Kim Jong Un craves attention. This time, he should get it
Soo Kim, previously a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency analyst, is principal technical adviser on defense acquisitions and sustainment at policy consultancy LMI in Tysons Corner, Virginia.
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North Korea fires cruise missiles into sea, South Korea says
SEOUL (Reuters) -- North Korea fired multiple unidentified cruise missiles on Tuesday into the sea off its west coast, South Korea's military said, marking the third time Pyongyang has tested cruise missiles in less than a week.
Bali bombing: families slam ‘secret deal’ as sentences of Malaysians at Guantanamo Bay cut to 5 years
Families and friends of those who died in a deadly bomb attack in Bali in Indonesia that killed 202 people and injured another 200 have expressed shock and anger after two Malaysians incarcerated at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba for their roles in the attack had their jail sentences cut from 23 years to five.
OnlyFans model’s arrest sparks debate on Indonesia’s strict anti-pornography law amid reform calls
Fransiska Candra Novitasari, a 25-year-old model and content creator also known as Siskaee, was arrested by Jakarta police at her flat in Yogyakarta on January 25. She and 10 others had been named suspects in the production of an adult film that was released online.
As Pakistan pins murder-for-hire plots on India in pre-election ‘signal’ to Modi, is their fragile peace at risk?
Having previously remained silent about the targeted killings of anti-India jihadists in Pakistan last year, Islamabad now plans to publicise its investigations into 12 such assassinations, foreign secretary Muhammad Syrus Sajjad Qazi said on Thursday – accusing Delhi’s intelligence services of hiring hitmen to eliminate its enemies.
CNBC Daily Open: Big Tech earnings loom large
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Tech layoffs balloon in January as Wall Street rally lifts Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft to records
The S&P 500 is trading at a record and the Nasdaq is at its highest in two years. Alphabet shares reached a new pinnacle on Thursday, as did Meta and Microsoft, which ran past $3 trillion in market cap.
U.N. urges reversal of funding pause for Palestinian agency
DOHA, Qatar/GENEVA (Reuters) -- U.N. officials urged countries to reconsider a pause in funding for the U.N. agency for Palestinians on Sunday, pledging that any staff found involved in Hamas' attack on Israel would be punished and warning that aid for some 2 million people in Gaza was at stake.