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A devastating earthquake rocked a remote region of Tibet near Mt Everest on Tuesday, killing at least 95 people and collapsing “many buildings.”

The United States Steel Corporation filed two joint lawsuits with Nippon Steel after President Joe Biden blocked the Japanese corporation from acquiring the iconic American company.

Multiple international reports in the past week have indicated that hospitals in China are experiencing a surge in the number of patients facing pneumonia or other respiratory conditions, prompting the Chinese government to issue a public notice that traveling to the country is “safe” and the situation is typical for the dead of winter.

Tens of thousands of South Koreans braved frigid temperatures and snow this weekend for days-long rallies both in favor and against impeaching President Yoon Suk-yeol, facing constitutional ouster following his failed attempt to impose martial law on the country in December.

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, and Rep. French Hill (R-AR), vice chair of the House Financial Services Committee, on Thursday wrote to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen demanding more details of a cyberattack on Treasury’s computer systems allegedly perpetrated by hackers linked to the Chinese government.

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol avoided arrest on Friday when his security detail refused to allow investigators into his residence, where he has been sequestered since December 12.

The Chinese Communist Party is “intent on rooting out every pocket of independent religious thought” and persecutes Christians by shutting down house churches, stripping children from Christian families, and monitoring every detail of Christian citizens’ lives, International Christian Concern (ICC) announced on Thursday.

Law enforcement authorities in South Korea raided the Muan International Airport and the Seoul offices of Jeju Air on Thursday in connection with the deadliest plane crash in the nation’s history, killing 179 people on Sunday.

Chinese tech giant ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, is reportedly planning to invest heavily in cloud-based access to Nvidia GPUs to circumvent U.S. sanctions that prevent the company from purchasing the high-performance processors used for AI directly.

The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) issued a statement this week pressuring China to “share data and access” to help investigate the origin of the coronavirus pandemic, which began in the central Chinese city of Wuhan five years ago.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Big Money Show,” Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) argued that the Chinese-backed hacking of the U.S. Treasury Department needs to be responded to with an economic response that hits “China and its surrogates

A Seoul court issued an arrest warrant for impeached President Yoon Suk-yeol over his failed attempt to impose martial law.

Xi Jinping urged his people to “work together to steadily improve social undertakings and governance” during his New Year’s Eve address.

The head of a prominent Islamic organization in India propagated a fatwa, or religious edict, this weekend prohibiting Muslims from celebrating the new year.

The Canadian government pledged to crack down on student visa abuse after Indian officials complained about a “well-planned conspiracy” that used Canadian student visas to smuggle Indian nationals into the United States.

One day after a Boeing 737-800 flying for South Korea’s Jeju Air burst into flames during an emergency landing necessitated by landing gear problems, a second Jeju Air plane of the same type reported a landing gear problem and returned safely to its departure airport.

Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev blasted Russia for attempting to “hush up” its role in the crash of Azerbaijan Airlines Flight J2-8243.

The Treasury Department says Chinese hackers remotely accessed several employee workstations and unclassified documents after compromising a third-party software service provider.

The government of Brazil stopped issuing work visas for Chinese electric carmaker BYD after local authorities rescued 163 Chinese nationals working in conditions “analogous to slavery” at a BYD factory under construction in the city of Camaçari, Bahia, Reuters reported.

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un ordered the communist nation to prepare its “toughest anti-U.S. counteraction to be launched aggressively” during an end-of-year party meeting, state propaganda ordered on Sunday, an apparent attempt to be ready for major foreign policy changes under incoming American President Donald Trump.

The Taliban terrorist organization running Afghanistan published a decree this weekend banning buildings from having windows overlooking places “used by women,” a measure to protect Afghans from potentially seeing a woman inside her own home.

South Korean acting president Choi Sang-mok on Monday ordered an emergency inspection of safety procedures for the entire national air travel system after the horrible crash of a Jeju Air plane on Sunday killed all 179 passengers, plus four of the aircraft’s six crew members.

Dec. 29 (UPI) — A flight operated by Jeju Air crashed at 9:03 a.m. local time on Sunday while the plane was attempting to land at Muan International Airport near the southern tip of South Korea.

A passenger plane operated by South Korea’s Jeju Air skidded off the runway at Muan International Airport at shortly after 9:00 a.m. local time on Sunday morning, causing a fiery crash that killed at least 28 of its 181 passengers and crew.

On Friday’s “CNN News Central,” Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) said that there isn’t any evidence that China exercises control over the Panama Canal in a way that endangers American security, but there is a risk of a hit to America’s

South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) said on Friday that an injured North Korean soldier, captured by Ukrainian forces while fighting for Russia in Kursk, has succumbed to his wounds.

Russia’s FSB security service announced U.S. citizen Eugene Spector was sentenced to 15 years in prison for stealing biotechnology secrets.

The Russian government on Friday struggled to manage international outrage over the increasing likelihood that a Russian surface-to-air missile brought down Azerbaijan Airlines Flight J2-8243 on Wednesday, killing 38 of its passengers.

South Korean lawmakers impeached Acting President Han Duck-soo on Friday on the grounds that he was not moving quickly enough to complete the impeachment and trial of former President Yoon Suk-yeol after the latter’s disastrous attempt to impose martial law on December 3. Han’s tenure as acting president ended up lasting only 13 days.

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) claims it thwarted a Ukrainian plot to assassinate Russian military officers with hidden bombs.

Sources within the government of Azerbaijan told Euronews on Thursday they believe a Russian surface-to-air missile caused the deadly crash of Azerbaijan Airlines Flight J2-8243, which killed over 30 of the plane’s passengers on Wednesday.

The crash of a passenger jet heading from Azerbaijan to the Chechnya region of Russia on Christmas Day has killed at least 38 people, officials said.

A study published this month by the International Energy Agency (IEA) revealed that global demand for coal, and global coal production, broke records in 2024, largely as a result of both supply and demand coming from communist China.

An Azerbaijani airliner with 67 people onboard crashed Wednesday near the Kazakhstani city of Aktau, leaving at least 32 survivors, according to officials. More than 30 people may be dead.

In the midst of a world unraveling with chaos, paired with the ache of personal alienation and isolation, Christmas can underscore the haunting questions at the heart of human existence.

During a portion of an interview with NBC News aired on Tuesday’s “NBC Nightly News,” Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) said that drones that are used by civilians are still a danger if they use Chinese software.

China’s Foreign Ministry on Saturday announced the assets of two Canadian human rights groups have been frozen in retaliation for their advocacy on behalf of the oppressed Uyghur Muslims and Tibetans.

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) warned on Monday that North Korea is preparing to send more troops, drones, and missiles to Russia to support its war against Ukraine. North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is particularly eager to send more “suicide drones” to his ally, Russian President Vladimir Putin.