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News18
an hour ago
- Politics
- News18
Israel Agrees to US Ceasefire Deal, Hamas Demands Guarantees, Says Gaza War Must First Halt Fully
More from world Kim Inspects Artillery, Russia Gives Pantsir Air Defense To North Korea For Aiding War On Ukraine Explosive Intel Says Iran 'Seeking Nuclear Weapon', Saudi Warns 'Take Offer Or Risk Israeli Strikes" IDF Soldiers Injured In RPG Attack, Israel Orders North Gaza Evacuation; Macron Seeks More Sanctions Macron Warns Trump Of 'US Credibility Test' As Russia Rejects Ceasefire, Intensifies War In Ukraine State-Owned Media Air Kim's Latest Bid To Strengthen Military
News18
an hour ago
- Politics
- News18
IDF Soldiers Injured In RPG Attack, Israel Orders North Gaza Evacuation; Macron Seeks More Sanctions
More from world Kim Inspects Artillery, Russia Gives Pantsir Air Defense To North Korea For Aiding War On Ukraine Explosive Intel Says Iran 'Seeking Nuclear Weapon', Saudi Warns 'Take Offer Or Risk Israeli Strikes" Macron Warns Trump Of 'US Credibility Test' As Russia Rejects Ceasefire, Intensifies War In Ukraine State-Owned Media Air Kim's Latest Bid To Strengthen Military
Hans India
2 hours ago
- Politics
- Hans India
South Korea: Election worker apprehended after allegedly casting vote on husband's behalf
Seoul: An election worker in South Korea was apprehended this week after allegedly casting an early vote for the June 3 presidential election on her husband's behalf, police said on Friday. The woman was identified as a contract employee for Seoul's Gangnam district office who was appointed by the National Election Commission (NEC) to help check voters' IDs during the two-day early voting on Thursday and Friday, according to Suseo Police Station. Police detained the woman without a warrant Thursday, about half an hour after they received a call that someone had voted twice at a polling station in Gangnam's Daechi 2-dong neighbourhood. She is being questioned on suspicion of casting a ballot using her husband's ID before casting her own ballot several hours later. The woman reportedly admitted to all charges but refused to disclose a motive. Both the Gangnam district office and the NEC said they have relieved her of her duties. The NEC also filed a complaint against the woman with the police while requesting an investigation into her husband's possible involvement. "A vote by proxy by an election worker who should strictly and fairly oversee the presidential election is a very serious election crime that brutally tramples on the people's trust in election administration," the commission said. The woman's ballots cannot be nullified as they have already been placed inside ballot boxes, a commission official said. The vote count will proceed normally. In light of this and other incidents, the conservative People Power Party (PPP) on Friday lambasted the poor management in early voting elections, demanding the chief of the election watchdog apologise, Yonhap news agency reported. Kim Moon-soo, the party's presidential candidate, denounced the NEC after meeting with reporters in Jecheon, North Chungcheong Province, saying the institution must "wake up" and undergo a "sweeping overhaul." "Why is the NEC still not fixing these problems, after going through many similar cases in the past, like the basket election incident?" he asked, referring to the controversy over the transportation of ballot papers from Covid-19 patients in plastic baskets during the early voting for the 2022 presidential election. Rep. Kim Yong-tae, the party's interim leader, also blamed the NEC for its inadequate election management while referring to a series of incidents that took place during the early voting. Voters reportedly went out to eat while carrying ballot papers in Sinchon, western Seoul, on Thursday. "We will review revising the Public Official Election Act to have election officials sign the early-voting ballot papers," Kim said. He also demanded a comprehensive inspection and overhaul of all early-voting sites, and said those responsible for the incidents must be duly reprimanded. "The Chairman of the NEC should stand before the people himself and sincerely apologise," Kim added. Rep. Shin Dong-uk, the PPP's spokesperson, said the liberal Democratic Party (DP) has not been sufficiently critical of the NEC. "The DP has collected a lot of votes in early voting and that party's silence is even more irresponsible (than the NEC's mishaps)," Shin said. "Is the DP the defender of a rigged election?" xd
Korea Herald
3 hours ago
- Politics
- Korea Herald
Election worker apprehended after allegedly casting vote on husband's behalf
