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North Korean candy finds a market in China as defectors seek a taste of home

North Korean candy and snacks are quietly finding a market in northeastern China, where defectors, longing for home, are buying them despite prices that exceed comparable Chinese products. A...

Beijing agency launches North Korea tour packages on direct Pyongyang flights

A Beijing travel agency has begun recruiting tourists for direct-flight package tours to North...

North Korea’s trade officials are running a pay-to-work racket

To get a coveted work posting in China, North Korean trade workers are being...

North Korean traders make fake calls to cover Chinese phone use

North Korean traders near the Chinese border have been deliberately placing brief international calls...

Turkish state channel TRT launches in French

Turkish state media TRT on Tuesday launched a French-language platform, only a month after Kremlin-backed RT France was banned from broadcasting. The Ankara-based organization,...

Elon Musk Named to Twitter Board After Acquiring Massive Stock Share

A day after it was revealed he owned the largest stake in Twitter, slightly more than 9% of shares, Elon Musk has joined the...

EU avoids imposing sanctions on Russian oil, despite war crimes in Ukraine

The European Union will not ban Russian oil imports for now and will focus on the far easier task of cutting out less valuable...

Drones Aim to Deliver Meals, Medicines to People’s Backyards

In the U.S., some restaurants and medical supply stores are turning to drones to deliver food, medicine, and other essential goods to people’s homes....

Racial bias can seep into U.S. patients’ medical notes

Racial bias can seep into U.S. patients’ medical notes https://ift.tt/2Gyez0d When health care providers enter notes into patients’ electronic health records, they are more...

Brussels proposes new sanctions package against Russia

The European Commission Tuesday proposed a new package of sanctions against Russia over its war with Ukraine, including measures to ban coal imports and...

A star nicknamed ‘Earendel’ may be the most distant yet seen

A star nicknamed ‘Earendel’ may be the most distant yet seen https://ift.tt/2Gyez0d A chance alignment may have revealed a star from the universe’s first...

Macron uses global tax reform to dodge ‘McKinseygate’ ahead of election

PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron is selling an upcoming deal on global corporate taxation as a way to make sure global companies such...

A UN report says stopping climate change is possible but action is needed now

A UN report says stopping climate change is possible but action is needed now https://ift.tt/FdrT5zB It doesn’t have to be this way.  The world already...

We can do better than what was ‘normal’ before the pandemic

We can do better than what was ‘normal’ before the pandemic https://ift.tt/nfwhQm1 It’s a weird time in the pandemic. COVID-19 cases are once again...

Binary stars keep masquerading as black holes

Binary stars keep masquerading as black holes https://ift.tt/FdrT5zB As astronomy datasets grow larger, scientists are scouring them for black holes, hoping to better understand...

The West’s plan to keep global data flows alive

U.S. President Joe Biden and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen just secured a political agreement to keep data flowing between the European...

Ukraine minister pleads to expand ‘digital blockade’ on Russia

Ukraine wants tech companies invested in Russia to be labeled as “supporters of the bloody war,” its digital minister told POLITICO, continuing his quest...

Covid boosters not needed for Meta employees in US offices

Facebook parent of Meta Platforms will stop insisting that employees have Covid booster shots to come to their US facilities, a CNBC spokesman said...

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