The Wall Street Journal has announced staff cuts at its Hong Kong bureau as it shifts its “center of gravity in the region” to Singapore, marking the latest blow to the financial hub’s once-thriving media industry. Editor-in-chief Emma Tucker told staff in a company-wide memo on Thursday that the newspaper was following the same path…
A Chinese music student has been jailed for nine months in the United States after threatening to cut off the hands of a fellow student at a prestigious music institute in Boston after she posted pro-democracy fliers on campus. Xiaolei Wu, 26, was arrested in December 2022 after threatening another Berklee College of Music student…
North Korean pioneer Kim Jong Un has requested his military to “completely destroy” South Korea and the US in the event that they start a tactical showdown in one more round of belligerent way of talking focusing on Seoul and Washington. The two partners sloped up military and political collaboration in 2023 as North Korea…
An enormous quake with a fundamental extent of 7.6 has hit Ishikawa in focal Japan, setting off a wave advance notice and warnings for occupants to clear and plan for potential delayed repercussions. A torrent around one meter high (3.3 feet) struck pieces of the west coast along the Ocean of Japan, with a bigger…
Sir Jim Ratcliffe purchased 25 per cent of Man Utd for £1.2bn; the deal gives the INEOS owner control of football operations, plus a say in the commercial side controlled by the Glazer family; Man Utd are not expected to be busy in the January window
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Former United States President Donald Trump has decided against testifying for a second time at his civil fraud trial in New York, saying he has “nothing more to say”. Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican nomination in the 2024 presidential election, said on Sunday that he saw no need to testify as he had done…
Republican senators in the US have impeded $106bn in new subsidizing for Ukraine and Israel, dismissing requests from President Joe Biden
Russian President Vladimir Putin, marking out a more compelling job in the Center East, will visit the Unified Bedouin Emirates and Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, and host Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in Moscow the next day. The discussions will zero in on respective relations and the Israel-Hamas war, Kremlin representative Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday…
Indian rescue workers have made contact with about 40 workers trapped in a tunnel collapse in Uttarakhand state and confirmed that all of them are safe, officials have said. “All the 40 workers trapped inside the tunnel are safe,” Karamveer Singh Bhandari, a senior commandant in the Public Catastrophe Reaction Power, said in an explanation…
Great many individuals have revitalized in Tel Aviv, requesting the arrival of Israeli and unfamiliar prisoners being held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip and censuring the Israeli government for the manner in which it is managing the emergency. A considerable lot of the nonconformists on Saturday were loved ones of the prisoners and requested…
