News Headlines - 10 March 2017

▽South Korean court confirms impeachment of President Park - Channel NewsAsia

South Korea's highest court voted unanimously to confirm the impeachment of scandal-hit President Park Geun Hye on Friday (Mar 10). Prime Minister Hwang Kyo Ahn was appointed acting president and will remain in that post until the election to select Park's replacement, which will be held within 60 days.

▽Japan to withdraw troops from South Sudan - UPI.com

The deployment of Tokyo's self-defense forces to the conflict zone, which allowed Japanese troops for the first time to engage in armed combat during "joint protection" of camps, will come to a close because conditions in the country's capital are now "relatively stable," Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said, according to The Japan Times.

▽Japan readies welcome wagon for 1,000-strong Saudi contingent：The Asahi Shimbun

The king's entourage, which arrives in Japan on March 12, is so huge that not even government officials who are serving as hosts have an accurate count of how many are coming... Salman, 81, who will stay in Japan until March 15, plans to meet with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on March 13.

▽'Ghost in the Shell' Actors Will Dub Over Scarlett Johansson | Inverse

The original voice actors for the Ghost in the Shell anime feature will return to dub at least three of the main characters in the upcoming American film — Major, Batou, and Togusa — for Japanese-speaking audiences. Atsuko Tanaka will voice Scarlett Johansson’s Major, Akio Otsuka will voice Pilou Asbæk’s Batou, and Koichi Yamadera will voice Chin Han’s Togusa

▽Swiss man accused of abusing more than 80 boys in Thailand - The Local

The unnamed man is accused of taking thousands of pornographic pictures of the boys, molesting some of them and pushing some into prostitution, prosecutors in the western Swiss canton of Fribourg said in a statement. The abuse is alleged to have taken place since 2001.