Nine fishermen are missing after a boat capsized off the southwestern coast of South Korea late Saturday, authorities said. On Sunday, more than 30 coast guard vessels and at least eight coast guard and military aircraft were searching for the missing fishermen. Three crew members have been rescued near a …
Read More »Ukraine replacing its defense minister nearly one year into Russia’s invasion
Ukraine’s military intelligence chief will replace Oleksiy Reznikov as defense minister in one of the highest profile changes to the country’s leadership since Russia invaded one year ago, officials said on Sunday. David Arakhamia, the majority leader of Ukraine’s parliament, said Sunday that Kyrylo Budanov’s appointment to defense minister is …
Read More »Iranian security forces accused of shooting eyes of young female protesters
Iran nuclear deal standoff Fox News correspondent Amy Kellogg interviews a former State department official and an advisor to Iran’s nuclear negotiating team on the latest news surrounding the JCPOA. With Iran rocked by nearly five months of protests, reports are emerging of the country’s security forces deliberately shooting at …
Read More »Reporter’s Notebook: Does the near death of the Iran nuclear deal mean the end of diplomacy?
Iran nuclear deal standoff Fox News correspondent Amy Kellogg interviews a former State department official and an advisor to Iran’s nuclear negotiating team on the latest news surrounding the JCPOA. Former President Trump dumped the Iran nuclear deal in 2018 because he thought it was “horrible.” President Biden tried to pick …
Read More »China doubles down on its spy balloon story by firing national weather service chief
China fired the chief of its national weather service Saturday in a move widely seen as an effort to substantiate its claims that the balloon floating across the U.S. this weekend was an off-course weather craft. Beijing announced Zhuang Guotai’s firing Saturday, hours before the U.S. shot down the craft …
Read More »UK’s shortest-serving PM Liz Truss blames economic ‘orthodoxy’ for downfall
Former British prime minister Liz Truss blamed on Sunday the economic “orthodoxy” in the country’s finance ministry, other nations and in parts of the governing Conservative Party for derailing her premiership and “plan for growth”. Truss’s tenure was cut short last year after her largely unfunded mini budget and tax …
Read More »Military experts provide frank assessment of US shortcomings in potential China conflict
The U.S. would face few but significant hurdles if the military were to confront China following a Taiwan invasion, military experts told Fox News Digital. “Unfortunately, talking broadly and in overall terms, the Chinese have dramatically increased their air, sea, space, cyber and missile capabilities in the last couple of …
Read More »Japan fires aide for anti-LGBTQ comments: ‘Outrageous’
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida fired one of his aides on Saturday for making anti-LGBTQ comments, calling the remarks “outrageous and completely incompatible with the administration’s policies.” Masayoshi Arai, an economic official who joined Kishida’s administration last fall, said people would leave the country if same sex-marriage was allowed, adding …
Read More »Girl dies in shark attack after trying to swim with dolphins
Tiger shark swims dangerously close to beachgoers Officials had to close Mullaloo Beach in Perth, Western Australia, for the second time in a week on Monday, January 9, after a tiger shark was spotted swimming close to the shore. Check out this video, taken from a drone. A 16-year-old girl …
Read More »Chinese public mocks US reaction to spy balloon, making ‘fuss about nothing’
Reactions on Chinese social media have mocked the U.S. coverage of the surveillance balloon that entered American airspace on Wednesday, even downplaying the implications of a canceled visit by State Secretary Antony Blinken to Beijing. “It’s just an air balloon, does America really have to make a fuss about nothing?” …
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