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South Korea is suspending a military deal with North Korea after tensions over North's balloons
South Korea’s government approved the suspension of a contentious military agreement with North Korea on Tuesday, a step that would allow it to take tougher responses to North Korean provocations. The development came as animosities between the rival Koreas rose sharply recently after North Korea launched trash-carrying balloons across the border in reaction to previous South Korean civilian leafletting campaigns. The proposal will formally take effect when it’s signed by President Yoon Suk Ye
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Israel tech sector accounts for 20% of economy, Innovation Authority says
Israel's high-tech sector now accounts for 20% of the country's economic output, the Israel Innovation Authority (IIA) said on Tuesday as it urged the government to invest more to allow tech to grow faster. In its 2024 State of the High Tech Sector in Israel report, the state-funded authority said that despite the eight-month-old war against Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in Gaza, the tech sector continues to grow - albeit slower than in 2021 and 2022 - and remains Israel's main growth driver
2 min read - WorldAssociated Press
The Latest | India counts votes from a mega-election seen as a referendum on Modi
India on Tuesday started counting votes from its staggered, six-week election that was seen as a referendum on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's decade in power and was expected to give him a third term in office. Exit polls by major television channels have projected a comfortable win for the Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies over a broad opposition alliance led by the Congress party and its main campaign leader, Rahul Gandhi.
2 min read - WorldAFP
Video shows chicken shop outside defunct Hindu temple in Pakistan, not India
A video showing a defunct Hindu temple in Muslim-majority Pakistan has been repeatedly shared in social media posts that falsely claimed it was located in India's southern Kerala state and contained a chicken shop "inaugurated" by opposition Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. A human rights activist told AFP the temple was no longer in use as Hindus fled the Punjab region in Pakistan following the subcontinent's partition in 1947, which split the country from neighbouring India.
3 min read - WorldAssociated Press
In Indonesia, women ranger teams go on patrol to slow deforestation
The friendly engagement is just one tactic the women-led forest ranger group has been using to safeguard the forest their village relies on from deforestation and poaching. After years of patrols have accompanied a sharp decrease in deforestation, the rangers are now sharing their strategies with other women-led groups striving to protect their forests across Indonesia. A vast tropical archipelago stretching across the equator, Indonesia is home to the world’s third-largest rainforest, with a
6 min read - WorldAssociated Press
India begins counting votes in marathon election expected to bring Prime Minister Modi a third term
India began counting more than 640 million votes Tuesday in the world’s largest democratic exercise, which was widely expected to return Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a third term after a decade in power. The 6-week election was seen as a referendum on Modi. If the 73-year-old wins, it will only be the second time an Indian leader has retained power for a third term after Jawaharlal Nehru, the country’s first prime minister.
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The ANC dilemma which will determine South Africa's future
South Africa's leader will have to rely on the opposition to form a government after electoral losses.
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Honorary send-off held for 3 WWII veterans who will commemorate 80th anniversary of D-Day in France
CHICAGO — An honorary send-off was held at Chicago’s O’Hare Aiport on Monday for a group of three men, all World War II veterans, who are headed to France to commemorate D-Day. Inside O’Hare’s Terminal 1, a line of passengers and airport staff saluted three of the nation’s heroes as they prepared for the special […]
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China's Chang'e-6 probe lifts off from far side of moon
BEIJING (Reuters) -China's Chang'e-6 probe has lifted off from the far side of the moon, starting its journey back towards Earth, China's national space agency announced on Tuesday. The probe's successful departure from the moon means China is closer to becoming the first country to return samples from the far side of the moon, which permanently faces away from Earth.
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Japan's UK state visit to go ahead despite election
A state visit to the UK by the Emperor and Empress of Japan is to go ahead during the election campaign.
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Gazans returning to Jabalia describe 'horrifying' destruction
Palestinians returning to the camp in northern Gaza express shock at the level of devastation they found.
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NATO air training exercise starts over northern Germany
The "Tiger Meet" air defence manoeuvre got under way in the airspace over northern Germany on Monday, with aircraft and personnel from 11 NATO members plus non-NATO countries Switzerland and Austria taking part. "The first aircraft have been in the air since 9 am (0700 GMT)," a spokesman for Jagel airbase in the state of Schleswig-Holstein told dpa. Around 60 combat jets and helicopters from other countries along, with some 1,100 additional troops, are joining the German air force on the manoeuv
2 min read - WorldAFP
Climate change made historic Brazil floods twice as likely: scientists
Climate change doubled the likelihood of the historic floods in southern Brazil and amplified intense rains caused by the El Nino weather phenomenon, scientists said Monday.On top of that, the El Nino phenomenon made rainfall between three and 10 percent more intense, said the global network of scientists that assesses the link between extreme weather events and climate change.
