Sea drones are being used to smash Russia's navy, and now they're being used to threaten a US carrier strike group too ( www.businessinsider.com )
Houthi rebels are threatening US warships and shipping using naval drones, a new report said....
Indonesia may have just elected a strongman ( www.vox.com )
A relic from Indonesia’s dictatorship is the new president....
Taiwan reports another Chinese 'combat readiness patrol' nearby - Reuters ( news.yahoo.com )
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's defence ministry said it detected 14 Chinese air force planes operating around Taiwan and carrying out "joint combat readiness patrols" with Chinese warships on Wednesday....
Philippines accuses China of dangerous manoeuvres near Scarborough Shoal - Reuters ( news.yahoo.com )
MANILA (Reuters) -The Philippines' coast guard (PCG) on Sunday accused China of "dangerous and blocking" manoeuvres while its vessel patrolled near Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea this month....
Climate activists target Botticelli's 'Birth of Venus' in Florence's Uffizi Gallery ( apnews.com )
Two climate activists on Tuesday targeted Botticelli’s masterpiece “The Birth of Venus” hanging at Florence’s Uffizi Gallery, attaching images of recent flood damage in the Tuscany region on the protective glass.
Global warming is making Greenland greener ( www.nbcnews.com )
A study of satellite images found that an estimated 11,000 square miles of Greenland’s ice sheet and glaciers have melted over the past 30 years, giving way...
Stone age wall found at bottom of Baltic Sea ‘may be Europe’s oldest megastructure’ ( www.theguardian.com )
A stone age wall discovered beneath the waves off Germany’s Baltic coast may be the oldest known megastructure built by humans in Europe, researchers say....
Russia expands into the Sahel with its new brand: Africa Corps ( english.elpais.com )
After consolidating in Mali, Moscow is strengthening its collaboration with Burkina Faso and Niger through an armed structure intended to replace the Wagner Group...
Cambodia reports a new bird flu case, the brother of a 9-year-old who died of the virus ( apnews.com )
The brother of a boy who died last week from bird flu has tested positive for the virus, Cambodia’s Health Ministry said Monday....
US set to overtake China as Germany's top trade partner -DIHK ( www.reuters.com )
The United States is set to overtake China as Germany's most important trade partner by 2025 at the latest if current trends continue, according to the head of foreign trade at the German Chamber of Industry and Commerce (DIHK)....
(Korea) Schools to extend extracurricular classes until 8 p.m. for first graders ( www.koreaherald.com )
Nicaragua's crackdown on Catholic Church spreads fear among the faithful, there and in exile ( apnews.com )
Nineteen priests kicked out of the country, dozens of incidents of harassment and church desecrations, rural areas lacking worship and social services: the situation for Catholic clergy and faithful in Nicaragua is only worsening in 2024, according to exiled priests, laypeople in the Central American country and human rights...
Tucker Carlsson - The Vladimir Putin Interview ( tuckercarlson.com )
Tucker Carlsson - The Vladimir Putin Interview ( tuckercarlson.com )
Russians freeze as Putin’s war and aging pipes reveal cracks at home ( www.nbcnews.com )
Across Russia, creaking infrastructure and a wave of accidents have plunged households into the cold in the depth of winter, fueling rare showings of public frustration....
Brazil starts mass vaccination amid upsurge in dengue fever ( www.theguardian.com )
Emergency measures taken as 364,855 cases of mosquito-borne infection reported this year, a fourfold increase on year before...
Samsung chief Lee Jae-yong is acquitted of financial crimes related to 2015 merger ( abcnews.go.com )
A South Korean court has acquitted Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong of financial crimes related to a contentious merger in 2015 that tightened his grip over South Korea’s biggest company...
Yazidi woman held by IS for 10 years freed by Kurdish fighters in Syria ( www.theguardian.com )
Iraqi, 24, rescued with her children from al-Hawl camp after being abducted then raped and forced into marriage...
Rebound in Australia, China ties threatened by suspended death sentence for Aus writer - Reuters ( news.yahoo.com )
SYDNEY (Reuters) -A Beijing court on Monday handed Australian writer Yang Hengjun a suspended death sentence, threatening a recent rebound in bilateral ties that followed several years of strained relations between Beijing and Canberra....
China bets on open-source chips as US export controls mount - Reuters ( news.yahoo.com )
BEIJING (Reuters) - When a Beijing-based military institute in September published a patent for a new high-performance chip, it offered a glimpse of China's bid to remake the half-trillion dollar global chip market and withstand U.S. sanctions....
Zelenskiy set to replace senior officials amid Ukraine leadership ‘reset’ ( www.theguardian.com )
Comments come as speculation continues president is preparing to fire commander of armed forces Valerii Zaluzhnyi...
China named as hypothetical enemy for first time in Japan-U.S. military exercise ( www.japantimes.co.jp )
The Japanese Self-Defense Forces and the U.S. military named China as a hypothetical enemy for the first time in their joint command post exercise, government sources said Sunday, amid rising concerns over a potential invasion of Taiwan by Beijing in the future....
Nayib Bukele re-elected as El Salvador president in landslide win ( www.theguardian.com )
Voters reward Bukele for gang crackdown that has transformed security in central American country...
Overnight Israeli airstrikes kill scores in Gaza as fears grow of push into Rafah ( www.theguardian.com )
Israeli airstrikes across Gaza killed scores of people overnight, as fears grow of the military campaign intensifying in the southern city of Rafah, a tiny pocket of the territory where more than a million people are sheltering....
Kosovo's block on the Serbian currency raises alarm in the EU and US ( apnews.com )
The European Union and the United States expressed their deep concern Sunday after Kosovo banned the use of the Serbian currency and police raided the premises of organizations working with the Serb minority in the north of the country....
