MONITORING (SW) – The Los Angeles Times is planning to lay off a “significant” number of journalists, the newspaper’s union has said, becoming the latest media outlet to shed employees in an era of collapsing advertising revenues.
MONITORING (SW) – North Korea has conducted a test of its underwater nuclear weapons system in a protest against this week’s joint military drills by South Korea, the United States and Japan, state media KCNA said on Friday.
MONITORING (SW) – The U.S. military said on Wednesday its forces conducted strikes on 14 Houthi missiles that were loaded to be fired from Yemen, in the fourth day of U.S. strikes in less than a week.
MONITORING (SW) – China’s population fell for a second consecutive year in 2023, as a record low birth rate and a wave of COVID-19 deaths when strict lockdowns ended accelerated a downturn that will have profound long-term effects on the economy’s growth potential.
MONITORING (SW) – Vodafone (VOD.L) has agreed a 10-year partnership with Microsoft (MSFT.O) to bring generative AI, digital, enterprise and cloud services to more than 300 million businesses and consumers across its European and African markets.
MONITORING (SW) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Monday called for the constitution to be changed to ensure that South Korea is seen as the “primary foe” and warned his country did not intend to avoid war should it happen, state media KCNA reported on Tuesday.
MONITORING (SW) – Torrential rains that turned avenues into rivers have killed at least 11 people in Brazil.
MONITORING (SW) – Yemen’s Houthi rebels fired an anti-ship cruise missile toward an American destroyer in the Red Sea on Sunday, but a U.S. fighter jet shot it down in the latest attack roiling global shipping amid Israel’s war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
MONITORING (SW) – North Korea said it has tested a new solid-fuel missile fitted with a hypersonic warhead as it continued efforts to develop more powerful, harder-to-detect weaponry.
MONITORING (SW) – The war in Gaza entered its 100th day on Sunday with no end to the carnage in sight.
MONITORING (SW) – At least 33 people have been killed in a landslide brought on by heavy rains in northwestern Colombia, officials have said.
MONITORING (SW) – The United States and Britain carried out strikes from the air and sea against Houthis military targets in Yemen overnight in response to the movement’s attacks on ships in the Red Sea, a regional widening of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.
