Police begin making arrests in Seattle’s CHOP zone Wednesday morning
Print 🖨 PDF 📄Finland’s police have said it was unlikely an explosion was the cause of the damage to a gas pipeline between Finland and Estonia as their investigation shifts focus to the potential role of a Hong Kong-flagged vessel. The Finnish National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has now completed the “scene investigation” in the…
Print 🖨 PDF 📄Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) struck Russia’s Vladimir Filanovsky field in the Caspian Sea for the first time with long-range drones, halting oil and gas production from more than 20 wells, a source in the SBU said on Dec. 11. Four drones struck Moscow’s largest offshore oil field in the Caspian Sea, and…
Print 🖨 PDF 📄SEOUL, Dec. 4 (UPI) — South Korea’s Hanwha Aerospace said Monday it has signed a $2.6 billion deal to deliver 152 K9 self-propelled howitzers to Poland by 2027. Under the contract, the firm will also provide Poland’s Armaments Agency with 155mm artillery ammunition and logistics support for the K9 howitzers. The Seoul-based company…
Print 🖨 PDF 📄A powerful underwater earthquake struck Friday off Tonga in the southern Pacific, prompting authorities to issue a tsunami advisory that was later lifted. The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude 7.3 quake was centered 132 miles east-southeast of Neiafu, Tonga, at a depth of 15 miles. It predicted strong shaking but said…
Print 🖨 PDF 📄South Korea’s won reaches lowest level since 2009 as selling in Asian currencies picks up steam The yen fell further against the dollar on Wednesday, leaving it down a fifth this year as Japan’s government stepped up its verbal intervention aimed at stemming an acute sell-off in the currency. Japan’s currency declined…
Print 🖨 PDF 📄Publications targeted include those about protest and subjects Beijing deems politically sensitive Books about the Tiananmen Square massacre, Hong Kong protest movements, and other subjects deemed politically sensitive by Beijing have been removed from the former British colony’s public libraries in the lead-up to the 34th anniversary of the killings. Hong Kong…