guidance duties after an investigation into comments made in class, including a statement about women and prostitution, deemed to infringe on students' dignity.
Two Sri Lanka Under-19 cricketers have been arrested for allegedly filming women while they were bathing in a hotel in Narahenpita, Colombo. The women staying at the hotel complained that they were being filmed on mobile phones inside their bathrooms. Both players have been released on personal bail of 500,000 LKR (approximately $1,564) and are scheduled to appear in court on May 25. Police are investigating whether any of the alleged videos were shared online. Sri Lanka Cricket has not yet announced any disciplinary action.
