North Korea has likely amassed between 2,500 and 5,000 tons of chemical weapons, including extremely toxic nerve agents such as sarin, in recent years, according to estimates published in a joint report on Tuesday by the RAND Corporation and South Kore…
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Japan: Giant Squid Statue Built with Pandemic Aid Earning Its Keep with Tourist Revenue
The government of Noto, a central Japanese town known for its squid fishery, said Monday that its once controversial decision to erect a giant squid statue with pandemic relief funds in October 2020 had paid off, as it had since boosted tourism in the …
Taiwan Fires Live Ammunition at Chinese Drone for First Time
Taiwan’s military fired live ammunition on a Chinese drone on Tuesday after the drone intruded into the airspace above one of the sovereign island nation’s outer islets, the online newspaper Taiwan News reported, noting that the incident marked the fir…
Madagascar: Armed Mob of 500+ Attacks Police over Albino Kidnapping
Police in Ikongo, Madagascar, fatally shot at least 19 people on Monday after a 500-person-strong lynch mob overpowered a local police station holding four people suspected of kidnapping an albino child and murdering the child’s mother, Deutsche Welle …
Report: Taliban Engaging in ‘Routine Torture’ of Afghan Christians
Christians who have remained in Afghanistan since the Sunni Islam-based Taliban terror group seized control of the country last August “face routine torture and persecution” from Taliban members and various other Afghans, the Afghan newspaper Etilaat R…
Pakistan: One-Third of Nation Underwater After Record Floods
Roughly a third of Pakistan was considered underwater as of Monday due to ongoing flooding that has killed at least 1,136 people since the nation’s monsoon season began in June, Pakistan Climate Change Minister Sherry Rehman told Agence France-Presse (…
Kenya Finds 3 Venezuelans Breached Its Election Servers Illegally
The Kenyan national police service’s investigative unit, the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), allegedly determined in recent days that three Venezuelan nationals had illegal access to Kenya’s electoral commission servers five months ahead …
Video: India Demolishes Illegally Built Twin Towers
Authorities in Noida, India, used 8,100 pounds of explosives to detonate twin residential towers on Sunday after India’s Supreme Court ruled that they were illegally constructed, Reuters reported.
Beijing Claims to Have Engineered World’s First Mouse with ‘Fully Reprogrammed Genes’
Researchers at the state-run Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) recently claimed to have engineered the “world’s first mammal with fully reprogrammed genes,” the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported over the weekend.
India Condemns Chinese ‘Militarization’ of Taiwan Waters
The Indian government’s representative office in Sri Lanka used the term “militarization” in a post on Twitter on Saturday to describe China’s recent actions in the Taiwan Strait, which separates the sovereign island nation of Taiwan from China’s south…