SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised salvo launches of the country’s “super-large” multiple rocket launchers that simulated a nuclear counterattack against enemy targets, state media said Tuesday, adding to tests and threats that have raised tensions in the region. The report by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency came…
In a sign unrest was growing in response to Milei’s policies, even conservative politicians, private university administrators and right-wing TV personalities joined the march, defending the common cause of public education in Argentina that has underpinned the country’s social progress for decades. “It is historic,” said Ariana Thiele Lara, a 25-year-old recent graduate protesting. “It…
For Kyiv, the apparent double standard comes at a particularly perilous moment. Ukrainian officials have been sounding the alarm for weeks that without urgent supplies of new military support, Ukraine will be unable to hold off Russian forces that are advancing on the battlefield and assaulting it from the air. Podolyak’s boss, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy,…
An early-stage clinical trial yielded promising results for a chlamydia vaccine, researchers reported Thursday in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. There is currently no vaccine to protect against the sexually transmitted infection, which is the most common bacterial STI in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2022, there were…
Six months ago, armed terrorists burst across the border from the Gaza Strip into Israel and unleashed a devastating massacre, during which 1,200 people were killed and more than 250 were taken hostage by Hamas. What followed has been a war that on some level everybody appears to be losing. That reality will be writ…
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian officials claimed Friday they used a barrage of drones to destroy at least six military aircraft and badly damage eight others at an airfield in Russia’s Rostov region. Russian defense officials, however, claimed they intercepted 44 Ukrainian drones and that only a power substation was damaged in the attack. NBC News…
JOHANNESBURG — South African footballer and Olympian Luke Fleurs has been killed in a hijacking in Johannesburg, his Kaizer Chiefs club said on Thursday. The 24-year-old defender was shot while waiting to be attended to at a gas station in the Honeydew suburb in Johannesburg, according to police. “Luke Fleurs tragically lost his life last…
Botswana is fed up. The country is home to almost a third of the world’s savanna elephants, a population that has tripled since 1984, and Botswana is often hailed as a conservation success. But European nations, most recently Germany, are attacking a lynchpin of Botswana’s elephant management strategy: trophy hunting. The German environment ministry is…
Prosecutors in Polish aid worker’s home city launch probe into his death in Gaza Prosecutors in the home city of the Polish aid worker killed in Gaza have launched an investigation into his killing, the state news agency PAP reported today. “We have started an investigation into the killing of Polish citizen Damian Sobol on…
MEXICO CITY — A boat carrying Chinese migrants capsized off the coast of the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, killing eight migrants, and Mexican authorities said over the weekend they were investigating the incident. The boat capsized on Friday, and Oaxacan state officials said in a statement posted on X on Saturday that the only…
