A North Korean defector who escaped to the South more than a decade ago was detained after attempting to cross back into North Korea on a stolen bus, police said. The area is heavily guarded by military forces due to its proximity to the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas,…
Two people have died after a typhoon slammed into southwestern Taiwan, deluging the major port city of Kaohsiung with heavy rain and forcing the island to shut down for a second day. With winds of up to 135 kilometers per hour (85 miles per hour), Typhoon Krathon made landfall along southern…
International concern is growing over the arrest of a prominent Cambodian journalist who helped expose human trafficking fueling online scam centers, with several governments and rights groups calling for his immediate release. Mech Dara was arrested Monday by Cambodian police and charged with incitement “to provoke serious social chaos” over…
China’s Coast Guard claimed it entered waters of the Arctic Ocean for the first time as part of a joint patrol with Russia – in the latest sign of enhanced coordination between the two in a region where Beijing has long wished to expand its footprint. The statement came a…
Georgian parliamentary speaker Shalva Papuashvili said in a Facebook post on Thursday that he had signed into law a “family values” bill curbing LGBT rights, just weeks before a high-stakes parliamentary election. Lawmakers from the ruling Georgian Dream party last month approved the bill, which bans gender transitions and could…
A focus group of Democrats, independents and Republicans reacted to the moment when Gov. Tim Walz called himself a ‘knucklehead’ for claiming to have been in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square massacre. Moderators confronted Walz on the claim during the CBS News Vice Presidential Debate Tuesday night. Walz admitted…
In his remarks during last week’s United Nations General Assembly, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, claimed that Iran wants to ‘live in peace.’ He demanded ‘a world free of nuclear weapons,’ and declared that Iran ‘is ready to disarm,’ if Israel does the same. But just two weeks prior, Iran and…
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was not asked about several highly talked about news stories in the first and only vice presidential debate on Tuesday, including his military service, which Walz did not strongly invoke either. The CBS Vice Presidential Debate in New York City showcased the Republican and Democrat candidates…
Former President Trump said Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz ’embarrassed himself’ during Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate, while Sen. JD Vance’s steady presentation ‘reconfirmed’ his choice to make the senator from Ohio his running mate. Trump spoke exclusively with Fox News Digital on Wednesday morning, hours after Vance, R-Ohio, and Walz…
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) met on Wednesday following Iran’s unprecedented attack on Israel, but overshadowing the meeting was Israel’s announcement that it had banned the U.N. secretary-general due to his failure to condemn Iran. ‘Anyone who cannot unequivocally condemn Iran’s heinous attack on Israel does not deserve to…