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Cannons and machine guns are being tested as drone-killers in 2 wars
Israel and Ukraine are at the forefront of efforts to find cost-effective weapons to down low-flying drones.
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Over $2 Million Worth of Stolen Classic Cars Found Hidden in Canadian Barn
Police in Canada have arrested two individuals accused of concealing a collection of stolen classic cars worth over $2 million in a barn in southwestern Ontario, according to Global News. The discovery, which includes vehicles dating back to the early 20th century, came after a months-long investigation. The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) received a tip late last year about stolen vehicles in Lambton County. This tip led to a multi-department investigation, culminating in a search warrant issu
2 min read - WorldThe Independent
Amanda Knox tweets ahead of new trial in ‘same courtroom where I was reconvicted of a crime I didn’t commit’
The 36-year-old American will return to court on Wednesday for wrongly accusing a Congolese bar owner of murdering her roommate while the young women were exchange students in Italy
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Israel confirms deaths of four more hostages in Gaza
Israel's military says UK-Israeli Nadav Popplewell and three others "were killed while together in the area of Khan Younis during our operation there".
2 min read - Worlddpa international
Munich Re: South German flooding caused by Mediterranean low
The flooding that has hit southern Germany over recent days can be attributed to a low pressure zone over the northern Mediterranean, experts at the Munich Re reinsurer said on Monday. Damage caused by cyclones known as Genoa lows or Vb cyclones are on the rise, according to data collected by the reinsurer, the world's largest. "They suck up water over the Mediterranean Sea and then move from northern Italy in the direction of the Balkans," Munich Re head climatologist Ernst Rauch said. "Then th
2 min read - ScienceFuturism
China Lands on Dark Side of the Moon, Prepares to Gather Loot and Return to Earth
Going Dark China has just successfully scored its latest forte in the space race after landing on the Moon's dark side for the second time. As Space.com reports, China's Chang'e robotic rover has successfully touched down on the Moon's Apollo crater, which according to the country's space agency was exactly where it was supposed to land. […]
2 min read - WorldConde Nast Traveler
Digital Nomads Can Now Work in Thailand for Up to Five Years
Everything travelers should know about the Thailand digital nomad visa extension that came into effect June 1.
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Wives of mobilized Russian soldiers hold rare protest at defense ministry demanding their return
A group of about 20 women got down on their knees outside Russia's Defense Ministry on Monday to hold a rare protest and demand the return of their mobilized soldier husbands and sons from Ukraine. Groups of women who are the relatives of men who were mobilized into the Russian army by President Vladimir Putin have been holding small-scale protests for months. The women behind Monday's protest asked for a meeting with Russia's new minister of defense, Andrei Belousov, to demand that the men be
2 min read - LifestyleThe Spruce
HGTV's Egypt Sherrod Spills Her 4 Best Tips to Find the Perfect Home Fragrance
Egypt Sherrod spills four of her best tips for finding the perfect home fragrance and using it effectively around the house.
4 min read - BusinessDeseret News
Toyota halts some shipments amid growing Japan auto safety scandal
Japan's transportation ministry intends to conduct an on-site inspection at Toyota’s headquarters Tuesday.
