Under the proposed agreement, imports from South Korea would be subject to a 15% tariff while U.S.-originating goods would be exempt from duties. The U.S. has struck a “Full and Complete Trade Deal” with South Korea, President Donald Trump said in a Wednesday Truth Social post. If finalized, the U.S. would charge a 15% tariff…
Sudan’s conflict, now into its third year, has wrought unprecedented devastation on the country and threatens even more instability in a critical region connecting the African and Arab worlds. While the country’s strategic value is vastly underestimated in popular and geopolitical discourse—press coverage frequently dismisses it as a “forgotten conflict”—Sudan rightly occupies the minds of…
The Arab world has told Hamas to disarm and surrender control of Gaza. Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt called for the Palestinian terror group to disband on Tuesday, the first time they have done so. They joined 14 other countries, including Britain and France, in signing a statement that also condemned the Oct 7 terror…
A massive 8.8 earthquake rocked the upper Pacific Ocean Tuesday evening, triggering tsunami warnings for the entire state of Hawaii and parts of Alaska as the first waves hit parts of Russia and Japan. In Hawaii, a 5.7-foot tsunami wave amplitude was reported in Kahului, with a 4.9-foot wave in Hilo, a 4-foot wave in…
BISHKEK, July 29 (Reuters) – Kyrgyzstan has banned access to online pornography and imposed state control over internet traffic under new laws signed by President Sadyr Japarov, his office said on Tuesday. Japarov’s office said the ban on pornography is to “protect moral and ethical values” in mostly Muslim Kyrgyzstan, a mountainous Central Asian country…
Russia’s military engagement in Africa has grown since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, in a deliberate and cost-effective strategy to broaden its frontline against the West. The continent offers the Kremlin a low-risk, high-yield theater to destabilize NATO’s southern flank, sustain its war economy, and pre-position military assets in the event of a broader conflict…
A 36-year-old married police officer and three other people were shot and killed by a crazed gunman who stormed a swanky Midtown skyscraper early Monday evening — sparking mayhem in Midtown — before turning the gun on himself, police said. The 27-year-old maniac, identified as Las Vegas resident Shane Tamura, barged into the 44-story building…
GOMA, Congo (AP) — Islamic State-backed rebels attacked a Catholic church in eastern Congo on Sunday, killing at least 34 people, according to a local civil society leader. Dieudonne Duranthabo, a civil society coordinator in Komanda, in the Ituri province, told The Associated Press that the attackers stormed the church in Komanda town at around…
The 27-nation bloc averts a 30% tariff that would have taken effect Aug. 1. President Donald Trump unveiled a trade agreement with the European Union on Sunday, making it the latest in a series of accords as the White House threatens to slap tariffs on dozens of countries this week. Prior to the agreement, the…
‘Each new ultimatum is a threat,’ Medvedev said Monday President Donald Trump’s new deadline for Russia to end the conflict with Ukraine is an additional “step towards war,” according to former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Medvedev, now the deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia, cautioned that Trump’s announcement Monday that Russia must end…