SEOUL, Aug 8 (Reuters) – South Korea could rupture its U.S. alliance and shock financial markets if it started building nuclear weapons, Defence Minister Shin Won-sik told Reuters, dismissing renewed domestic calls for the country’s own arsenal to deter North Korea. As the neighbouring North rapidly expands nuclear and missile capabilities, more South Korean officials…
More than a dozen arrested as ultra-Orthodox rioters descend upon the army’s main draft center, calling police ‘Nazis’ as they violently oppose draft orders Dozens of extreme ultra-Orthodox rioters broke into the Tel Hashomer army base on Tuesday, protesting against draft orders that have been distributed to the sector. An illegal protest took place near…
Israel says it has carried out an air strike against what it said was a “military structure” used by the armed group Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. The Lebanese health ministry said four people were killed in the strike on a house in the town of Maifadoun, around 30km from the Israeli border. Security sources told…
WASHINGTON, Aug 5 (Reuters) – At least five U.S. personnel were injured in an attack against a military base in Iraq on Monday, U.S. officials told Reuters, as the Middle East braced for a possible new wave of attacks by Iran and its allies following last week’s killing of senior members of militant groups Hamas…
WASHINGTON, Aug 5 (Reuters) – Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O), opens new tab Google broke the law with monopolistic behavior over online search and related advertising, a federal judge ruled on Monday, the first victory for U.S. antitrust authorities who have filed several lawsuits challenging Big Tech’s market dominance. The decision is a significant win for the Justice…
Aug. 5 (UPI) — Bangladesh’s embattled prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, resigned Monday and fled the country after protesters stormed her official residence in the capital amid a growing revolt that began over quotas for government jobs in which hundreds of mostly protesters have died. The announcement from the head of the army, Gen. Waker-uz-Zaman, came…
Wall Street’s main indexes nosedived on Monday, as fears of the United States tipping into recession following weak economic data last week rippled through global markets. The blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Index plunged more than 1,100 points after the opening bell, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite fell nearly 5% after entering correction territory last week….
Shops, banks and GP surgeries across the country shut early tonight amid fears of further rioting in the wake of the Southport stabbings. Reports spread on social media suggesting a ‘riot’ was set to hit the West Yorkshire town of Huddersfield at 1pm today, while protesters gathered in Birmingham afterrumours of a gathering spread online and…
Greetings from Tyler, So many things are happening all at once, we can hardly keep up. Israel took out a couple of terrorist commanders, and now it’s on. Iran is signaling that they’re going to respond in a big way, but anybody knows they’re braggarts. They better hope they don’t do anything rash, or … Not…
Employers in the United States added 114,000 workers to their payrolls in July, the Department of Labor said Friday, and the unemployment rate jumped to 4.3 percent. Economists had been expecting 180,000 jobs and an unemployment rate of 4.1 percent. The disappointing payroll growth and the sudden jump in unemployment suggest that the economy may…