2 min read - USKRON
Mexico’s first female president has Bay Area connection
(KRON) — Mexico made history this weekend in electing the first woman president in the nation’s more than 200 years of independence. Claudia Sheinbaum, a 61-year-old former Mexico City mayor, will also be the country’s first Jewish president. Sheinbaum, a lifelong leftist who is a close ally of the country’s current president Andrés Manuel López […]
2 min read - WorldThe Hill
Mexico’s president-elect brings climate science background to office
Mexican President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum, the nation’s first woman president and first Jewish president, has a background in environmental policy that includes work for the Nobel-winning United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Sheinbaum earned a master’s degree and Ph.D. in energy engineering before serving as secretary of the environment for Mexico City under then-Head…
2 min read - WorldModern Car Collector
Ferrari Impounded After Driver Clocked at 76 km/h Over Speed Limit
A 61-year-old South Australian man faces severe penalties after his Ferrari 812 GTS was allegedly caught speeding at 76 km/h over the legal limit. The incident occurred on May 11, 2024, in Paracombe, approximately 22 km northeast of Adelaide. South Australia Police reported that a speed camera captured the Ferrari traveling at 156 km/h in an 80 km/h zone. As a result, the driver has been charged with multiple offenses related to dangerous and excessive speeding. Authorities immediately suspended
2 min read - Worlddpa international
IAEA head warns of proliferation if Iran gets nuclear weapon
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) head Rafael Grossi warned on Monday of a wave of nuclear proliferation if Iran builds a nuclear weapon. "Many countries have said that if Iran gets a nuclear weapon, they will do the same. I think we have heard it very clearly from many countries," Grossi said on the sidelines of an IAEA conference in Vienna. "We have to avoid an aggravation of the erosion of the non-proliferation regime. This is very important, and I think my Iranian counterparts know i
1 min read - Businessdpa international
Japanese carmakers under fire over under-par security tests
Several Japanese car manufacturers, including Toyota and Suzuki, are under fire for allegedly failing to carry out proper safety tests before some vehicle models were certified. Similar cases were also found at Honda, Mazda and Yamaha, the Japanese Transport Minstry said on Monday. Sales of three models produced in Japan will be stopped for the time being, Toyota announced on Monday. Toyota admitted that it had obtained certification for seven car models in an unauthorized manner. "We mass-produ
1 min read - WorldSalon
John Oliver calls out "uncritical fawning praise" of Indian PM Narendra Modi amid growing crackdown
Oliver went in on India's growing Hindu nationalism, censorship and Modi's expected re-election
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Toyota S-FR concept reportedly gets green light for production
Japan's Best Car magazine says Toyota execs have approved a production version of the S-FR concept. But is this an MR2 revival or a Miata fighter?
3 min read - Worlddpa international
South Korea to suspend 2018 military agreement with North Korea
South Korea is to suspend a 2018 joint military agreement with North Korea amid rising tensions in the region, the National Security Council (NSC) decided on Monday. The NSC had decided to suspend the agreement "until mutual trust between the two Koreas is restored," the office of President Yoon Suk Yeol announced. A proposal on the suspension is to be put to the Cabinet on Tuesday. Suspension of the agreement, which was terminated by North Korea in November, will allow military exercises near t
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France's controversial CNews becomes top news channel
CNews, regularly accused of fostering far-right views, became France's number one news channel for the first time last month, according to figures published on Monday. Often described as France's answer to Fox News due to its opinionated and divisive presenters, CNews reflects a rightwards shift in French politics, often airing views against immigration, Islamism and "woke" leftists.
2 min read - WorldAssociated Press
A Paris judge questions 3 men suspected of 'psychological violence' at Eiffel Tower
Three people were released from custody Monday pending further investigation after they allegedly placed five coffins at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, a Paris landmark that will feature prominently in the upcoming Olympic Games. France is on its highest alert level ahead of the July 26-Aug. 11 Summer Games in Paris and the lavish open-air ceremony on the River Seine. On Monday, the three men were questioned by an investigative judge.
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China's Chang'e 6 probe starts collecting 1st lunar far side samples to be brought to Earth
China's Chang'e-6 lunar mission has carried out a successful far side touchdown and is already busily gathering specimens for send-off to Earth.
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Hong Kong detains an artist on the eve of the 35th anniversary of China's Tiananmen Square crackdown
Hong Kong police briefly detained a performance artist on the eve of the 35th anniversary of China's Tiananmen Square crackdown, underlining the city's shrinking freedom of expression. Police on Monday took away Sanmu Chen on a street of Causeway Bay, a busy Hong Kong shopping district, close to a park that for decades hosted an annual vigil to mourn the victims of the 1989 crackdown. Before officers approached Chen, he mimed the action of drinking in front of a police van.
3 min read - SciencePopular Science
DNA suggests ancient Celtic royalty was matrilineal
New genetic analysis of two princes’ within a pair of Germany’s most well-preserved Celtic burial mounds confirms a long-suspected familial relationship—one that may shake up our understanding of gender relationships within Iron Age societies. Based on DNA reconstruction efforts, it appears at least some Celtic clans revolved around matrilineal instead of patrilineal dynasties. Unlike the […]
3 min read - Worlddpa international
Israel hit targets deep inside southern Lebanon
Israeli drones hit areas deep inside Lebanon on Monday, killing one person and wounding another, in retaliation for launches by the pro-Iranian Hezbollah movement from southern Lebanon into northern Israel. Israeli drones targeted a car in the town of Kawthariyat al-Rez in Sidon district and a motorbike in al-Naqoura. The state-run National News Agency (NNA) said one person was killed and another was injured in the Naqoura strike. The Israeli army confirmed the strikes and said its warplanes str
1 min read - WorldINSIDER
Russia knows Putin's Crimea bridge is 'doomed,' Ukrainian official says
A Ukrainian official told The Economist that Russia's military is using another railway route because it knows the Crimea bridge is "doomed."
