STILFONTEIN, South Africa, Jan 15 (Reuters) – At least 78 dead bodies have been pulled from an illegal gold mine in South Africa where police cut off food and water supplies for months, in what trade unions called a “horrific” crackdown on desperate people trying to eke out a living. A total of 246 survivors,…
After months of deadlock and more than 15 months of war, Israel and the militant group Hamas reached a fresh Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal, President Joe Biden said on Wednesday. The deal includes a six-week initial ceasefire phase and the gradual withdrawal of Israeli forces from populated areas of Gaza and the release…
North Korean troops deployed to Russia to fight alongside Vladimir Putin‘s forces in the war against Ukraine are taking their own lives to avoid capture, officials have said. Newsweek contacted the Kremlin, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry and the North Korean Embassy in London for comment by email on Monday. Why It Matters Ukraine and South…
The president notified Congress of its intent to lift the U.S. designation of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism on Tuesday Joe Biden has removed Cuba from a list of nations classified as supporting international terrorism, reversing a decision by predecessor Donald Trump to crack down on the communist nation. The president notified Congress…
NATO’s Secretary General Mark Rutte pledged to send drones, frigates and aircraft to the region as he highlighted a concerted campaign of ‘cyber-attacks, assassination attempts and sabotage.’ NATO will increase its military presence and technological innovation in the Baltic Sea to protect critical infrastructure from sabotage, the head of the transatlantic alliance said at a…
TikTok users in the US are migrating to a Chinese app called RedNote with the threat of a ban just days away. The move by users who call themselves “TikTok refugees” has made RedNote the most downloaded app on Apple’s US App Store on Monday. RedNote is a TikTok competitor popular with young people in…
(Bloomberg) — Mali’s military junta started executing an interim order to seize gold at a mine run by Barrick Gold Corp., escalating a dispute over the West African government’s share of revenues from the project. The authorities started executing the order on Jan. 11 against gold stockpiled at the Loulo-Gounkoto operations, according to a Barrick…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is proposing a new framework for the exporting of the advanced computer chips used to develop artificial intelligence, an attempt to balance national security concerns about the technology with the economic interests of producers and other countries. But the framework proposed Monday also raised concerns of chip industry executives…
KYIV, Jan 13 (Reuters) – Ukraine has stopped production at its coking coal mine in Pokrovsk, which feeds the country’s steel industry, because of the proximity of advancing Russian forces, two industry sources told Reuters on Monday. The facility in the embattled city of Pokrovsk is Ukraine’s only mine that produces coking coal needed for…
Greetings from Tyler, Things are already happening fast and it’s not even January 20th yet. The last of Trump’s “criminal” cases was closed today, but not without giving the media something to crow about. The charges stand even though Trump doesn’t have to do anything, they can still call him a felon. Let’s see if…