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A federal judge ruling that head of US Global Media Kari Lake cannot fire... In South Korea former First Lady Kim Keon Hee indicted on corruption... The messaging from Israel is that the future of Gaza is... Canada and India restoring broken relations appointing new high commissioners... A Polish pilot killed in the crash of an F-16... Tonight, Israel believes a decapitation attack on the Houthi leadership took out... Deputy Health and Human Services Secretary Jim O'Neill named interim director of... A unanimous vote by the United Nations Security Council to end the UN peacekeeping mission... The Trump Administration firing...

US President Donald Trump announced a new trade deal with South Korea, which calls for 15% tariffs on goods from there, after the country scrambled to secure an agreement ahead of the Friday deadline. “The Deal is that South Korea will give to the United States $350 Billion Dollars for Investments owned and controlled by the United States, and selected by myself,” he said in a Truth Social post on Wednesday. Goods from South Korea briefly faced a 25% “reciprocal” tariff in April, before Trump paused levies impacting dozens of nations. The pause was set to expire on August 1....

I am pleased to announce that the United States of America has agreed to a Full and Complete Trade Deal with the Republic of Korea. The Deal is that South Korea will give to the United States $350 Billion Dollars for Investments owned and controlled by the United States, and selected by myself, as President. Additionally, South Korea will purchase $100 Billion Dollars of LNG, or other Energy products and, further, South Korea has agreed to invest a large sum of money for their Investment purposes. This sum will be announced within the next two weeks when the President of...

World leaders either become known for quickly learning life’s lessons–or not. The latter category is largely a product of one’s personal lust for power intertwined with an ideology allowing it to flourish. But membership is at times encouraged by the former’s failure to appropriately discourage the latter’s aggressive behavior early on.Falling into the latter category is Iran’s mullahs. It has taken them nearly a half century to learn an important lesson, coming after testing two U.S. presidents—one weak, one strong—who served in two different centuries. That lesson employs a simple rule of thumb concerning who has a foreign policy backbone:...

Windows are a major source of energy loss in buildings, a sector that accounts for nearly 40 percent of global energy use, as heat entering through glass surfaces significantly reduces heating and cooling efficiency. A research team at KAIST has developed a pedestrian-friendly smart window technology. The smart window not only significantly reduces heating and cooling energy consumption in urban buildings, but also addresses the long-standing problem of light pollution in densely populated areas.

Have you heard? South Korea pulled a “North Korea” and just crushed their enemy into dust. ... It all started when the liberals impeached the right-wing president. Then, they triggered a new election, which, of course, they won. And now, they’re feverishly working to expand their high court to lock in a permanent liberal majority. Steve Bannon saw it coming back in May; he knew our South Korean allies were headed for serious trouble. ... Would Republicans ever pull something like this? Oh, heavens no. We’re still stuck operating under the Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney battle plan: “That’s not...

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's factory activity shrank for a fourth month in May as frail domestic demand and the impact of U.S. tariffs took a heavy toll on factory output while overall orders plunged at their steepest pace in five years, a business survey showed on Monday. The Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) for manufacturers in Asia's fourth-largest economy, released by S&P Global, edged up to 47.7 in May, from 47.5 in April. The index has stayed below 50-mark, which separates expansion from contraction, since February. "South Korea's manufacturing sector came into May on an unstable footing," said Usamah Bhatti,...

White House NEC Director Kevin Hassett gives an update on the current status of trade negotiations around the world. After finishing a CNBC interview (also linked below) Director Hassett noted that Asia was likely to be the next place for an announcement following the completion of the United Kingdom deal. Hassett outlines that approximately “two dozen” bilateral free trade agreements are completed within the reciprocity framework, and the sequencing of announcements is up to President Trump. Japan, South Korea and ASEAN nations would be candidates for the next deal as announced. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and USTR Jamieson Greer are...

As President Trump brings manufacturing back to the US — and closes in on trade deals with India, Japan, and South Korea — China’s days as “the world’s factory floor” are numbered. And Beijing is furious. In a move harking back to the Cultural Revolution, Chinese schoolchildren are again being taught to hate the US. Class time is devoted to shouting anti-American slogans like “China must win the China-US trade war!” ... But it turns out that — in secret — Beijing has been quietly retreating as fast as it can. Trump divulged in a Time magazine interview on April...

a US-Israeli plan emerging to provide humanitarian... "I campaigned for no more foreign wars. And now we are supposedly on the verge of going to war with Iran" Marjorie Taylor Greene... A 'settlement in principle' between the US Justice Department and the family... Canadian Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre running for an Alberta seat... Election Day in Australia... US District Beryl Howell declaring an executive order from President Donald Trump... The US State Department approving a potential 310.5 million-dollar military deal with Ukraine... Israeli air attacks continuing in Syria late tonight... In Illinois 73-year-old Joseph Czuba sentenced to 53 years...

