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- Russian Forces Tried To Stop Removal Of Captured North Korean Soldier From Battlefieldon January 15, 2025 at 4:38 am
Russian forces tried to prevent Ukrainian troops who captured a North Korean soldier in Kursk earlier this month from taking him off the battlefield, according to a Ukrainian soldier involved in the mission in comments to RFE/RL.
- US securities regulator sues Musk over purchase of Twitter shareson January 15, 2025
Musk's role at the social network has been marked by numerous controversies and led to various legal actions on the part of investors, former employees and companies that had contracts with Twitter, now called X.
- Half of UK homes increased in value last year - which towns saw house prices grow the most?on January 14, 2025
The price of 15 million homes rose in 2024 but will they continue to grow in 2025?
- Blinken Says Israel’s Assault Has Created as Many Hamas Members as It’s Killedby Sharon Zhang on January 14, 2025 at 10:22 pm
Blinken’s remark comes after Israel has killed at least 45,000 Palestinians in Gaza, per the most conservative count.
- Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, January 14thon January 14, 2025
“For the love of God, it doesn’t really matter—I just want to move on to Round Two, where we address the problem and try to stop it from happening again.”
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The 10-year Treasury yield fell and ING said the consensus forecast for the U.S. December CPI data shows the report is unlikely to bring relief to the U.S. Treasury market of bearish pressures. [...]
South Korea’s benchmark Kospi ended almost flat, erasing early gains as sentiment was weighed by weak jobs data for December and the President was arrested for questioning over his short-lived martial law declaration last month. [...]
Singapore dollar slightly weakened against the greenback ahead of the U.S. CPI data release due later today. [...]
Investors weigh an important matter: whether barriers are stronger to raising rates—or cutting them. [...]
Oil edged higher in the early Asian trade as supply-side pressures from U.S. sanctions against Russia’s oil industry likely supported prices, Exness said. [...]
Gold edged lower in the early Asian session ahead of U.S. CPI data due later today. [...]
The WSJ Dollar Index was down 0.2% to 103.28 — lower for two consecutive trading days. [...]
The chip maker said it will remain an investor in Intel Capital, founded in 1991 with over $5 billion in assets under management. [...]
As we enter 2025, Chinese media outlets have continued the tradition of publishing op-ed pieces that pay tribute to the past year. But this year’s outpouring of vague and even confusing New Year’s pieces—most of which do not even mention significant news events that took [...]
One significant dimension of the Chinese government’s transnational repression against Uyghurs is deportations. Recent longform pieces have detailed the journeys of Uyghurs who managed to escape Xinjiang and flee abroad, only to find their new host countries’ governments willing to hand them over to Chinese [...]
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi concluded a week-long trip to Namibia, the Republic of Congo, Chad, and Nigeria, as part of a 35-year tradition of China’s foreign minister visiting Africa at the start of each new year. Some of the notable outcomes from the trip [...]
In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central Party authorities to state media at the beginning of that year. These directives were issued on an almost daily basis in early 2020 through the early weeks of what would [...]
In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central Party authorities to state media at the beginning of that year. These directives were issued on an almost daily basis in early 2020 through the early weeks of what would [...]
Yangshuo, China, by Juan Antonio Segal (CC BY 2.0) [...]
As 2024 drew to a close, CDT editors compiled a series of the most notable content (Chinese) from across the Chinese internet over the past year. Topics include this year’s most outstanding quotes, reports, podcasts and videos, sensitive words, censored articles and essays, “People of [...]
In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central Party authorities to state media at the beginning of that year. These directives were issued on an almost daily basis in early 2020 through the early weeks of what would [...]
Researchers discover novel targets for bladder cancer therapeutics and demonstrate that a new combination of existing drugs, including statins, blocks tumor growth in mice. [...]
Scientists describe their construction of complementary, internal, ion-gated, organic electrochemical transistors that are more amenable chemically, biologically and electronically to living tissues than rigid, silicon-based technologies. The medical device based on these transistors can function in sensitive parts of the body and conform to organ [...]
A new study from an obesity researcher reveals that college students and older adults gain holiday weight just in different ways. [...]
