US President Donald Trump said on Friday that a US military strike targeting Islamic State militants in Nigeria was originally supposed to take place on Wednesday but he ordered it delayed by a day. “They were going to do it earlier,” Trump told Politico in an interview. “And I said, ‘nope, let’s give a Christmas…
The Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office on Tuesday said five people had been arrested, including a former Samsung executive who allegedly recruited key personnel and leaked the company’s proprietary technology to CXMT, according to a report by Yonhap News Agency. They face charges for violating the country’s Unfair Competition Prevention Act and the Industrial Technology…
As 2025 draws to a close amid heightened tensions between Washington and Beijing over new arms sales to Taiwan, analysts warn that the worsening atmosphere could weigh on the substance – if not the scheduling – of US President Donald Trump’s visit to China next year to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Washington’s announcement…
Two men arrested over a 1 billion yen (US$6.4 million) robbery in Hong Kong were remanded in custody after appearing at Fanling Court on Friday. Lee Wan-kwong, 36, and Lee Chun-wa, 28, were each charged with conspiracy to commit robbery alongside seven others accused of robbing two men of 1.08 billion yen on December 18…
Big Brother contestant Mickey Lee died on Thursday, Dec. 25, after she was hospitalized earlier in the week following “a series of cardiac arrests.” She was 35. Lee’s family announced her death in an Instagram post shared on Friday, Dec. 26. “With profound sadness, the family of Mickey Lee announces her transition on Christmas in…
In the ongoing quest to understand South Africa’s political and economic stagnation, it may be helpful to look at other postcolonial states that have traveled farther along the path of independence. This may help clarify the stagnation question that citizens, politicians and economists are grappling with. Much of the analysis of postcolonial Africa and Asia…
Tom McArthurand Abdirahman Ali Dhimbil Getty Images Somaliland’s president Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi called the declaration “historic” Israel has become the first country to formally recognise Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland as an independent nation. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said Israel intended to immediately expand cooperation in agriculture, health, and technology. Somaliland’s president, Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi,…
EPA/Shutterstock Ukraine’s president last met President Donald Trump at the White House in October Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky has said he will meet US President Donald Trump in Florida at the weekend, as talks continue on ending Russia’s full-scale war. Zelensky said he expected the meeting to take place on Sunday and to focus on a…
[This story contains spoilers for Avatar: Fire and Ash.] Avatar: Fire and Ash star Trinity Bliss is one of only a few people who’s able to say that she grew up inside the imagination of James Cameron. In 2017, the filmmaker cast seven-year-old Bliss to play Tuk, the youngest member of Jake Sully (Sam Worthington)…
The fifth episode of Peacock‘s The Copenhagen Test begins with an extended “Previously On…” sequence. After a brief flashback, the main character has his own series of memories related to things that happened previously on the show. Said main character next records a video in which he tells a then-unknown figure everything that happened previously…