An election worker was apprehended this week after allegedly casting an early vote for the June 3 presidential election on her husband's behalf, police said Friday. The woman was identified as a contract employee for Seoul's Gangnam district office who was appointed by the National Election Commission (NEC) to help check voters' IDs during the two-day early voting Thursday and Friday, according to Suseo Police Station. Police detained the woman without a warrant Thursday, about half an hour after they received a call that someone had voted twice at a polling station in Gangnam's Daechi 2-dong neighborhood. She is being questioned on suspicion of casting a ballot using her husband's ID before casting her own ballot several hours later. The woman reportedly admitted to all charges but refused to disclose a motive. Both the Gangnam district office and the NEC said they have relieved her of her duties. The NEC also filed a complaint against the woman with the police while requesting an investigation into her husband's possible involvement. "A vote by proxy by an election worker who should strictly and fairly oversee the presidential election is a very serious election crime that brutally tramples on the people's trust in election administration," the commission said. The woman's ballots cannot be nullified as they have already been placed inside ballot boxes, a commission official said. The vote count will proceed normally. In light of this and other incidents, the conservative People Power Party (PPP) on Friday lambasted the poor management in early voting elections, demanding the chief of the election watchdog apologize. Kim Moon-soo, the party's presidential candidate, denounced the NEC after meeting with reporters in Jecheon, North Chungcheong Province, saying the institution must "wake up" and undergo a "sweeping overhaul." "Why is the NEC still not fixing these problems, after going through many similar cases in the past, like the basket election incident?" he asked, referring to the controversy over the transportation of ballot papers from COVID-19 patients in plastic baskets during the early voting for the 2022 presidential election. Rep. Kim Yong-tae, the party's interim leader, also blamed the NEC for its inadequate election management while referring to a series of incidents that took place during the early voting. Voters reportedly went out to eat while carrying ballot papers in Sinchon, western Seoul, on Thursday. "We will review revising the Public Official Election Act to have election officials sign the early-voting ballot papers," Kim said. He also demanded a comprehensive inspection and overhaul of all early-voting sites, and said those responsible for the incidents must be duly reprimanded. "The chairman of the NEC should stand before the people himself and sincerely apologize," Kim added. Rep. Shin Dong-uk, the PPP's spokesperson, said the liberal Democratic Party (DP) has not been sufficiently critical of the NEC. "The DP has collected a lot of votes in early voting and that party's silence is even more irresponsible (than the NEC's mishaps)," Shin said. "Is the DP the defender of a rigged election?" (Yonhap)
New York Post
4 hours ago
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Inside Eminem's drug-'fueled' recording of 'Kim' 25 years ago
True to one of his biggest hits, Eminem lost himself in the music. That's what happened during the making of 'Kim,' the hip-hop icon's most shocking song on his blockbuster album 'The Marshall Mathers LP,' which came out 25 years ago on May 23, 2000. The twisted murder fantasy about killing his then wife Kim Mathers became a horrorcore classic, with Eminem voicing both sides of the fatal blowup in graphic, gruesome detail. 9 Eminem shed his Slim Shady alter ego and revealed his true self on 'The Marshall Mathers LP.' Redferns Advertisement 9 'The Marshall Mathers LP' is the second-best-selling rap album of all time, after 'The Eminem Show.' Amazon 'Now bleed, bitch, bleed! Bleed, bitch, bleed! Bleed!' spits the enraged rapper after slitting Kim's throat. Producer Jeff Bass said that Eminem was 'f–king pissed off' about Kim — who wasn't letting him see their daughter Hailie at that time in their tumultuous relationship — when he came into the studio for one of the drug-'fueled' sessions. Advertisement 'So I came up with this very dark track, and then he literally went into the booth and started rapping about what we hear now on that record,' Bass told The Post. 'He came up with that probably in an hour.' And the recording session turned into a therapy session. 'He was able to get s—t off his chest that really bothered him personally,' said Bass. 'Obviously, he didn't kill anybody, but … there's some truth in some of it.' As the first song written for 'The Marshall Mathers LP' — which took its title from Eminem's real name — 'Kim' revealed a more personal side of the rapper who had adopted an alter ego for his previous album, 1999's 'The Slim Shady LP.' And while there were bigger hits such as 'The Real Slim Shady,' 'The Way I Am' and 'Stan' that helped propel his third studio LP to over 11 million sales in the US, the rawness of 'Kim' cut deep. 