The senior ranks of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) are in tatters. The weekend purging of China’s top general, Zhang Youxia, and another senior military officer, Gen Liu Zhenli, has left serious questions about what triggered the elite power struggles unfolding in the country – and what this means for China’s warfighting capacity, whether it…
President Donald Trump said Monday that he was hiking tariffs on imports from South Korea to 25% from 15%, complaining that the nation’s legislature wasn’t “living up” to a trade deal that was struck last year. “Because the Korean Legislature hasn’t enacted our Historic Trade Agreement, which is their prerogative, I am hereby increasing South…
Marineland, a closed aquatic park in Ontario, had threatened to euthanize its whales after the government denied an application to send them to China. Source link
A group of officers in Nigeria are set to face a military court after being accused of “plotting to overthrow the government” of President Bola Tinubu last year, an armed forces’ statement has said. Sixteen officers were arrested last October after what were described as “acts of indiscipline and breaches of service regulations”. At the…
TikTok users have been deleting the app at a higher rate since the company announced that its U.S. operations would be housed in a new joint venture. The short-form video platform’s daily average app uninstalls in the U.S. have increased nearly 150% over the past five days compared with the previous three months, market intelligence…
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Verified videos emerging from Iran show bodies piled up in a hospital, snipers stationed on buildings and CCTV cameras being destroyed, following the unprecedented crackdown on protests earlier this month. BBC Verify has been tracking the spread of protests across Iran since they first erupted in late December, but the near total internet blackout imposed…
Fcafotodigital | E+ | Getty Images The IRS kicked off the 2026 tax season on Monday, and filers will see changes from President Donald Trump‘s “big beautiful bill” that could impact their 2025 returns. About 164 million individual tax returns are expected before the April 15 deadline, and many could receive bigger tax refunds after…
There’s a new Chinese model gaining buzz among developers: Zhipu AI’s GLM 4.7. That in itself is not new, but what did catch our attention was where it’s becoming popular: the U.S., our own turf. I first spotted Zhipu’s post on WeChat, announcing that the new coding tool was seeing so much demand, it would…
A shopper carries a Nike bag in the Union Square neighborhood of San Francisco, Jan. 21, 2026. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Nike is cutting 775 employees as the company looks to boost its bottom line and accelerate its use of “automation,” CNBC has learned. The layoffs, which are in addition to…