Beijing instructed South Korea to halt rare material products such as transformers, EVs, aerospace and medical equipment.. Beijing has asked South Korean companies to cease exporting products containing Chinese-originated heavy rare earth metals to U.S. defense firms, warning that Seoul could face sanctions. China’s Ministry of Commerce sent official notices to at least two South Korean companies recently, the Korea Economic Daily reported on Tuesday, citing sources in the South Korean transformer industry. The outlet said the letters did not specify what type of penalties South Korean companies could face if the industry continues to export equipment to the U.S....

Top leadership of the US National Security Agency removed... in South Korea the Constitutional Court...impeachment of President Yoon Suk-Yeol is valid... In Sidon, Lebanon late tonight an Israeli air attack... 15 Democrat US Senators supporting resolutions offered by US Senator Bernie Sanders... US air attacks on numerous targets in Yemen... Russian air defenses downing a Ukrainian drone headed for Moscow... Special Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev speaking of 'three steps forward' following two days of talks in Washington... At least six dead in Bolivia others missing... In Canada guilty verdicts in the trial of Freedom Convoy leaders... Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...

Authorities in South Korea are battling wildfires that have doubled in size in a day in the country’s worst ever natural fire disaster. At least 27 people have died and hundreds of buildings destroyed in the south-eastern province of North Gyeongsang, with the country’s disaster chief saying the fires had exposed the “harsh reality” of global heating. Pointing to ultra-dry conditions and strong winds that have worsened the damage, Lee Han-kyung, disaster and safety division chief, said: “This wildfire has once again exposed the harsh reality of a climate crisis unlike anything we’ve experienced before.” The affected areas have seen...

Grok: Expressed in billions of dollars list the five countries and five corporations that will benefit most from the U.S. military activity to eliminate shipping disruptions caused by the Houthi near the Red Sea. China is 1st. 🇺🇸 isn’t in the top 5... ...

An Air Force fighter jet on Thursday misdropped eight bombs outside a training range during live-fire drills, injuring civilians in the area, officials said. The KF-16 fighter jet taking part in a live-fire exercise 'abnormally' released eight MK-82 bombs outside the training range in Pocheon, 42 kilometers northeast of Seoul at 10:04 a.m....

On Saturday, acting President of South Korea Choi Sang-mok emphasized the escalating "geopolitical risks" worldwide and expressed optimism for a renewed partnership with Japan.

This week a US State Department spokesperson echoing the message of impeached South Korean... The new FBI Director Kash Patel out tonight... defending... US Secretary of State Marco Rubio telling CNN European countries want to keep the Ukraine War going...Rubio also saying...Zelensky needs to apologize... "Zelensky cannot make peace with Moscow he would be removed within days...opinion of British journalist... A group of nations will meet in London on Sunday...Zelensky will be there... Ukraine, The Washington Post reports the US may stop shipments of military... The FBI returning property seized from President Trump... In New Mexico the Santa Fe County...

In Canada's most populous province Ontario today an election...Ford's Progressive Conservatives the projected winners... Israel's military out with an internal report concerning the Hamas attack of October 7th... North Korea says it conducted cruise missile tests off its west coast this week... The US Justice Department releasing files related to...Jeffrey Epstein...called the 'first phase'...more material still in the hands of the FBI... "everything was calculated, everything was planned" Those words from Calin Georgescu Romanian populist presidential candidate...taken into custody yesterday...six charges announced against him... At the White House and exchange between Vice-President JD Vance and visiting British Prime Minister... US...

Yoon Suk-yeol wanted to say goodbye to Joe Biden, but the American president passed by him as if he were not there. Good to know that all of Seoul got to see what we all here in the great USA witness daily.

North Korean troops sent to fight alongside Russia in its war against Ukraine have not been seen in battle for several weeks, raising speculation that they have been withdrawn after suffering heavy losses, according to South Korea’s spy agency. The National Intelligence Service in Seoul this week confirmed media reports that North Korean troops had been pulled from the frontline around the middle of January. North Korea began sending an estimated 11,000 troops to the Russian Kursk region in late 2024, soon after the North’s ruler, Kim Jong-un, and the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, agreed a mutual defence pact designed...