‘PERSONAL MISTAKES’: Eileen Wang has agreed to plead guilty to the felony, which comes with a maximum sentence of 10 years in federal prison
A southern California mayor has agreed to plead guilty to acting as an illegal agent for the Chinese government and has resigned from her city position, officials said on Monday.Eileen Wang (王愛琳), mayor of Arcadia, was charged last month with one count of acting in the US as an illegal agent of a fo
A top South Korean official has proposed a tax on artificial intelligence (AI) profits to be redistributed among society as a semiconductor boom drives massive earnings for technology giants Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix.The two South Korean firms have emerged as key suppliers of high-performance
The EU on Monday imposed sanctions on 16 officials accused of helping Russia to abduct tens of thousands of children from Ukraine and force many to change their identities or be put up for adoption.Sanctions were also slapped on seven centers suspected of indoctrinating the children or training them
Ever felt like mosquitoes bite you while ignoring everyone else?Scientists are now making progress in deciphering the complex chemical cocktail that makes particular people more enticing to the disease-spreading bloodsuckers.“It’s not a misconception — mosquitoes are attracted to some people more th
Federal agents are investigating the deaths of six people thought to be immigrants found inside a shipping container at a Union Pacific rail yard near the border with Mexico in Laredo, Texas, on Sunday as a “potential human smuggling event.”A Union Pacific employee found the bodies of six people ins
Brides attend a mass wedding celebration for Palestinian couples organized by the Turkish Humanitarian Relief Foundation in Gaza City on Monday.
ON PROBABTION: The former Thai PM was jailed after the Supreme Court ruled that he improperly served a 2023 sentence in a hospital suite rather than a prison cell
Former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra was released early from prison yesterday, raising the prospect of a return to the spotlight for the political heavyweight.The 76-year-old telecom billionaire served eight months of a one-year prison sentence for corruption and is required to wear an elec
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday urged the public to cut down on gasoline and diesel consumption amid supply disruptions due to the Middle East conflict.India is one of the few nations in the region that has not increased prices of gasoline and diesel for domestic consumers or rationed
CATASTROPHIC HEALTH FAILURE: Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi was transferred by ambulance to a hospital in Tehran ‘to be treated by her own medical team’
Iranian authorities on Sunday released Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi on bail following growing alarm over her health and she has already been transferred to Tehran for medical treatment, her supporters said.After 10 days of hospitalization in Zanjan in northern Iran where she had been se
An American national and a French woman evacuated from the cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak have tested positive, officials said yesterday, as the complex operation to repatriate those on board continued.The French woman, one of five passengers from France flown back from the MV Hondi
Zbigniew Ziobro, the former Polish justice minister granted asylum in Hungary during Viktor Orban’s time as prime minister, fled to the US following Orban’s defeat in last month’s election, Gazeta Wyborcza reported on Sunday.“I’m in the United States, I arrived yesterday,” Ziobro confirmed in an int
Before he opened fire on the Florida State University campus last year, killing two people and wounding six others, Phoenix Ikner had a conversation.Not with a friend, a parent or anyone who might have talked him out of it, but with an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot.According to evidence gathe
People attend the celebration of the Brotherhood of Flowers and Palms in Panchimalco, El Salvador, on Sunday. This year, the traditional religious and cultural festival is being held following El Salvador’s first inscription on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Hu
ORBAN GONE: Magyar has pledged that one of his government’s first steps would be to create an office to investigate corruption over the past 20 years
Peter Magyar, a pro-EU conservative, was sworn in as Hungary’s new prime minister on Saturday, closing the chapter on the 16-year rule of his nationalist predecessor, Viktor Orban. The former government insider turned critic whose Tisza party resoundingly won April 12 legislative elections, vowed he
A militia attack killed at least 69 people in Ituri province in the conflict-torn northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo), local and security sources said on Saturday. For more than 30 years the mineral-rich eastern DR Congo has been a battleground between various armed groups,
Australia’s leading opposition Liberal Party might have to work with a far-right, anti-Islamic party that defeated it in a “bloodbath” by-election, a senior government minister said yesterday. One Nation, whose leader, Pauline Hanson, wants to slash immigration and has repeatedly made anti-Islamic r
CEASEFIRE AT RISK: An Israeli strike on a motorbike hit ‘a Syrian national and his 12-year-old daughter,’ and the drone hit them twice more, Lebanese authorities said
Israel on Saturday carried out strikes across Lebanon, killing at least nine people in the south, with raids also targeting a highway not far from Beirut outside of Hezbollah’s traditional strongholds. The fresh attacks were some of the most intense since the start of a three-week-old ceasefire betw
Kim Su-jin and her husband have set aside their doubts and embraced parenthood, joining a small but notable wave of South Korean couples having children despite the country’s steep demographic decline. South Korea has one of the world’s lowest birthrates, and the government has spent billions of dol
A person who jumped a fence and was on a runway at Denver International Airport in Colorado was struck and killed by a Frontier Airlines plane during takeoff, airport authorities said. The collision sparked an engine fire and forced passengers to evacuate. The plane, on route from Denver to Los Ange
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