A North Korean defector who escaped to the South more than a decade ago was detained after attempting to cross back into North Korea on a stolen bus, police said. The area is heavily guarded by military forces due to its proximity to the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, one of the most heavily fortified borders in the world. ...
Two people have died after a typhoon slammed into southwestern Taiwan, deluging the major port city of Kaohsiung with heavy rain and forcing the island to shut down for a second day. With winds of up to 135 kilometers per hour (85 miles per hour), Typhoon Krathon made landfall along southern Taiwan shortly after noon on Thursday, the equivalent of a ...
International concern is growing over the arrest of a prominent Cambodian journalist who helped expose human trafficking fueling online scam centers, with several governments and rights groups calling for his immediate release. Mech Dara was arrested Monday by Cambodian police and charged with incitement “to provoke serious social chaos” over social media posts he made last month about operations at ...
China’s Coast Guard claimed it entered waters of the Arctic Ocean for the first time as part of a joint patrol with Russia – in the latest sign of enhanced coordination between the two in a region where Beijing has long wished to expand its footprint. The statement came a day after the US Coast Guard said it spotted four ...
Georgian parliamentary speaker Shalva Papuashvili said in a Facebook post on Thursday that he had signed into law a “family values” bill curbing LGBT rights, just weeks before a high-stakes parliamentary election. Lawmakers from the ruling Georgian Dream party last month approved the bill, which bans gender transitions and could outlaw pride marches and displays of the LGBT rainbow flag. ...
Two students have made a pair of smart glasses with facial recognition technology to discover the private information of strangers. In a video demonstration, one of the Harvard students is shown using the technology to quickly discover details about the woman sitting near him at a train station in Boston. “Wait, are you Betsy?” he asks her. Betsy is a ...
WAUKESHA, Wis. — Many Republicans who watched the vice-presidential debate on Tuesday night would say Donald Trump’s running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, had the best of his opponent, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. But in this crucial county in the swing state of Wisconsin, one moment in particular had a Young Republicans-hosted watch party in the backroom of a local ...
The reason that it is important to ask Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) whether he accepts that Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election is not to establish whether Vance accepts reality. At least, that’s not the primary reason. It is good to know, certainly, whether the guy who could be a 78-year-old heartbeat away from the presidency in four months ...
It is necessarily true that a crime committed by someone in the United States without authorization is a crime that would not have been committed had that person not been in the country. It is similarly true that a home occupied by an undocumented immigrant (or a number of immigrants) is a home that would otherwise be available for use ...
RALEIGH — President Joe Biden flew over storm-ravaged parts of western North Carolina on Wednesday and Vice President Kamala Harris ventured farther south to Georgia to speak with emergency responders and devastated families in some of the areas hardest hit by Hurricane Helene, trying to stress to recovering communities that the federal government would be there to aid rebuilding efforts ...