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Top war-crimes court issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu and others in Israel-Hamas fighting
Top war-crimes court issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu and others in Israel-Hamas fighting
A relative of Vladimir Putin has accidentally let slip secret Kremlin data that reveals Russia’s losses in its war in Ukraine.
Ahn Gwi-ryeong faced off with armed soldiers who were sent to stop lawmakers from entering parliament in Seoul.
The President and his wife have been at the centre of a series of scandals prior to last night’s attempted coup
Yoon Suk Yeol, South Korea’s president, declared martial law on Tuesday, vowing to eliminate “anti-state forces” that he said threatened to “ruin” the nation.
The UK's chief of defense staff said Israeli F-35s took out "nearly the entirety" of Iran's air defenses in a single mission.
Bill Clinton expressed public misgivings about Joe Biden’s handling of his son’s pardon Wednesday–as he delivered a blunt assessment of why Democrats lost the election. “I wish he hadn’t said he wasn’t going to do it. It does weaken his case,” Clinton said of Biden’s repeated pledges not to pardon his son, which he reversed on Sunday night with a sweeping use of the presidential pardon power. Clinton, the 42nd president, was speaking in Manhattan at The New York Times' Dealbook event, the first
Blanket precautionary pardons are being considered for some of Donald Trump’s biggest political foes, according to a new report. Biden officials have been looking at who Trump and his FBI director pick Kash Patel may go after once they take over the White House, the latest sign of concern from the Democratic Party ahead of his impending inauguration. Some of those who are being considered for the precautionary pardon include newly-elected Sen. Adam Schiff, a Democrat who served on Congress’s Jan
Washington on Tuesday condemned Beijing's new export restrictions on key dual-use materials - gallium, germanium and graphite - which are vital for military and civilian technologies, and pledged to take "necessary steps" to prevent further "coercive" measures. "We are still assessing the new controls, but we will take necessary steps to mitigate the impact and deter further PRC coercive actions", a US State Department representative said in an emailed response to questions, using the acronym fo
South Korea’s President Yoon Suk-yeol may give Donald Trump some bright ideas. Why not shut up the critics, in Congress and the media, by declaring martial law when the going gets tough? Trump is making so many zany appointments that he’s likely to bump into his first real obstacles when a few Republicans in the Senate have the guts to defy him and insist on full-dress hearings before approving all his picks. Trump, of course, would prefer the gimmick of “recess appointments,” enabling him to sn
China on Tuesday banned exports to the United States of the critical minerals gallium, germanium and antimony that have widespread military applications, escalating trade tensions the day after Washington's latest crackdown on China's chip sector. The curbs strengthen enforcement of existing limits on critical minerals exports that Beijing began rolling out last year, but apply only to the U.S. market, in the latest escalation of trade tensions between the world's two largest economies ahead of President-elect Donald Trump taking office next month.
President-elect Trump’s choice to lead the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced on Tuesday he is withdrawing from consideration just three days after Trump made his nomination known. Florida’s Hillsborough County Sherriff Chad Chronister said in a post on X Tuesday evening that he would instead tend to his current duties overseeing an area of the…
Many viewers said the same thing when a clip emerged of Trump's youngest son talking to Dana White and others.
STORY: Chinese companies should be wary of buying U.S. chips as they are "no longer safe".That was the warning from four of the country's top industry associations on Tuesday (Dec 3), who also said firms should buy locally instead.It was a rare coordinated response to Washington's curbs on Chinese chipmakers.The statements did not detail why U.S. chips were unsafe or unreliable.The warning arrives while after the two nations targeted each other's economies over the last few days.It has escalated tensions even before U.S. President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House in January.Trump has promised to impose heavy tariffs on imported Chinese goods.The move would revive a trade war from his first four-year term as president.On Monday, the U.S. launched its third crackdown in three years on China's semiconductor industry.It curbed exports to 140 companies, including chip equipment maker Naura Technology Group.Tuesday's call from Chinese industry bodies to buy local could affect U.S. chipmaking giants such as Nvidia, AMD, and Intel.Those firms have managed to keep selling products in the Chinese market despite export controls. The three companies did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.The Semiconductor Industry Association is a U.S. trade association representing major chipmakers. It responded to the coordinated call to limit procurement of U.S. chips as 'unhelpful'.It further argued any claims American chips are 'no longer safe or reliable' are simply inaccurate.The group also encouraged both the U.S. and Chinese governments to avoid further escalation.
In their first ever call, Russia’s defense chief cautioned the top US general about a large-scale Russian military exercise in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, according to a US official, with tensions running high between the two countries over the escalating war in Ukraine.
President Joe Biden appeared to briefly fall asleep during an international conference on railways on the last day of a trip to Africa—his first while in office. The president arrived in Angola on Monday, and spent the past few days meeting with regional leaders to discuss development projects. But video showed the president seemingly dozing off at Wednesday’s event—a summit discussing the Lobito Trans-Africa Corridor railway. In a clip published by British newspaper The Telegraph, Biden can be
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has accepted the resignation of his Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun amid growing criticism over the leader’s short-lived declaration of martial law.
As tit-for-tat strikes strain a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah less than a week since it went into effect, Israel’s defense minister on Tuesday threatened to directly target the Lebanese state should the agreement fall apart.
Mahmoud Almadhoun, 33, ambled towards Kamal Adwan Hospital early Saturday to drop off produce to hundreds of patients in the besieged Beit Lahiya neighborhood, in northern Gaza.
This November, millions of Americans voted to bring Donald Trump back to the White House. Many of them made their decision based on the belief that he would strengthen the economy. However, many...
"There are no grounds for negotiations yet," the Kremlin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told the Izvestia newspaper, reiterating Moscow's long-standing position on the talks. Qatar has mediated several returns of Ukrainian children taken to Russia from the conflict zone since the start of the war. Thousands of civilians, the vast majority of them Ukrainians, have been killed since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of the country in February 2022.