The owner of the acclaimed establishment avoids jail but is made to pay 15 million won (£8,144; $10,965).
BBC News – World Prosecutors sought jail term for chief executive of Evett after insects not approved for consumption were on menu A South Korean court has fined the operator of one of Seoul’s most celebrated restaurants and its chief executive for serving a dessert topped with ants, an insect not approved for consumption under local food safety law. The operator of Evett, a two-Michelin-star restaurant in the affluent Gangnam distr…
BBC News – World Prosecutors sought jail term for chief executive of Evett after insects not approved for consumption were on menu A South Korean court has fined the operator of one of Seoul’s most celebrated restaurants and its chief executive for serving a dessert topped with ants, an insect not approved for consumption under local food safety law. The operator of Evett, a two-Michelin-star restaurant in the affluent Gangnam distr…
NYTimes – US Death row inmate Christa Pike is conscious and speaking in hospital after Tennessee's failed lethal injection execution last week, her lawyers say. She received two doses of the drug but survived and was taken from the execution chamber by ambulance. She remains hospitalised with severe arm injuries; her lawyers are seeking to commute her sentence to life without parole.
NYTimes – World At a campaign rally in Nebraska, President Donald Trump said Iran could "take out" Los Angeles and San Diego, drawing cheers and later bipartisan criticism. A White House official said the remarks were taken out of context. California Governor Gavin Newsom called Trump "dangerous and deranged," while Republican congressional candidate Jim Desmond rebuked the suggestion.
NPR – World Belgian-born physicist Francis Halzen, 82, has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work detecting high-energy neutrinos from deep space. His research, which began in the 1980s, led to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole. The Nobel committee described neutrinos as "ghostly messages from space." Halzen is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
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