2 min read - WorldAssociated Press
Poland has arrested 18 people on allegations of planning hostile acts on behalf of Russia, Belarus
Poland has arrested 18 people over the past six months on various allegations of pursuing hostile activities or planning sabotage on behalf of Russia and neighboring Belarus, and at least one was involved in an alleged plot to assassinate Ukraine’s president, the interior minister said Monday. Ten of those arrested since December were directly involved in planning various forms of sabotage, such as arson, across Poland, Interior Minister Tomasz Siemoniak told a news conference.
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Giant 500-pound geese once honked around the Australian outback
Australia has always been a biodiversity hotspot, with some gnarly extinct megafauna in its natural history. Enormous, flightless ‘thunder birds’ or mihirungs once roamed the rugged Australian outback. The last remaining mihirung species was the roughly 6.5 feet tall Genyornis newtoni. These stocky birds went extinct about 45,000 years ago–living alongside humans for a bit. […]
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Meet the 'Giga-Goose,' a 500-Pound Ice Age Bird
An Ice Age bird that weighed twice as much as an ostrich was adapted for the water, say a team of researchers who recently studied fossils from creature, which went extinct about 45,000 years ago. Based on bones of Genyornisnewtoni found in South Australia’s Lake Callabonna, the animal weighed about 500 pounds (230 kilograms), making it five times as heavy as the fearsome southern cassowary. The recent trove of remains, including a nearly foot-long skull, was found in 2019.
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Watch China's Chang'e 6 probe land on far side of the moon in dramatic video
China's Chang'e-6 has successfully touched down on the far side of the moon, and its dramatic approach to the mysterious lunar region was captured in a stunning video.
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China's historic Chang'e 6 moon landing brings 'space race' into sharper focus
China landed the Chang'e 6 spacecraft on the moon's far side where it will now attempt to collect rock samples and return them to Earth.
2 min read - USWFLD
Chicago's 50th Ward office targeted with antisemitic flyers
Antisemitic flyers relating to the war between Israel and Hamas were posted on Chicago's 50th Ward office Sunday night.
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Microsoft to invest $3.2 bn in AI in Sweden
Microsoft said Monday that it would invest 33.7 billion kronor ($3.2 billion) over two years in cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure in Sweden, its biggest investment in the country.The US group has in recent months announced similar AI investments in other countries, including in France where it vowed to invest four billion euros ($4.3 billion), Japan where it announced a $2.9 billion AI push, and in Indonesia and Malaysia.
2 min read - WorldBBC
Power cut across Nigeria as workers go on strike
Millions of Nigerians are without power as workers demand a huge increase in the minimum wage.
3 min read - Worlddpa international
Germany congratulates Mexico's Sheinbaum after election victory
The German government has congratulated Claudia Sheinbaum on her victory in the presidential election in Mexico. A Foreign Office spokesman said in Berlin on Monday that Germany would be "very happy to work closely with the future government and will also seek to establish contact in the near future." "We are of course looking forward to expanding relations in all areas and look forward to shaping this together with the new Mexican government," the spokesperson added. Germany and Mexico have tra
1 min read - WorldINSIDER
Ukraine says China is in Russia's pocket. It may be the other way around.
China and Russia have become increasingly interdependent in the wake of the Ukraine war.
3 min read - WorldAssociated Press
Nigeria loses electricity and major airports close as unions seek higher wages amid record inflation
Africa's most populous country ground to a halt on Monday, with electricity cut and major airports closed, as Nigeria's largest labor unions began striking to demand a salary increase amid the worst cost of living crisis in decades. President Bola Tinubu's economic reforms — including ending fuel subsidies — have resulted in surging inflation that is at a 28-year record high.
2 min read - WorldThe Hill
Claudia Sheinbaum elected first woman president of Mexico
Claudia Sheinbaum on Sunday was elected president of Mexico, becoming the first woman and the first Jewish person ever to ascend to the position. Sheinbaum, a climate scientist and former Mexico City mayor, emerged with between 58.3 percent and 60.7 percent of the vote, the National Electoral Institute’s president said, citing a statistical sample projecting…
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