'It was not a radio record, but it was one of the most powerful records on this particular album,' said Bass. '[He] got to show the world another side of who he is.' Advertisement 9 'We would work in the studios for, like, 20 hours a day,' said producer Jeff Bass of recording 'The Marshall Mathers LP' with Eminem. Jeff Bass/Instagram 9 Eminem was married to Kim Mathers from 1999 to 2001 and then again for a few months in 2006. Getty Images But the track — which was a prequel to ' '97 Bonnie & Clyde' on 'The Slim Shady LP,' where Eminem and daughter Hailie dispose of Kim's corpse — scared Eminem's own label. 'Interscope [Records] called for a meeting, and they were like, 'What are we going to do with this? Now you're pushing the envelope,'' recalled Bass. 'And we're like, 'Well, it's freedom of speech, so we're allowed to say anything we want to say, right?'' Advertisement But 'Kim' was deemed too graphic to even be featured on the 'clean' version of 'The Marshall Mathers LP' — no amount of censoring was going to get rid of its murderous narrative. So the song was replaced by the 'South Park'-sampling 'The Kids' on the 'clean' version, leading many to buy that in addition to the explicit version in the days before streaming. 9 Eminem and longtime producer Dr. Dre won Best Rap Video at the 2000 VMAs for 'Forget About Dre.' FilmMagic, Inc 'Which is why I think it was so successful,' said Bass. 'It was brilliant.' But later in 2000, Kim sued Eminem for defamation over the song's lyrics, and they reached a settlement. 'Kim' was the third song that Eminem recorded about his ex-wife, who he was married to from 1999 to 2001 and then again in 2006 for only a few months. The first of those tunes was 'Searchin' ' on the rapper's 1996 indie debut 'Infinite,' which Bass also produced along with his brother Mark after they discovered Eminem in their hometown of Detroit. By the time they got to 'The Marshall Mathers LP,' they were in a nonstop groove. 9 Eminem performed at the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards at NYC's Radio City Music Hall. Getty Images 'We would work in the studios for, like, 20 hours a day, and we would just come up with song after song after song after song,' said Bass, who shared production duties with Dr. Dre, Mel-Man and the 45 King. 'We just would keep creating to see what flowed together well on an album.' Advertisement But in addition to losing themselves in the music, they were also losing themselves in drugs. 'We were doing lots of drugs,' said Bass. 'It fueled what we were coming up with … We hadn't admitted yet that we were drug addicts. So to us, this was normal, just getting high, going in the studio, writing all this music, recording the music. Opioids — that was the choice of drug.' 9 'In my mind, it's always a possibility,' said producer Jeff Bass of possibly working with Eminem again. Jeff Bass/Instagram Bass would continue to work with Em on 2002's 'The Eminem Show,' producing and co-writing the hits 'Without Me,' 'Cleanin' Out My Closet' and 'Superman.' Advertisement 'We still were doing drugs, we were still doing all kinds of stupid s–t, but, you know, had major success,' he said. Then Bass produced and co-wrote Eminem's No. 1 smash 'Lose Yourself,' from his movie '8 Mile,' which won an Oscar for Best Original Song. 9 Eminem joined the Dr. Dre-led halftime show at the 2022 Super Bowl. Getty Images 'It was the biggest thing that I probably ever wrote,' he said. 'For me, musically, that was my pinnacle.' Advertisement After Bass took a break from working with Eminem on 2004's 'Encore,' the pair reunited for 2009's 'Relapse,' which would be their last album together. 'We were high, and it felt like s–t was just falling apart, but that was the drugs,' said Bass. 'And we didn't have a falling-out or anything. It was just creative differences.' Eminem released 'The Marshall Mathers LP 2' in 2013, but like most sequels, it didn't quite live up to the original. Still, Bass said, 'there's real nice, shining moments on that album.' 9 Eminem performed 'Stan' with Elton John at the 2001 Grammy Awards, where he won three trophies. Getty Images Advertisement Although Bass hasn't talked to Eminem 'in probably 17 years,' he doesn't rule out working together again. 'In my mind, it's always a possibility,' he said. 'And the funny thing is, our studios here in [Ferndale] Michigan are literally across the street from each other.' But they will always share in the legacy of 'The Marshall Mathers LP,' which is the second-best-selling rap album of all time — after 'The Eminem Show' — and is widely considered to be the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer's greatest work. 'At the end of the day, you know, it's a piece of work that will just be here in perpetuity, forever,' said Bass. 'It's a piece of history, which is amazing to be a part of.'
