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N. Korea arrests official for quoting Kim Il Sung in Kim Jong Un session

A provincial party official in North Hamgyong province was seized by State Information Bureau agents the moment he stepped down from the lectern at a political lecture session last...

North Korean elite school student expelled for tutoring during school holiday

A student at an elite provincial school in North Hamgyong province has been forcibly...

North Korea threatens criminal punishment for diverting factory goods to informal markets

The party committee of Songchon county, South Pyongan province, has ordered a complete halt...

Air China’s Beijing-Pyongyang resumption stirs economic hopes inside North Korea

North Korea resumed its first direct Air China flights from Beijing in six years...

Boeing to build next airplane in virtual reality

US aircraft manufacturer Boeing is set on moving its production to the virtual reality world within the next two years, its chief engineer, Greg...

Heart inflammation cases confirmed in kids after Pfizer jabs

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported eight cases of myocarditis, a potentially deadly type of heart inflammation, in elementary...

Stock up on milk & gas as dollar about to hit zero – crypto guru

Americans should stock up on essentials and prepay their bills before the US dollar crashes in 2022, Jesse Powell, chief executive of Kraken crypto...

Bolsonaro wants to expose health officials who approved Covid vaccine for kids

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has announced his intention to reveal the identities of the officials who authorized vaccinations for children, despite them having received...

China agrees to drop censorship of social networks for Olympic athletes

China is reportedly set to relent on its long-running censorship of western platforms such as Facebook and Instagram and search engines including Google as...

Pinochet’s formidable widow, who pushed him into coup, dies

Lucia Hiriart, the widow of Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, has died aged 99. She was as divisive a figure as her late husband...

Russian senators look to tax Facebook & Google

Russian senators are exploring the possibility of developing national tax legislation for giant global internet companies, like Facebook and Google, after new laws that...

Judges mull Harvey Weinstein retrial – reports

Several US appellate judges expressed concerns during a hearing on Wednesday over how the 2020 trial of disgraced former film producer Harvey Weinstein was...

South Africa’s hospitalization rate plunges amid Omicron wave

The South African health minister has offered some encouraging Covid news, suggesting that the Omicron variant is causing much fewer hospitalizations than previous strains...

‘Storm of Omicron’ on the horizon, Wales govt warns

Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford has warned that the nation is facing an oncoming “storm of Omicron,” as he unveils a string of Covid...

Worst company of the year named

Facebook, recently rebranded as Meta, is the world’s ‘worst company’ of 2021, a survey by Yahoo Finance has found. ...

Baseball player, 20, dies with no cause of death

League bosses and teammates have voiced their shock after a 20-year-old baseball player suddenly died, with no cause of death given. ...

American arrested for trying to spy for Russia

The US Department of Justice has arrested a former defense contractor on criminal charges related to alleged espionage attempts after he sent classified information...

Mr. Big ad canned by Peloton after sexual assault claims

Exercise and media company Peloton has pulled its viral advert featuring ‘Sex and the City’ actor Chris Noth after sexual assault allegations from 2004...

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