Lisa Solrun Christiansen gets up at 4 a.m. most days and gets to work knitting thick wool sweaters coveted by buyers around the world for their warmth and colorful patterns celebrating Greenland’s traditional Inuit culture. Her morning routine includes a quick check of the news, but these days the ritual shatters her peace because of … Read more
File picture of Postmaster General of the United States Louis DeJoy. | Photo Credit: AP The head of the beleaguered U.S. Postal Service (USPS), Louis DeJoy, resigned Monday (March 24, 2025) after nearly five years in the position, leaving as President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have floated the idea … Read more
South Korea will launch a special probe into violations of the free trade pact with the United States regarding country of origin markings, the Korea Customs Service (KCS) said on Tuesday (March 25, 2025), ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs. South Korea is among 20 countries worldwide, and one of only three in the … Read more
U.S. President Donald Trump has regularly praised tech billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency for its role in cutting the size of the federal workforce and halting thousands of government programs and contracts. In just nine weeks entire government agencies have been dismantled and tens of thousands of workers from the 2.3-million strong federal … Read more
This image taken from a video provided by U.N. World Food Program shows displaced people fleeing fighting on Jan. 26, 2025, in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo. | Photo Credit: AP Burundi is seeing its largest influx of refugees in decades as tens of thousands of people flee the fighting in neighboring eastern Congo, … Read more
Smoke billows from a residential building following a missile attack in Sumy, northeastern Ukraine, on March 24, 2025, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. | Photo Credit: AFP A meeting between Russian and U.S. officials on a partial ceasefire in Ukraine ended after 12 hours of negotiations in Saudi Arabia, Russian state media said, as … Read more
6.7 magnitude earthquake struck off New Zealand’s South Island. Photo: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/ A strong 6.7 magnitude earthquake struck off New Zealand’s South Island on Tuesday (March 25, 2025), authorities said, as the country’s disaster agency assessed if there were any tsunami threats. Residents of the Southland and Fiordland regions should stay away from beaches and marine … Read more
Restorer Wang Nan, right patch up holes on a panel of patterned green silk with the Chinese character for “longevity” sewn into it, adding color in a process called “inpainting,” at a workshop on the sprawling compound of the Forbidden City also known as the Palace Museum in Beijing, on February 21, 2025. | Photo … Read more
Actions against Yunseo Chung “form part of a larger pattern of attempted U.S. government repression of constitutionally protected protest activity and other forms of speech,” Monday’s (March 24, 2025) lawsuit said. | Photo Credit: Reuters A Korean American Columbia University student, who is a legal permanent U.S. resident and has participated in pro-Palestinian protests, sued … Read more
The United Nations said Monday (March 24, 2025) it will “reduce its footprint” in the Gaza Strip after an Israeli tank strike hit one of its compounds last week, killing one staffer from Bulgaria and wounding five other employees. The world body will temporarily remove about a third of its approximately 100 international staffers working … Read more