Beneath sandy beaches, microbes filter chemicals from groundwater and safeguard ocean health. A new study reveals that sneaker waves provide a lens to explore the impending impacts of sea level rise on beach hydrology, chemistry, and microbiology. [...]
Researchers have published a study describing how quasiparticles called polarons behave in tellurene, a nanomaterial first synthesized in 2017 that is made up of tiny chains of tellurium atoms and has properties useful in sensing, electronic, optical and energy devices. [...]
Researchers have developed a gene-editing treatment for prion disease that extends lifespan by about 50 percent in a mouse model of the fatal neurodegenerative condition. The treatment, which uses base editing to make a single-letter change in DNA, reduced levels of the disease-causing prion protein [...]
Federal reservoirs could help meet the country's solar energy needs, according to a new study. Geospatial scientists and senior legal and regulatory analyst quantified exactly how much energy could be generated from floating solar panel projects installed on federally owned or regulated reservoirs. [...]
A researcher conducted a survey on the use of private wells during the 2018 Western Japan floods in Kure City, Hiroshima Prefecture, which was affected by water supply disruptions. [...]
Mediator Qatar says there are no major issues blocking a ceasefire and hostage release agreement. [...]
The area in Gaza which Israel's military has told people to go to "for their safety" has been hit by 97 strikes since May, BBC Verify analysis has revealed. [...]
What we know so far about the possible ceasefire deal being negotiated between Israel and Hamas. [...]
The mediator says Israel and Hamas have resolved major issues and there could be an announcement soon. [...]
Eleven survivors describe what happened and raise safety questions about the dive boat Sea Story. [...]
His appointment is another blow to Hezbollah, which had sought to reappoint caretaker PM Najib Mikati. [...]
With the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime, Russia lost a key ally in the Middle East -but it still hopes to keeps its military bases in Syria. [...]
Taghavi, 70, spent more than four years in jail after a trial that rights groups said was grossly unfair. [...]
DJI has ended enforced no-fly zones in U.S. markets. [...]
Internal pressure from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s closest allies could still threaten the talks. [...]
The Supreme Court seems poised to uphold a law that will ban the Chinese-owned app unless it is sold. [...]
An unsparing look at the outgoing U.S. president’s international legacy. [...]
The president-elect’s expansionist statements about Greenland and Canada may be a passing whimsy, but they will exact a cost. [...]
The economic costs are high, but the president-elect believes he has a mandate for dramatic changes to immigration policy. [...]
Syrians embrace a fresh start, but uncertainty around the future—and the past—lingers. [...]
Biden’s pro-Kurdish track record in the Senate and vice presidency didn’t extend to his time in the White House. [...]
[Nile Post] The General Court Martial in Makindye has directed Dr Kizza Besigye to take a plea, dismissing all objections raised by his defence team regarding the trial's legitimacy. [...]
[Afrobarometer] Majority of citizens are critical of the government's performance on crime reduction. [...]
[Nile Post] Government has said it has started a process that will see some of the country's gold reserves stored in local vaults. [...]
[Mauritius Tourism] Port Louis -- The island nation of Mauritius has been named the World's Best Honeymoon Destination in TripAdvisor's prestigious Travelers' Choice Awards 2025, surpassing renowned romantic destinations including Bali and the Maldives. [...]
[Liberian Observer] -- Courtyard turns dramatic scene as alleged culprit collapses after being served writ of arrest [...]
[Addis Standard] Takele Uma, CEO of Ethiopia-Djibouti Railway S.C., announced that for the first time since the company's operational launch, it achieved profitability in the last quarter of 2024. [...]
[New Dawn] Monrovia -- Thomas Etheridge, a staff member of embattled House Speaker Fonati Koffa and a person of interest in the ongoing Capitol Building fire incident, has come forward with a troubling account of his interrogation by security personnel. [...]
[Southern African Council of Non-Governmental Organisations (SAf-CNGO)] The Southern African Council of Non-Governmental Organizations (SAf-CNGO), formerly known as the SADC Council of NGOs (SADC-CNGO), representing civil society organizations from across all SADC member states, hereby expresses deep concern over the rising tensions and violence in [...]