South Korea to deploy lasers against drones at $1.50 per shot ground.news/article/south-ko…

Prosecutors in South Korea have charged Seoul's Police Chief for contributing to negligence for the Halloween crowd crush in 2022​ that killed nearly 160 people. nytimes.com/2024/01/20/world…

This is a great background read for those wathcing the Taiwan elections. geostrategy.org.uk/research/…. #Taiwan

A good bellwether of the current economic and political climate...

Incredible images of the burnt wreckage of the Japan Airlines plane that collided with a Coast Guard aircraft.

🇨🇳 🇦🇺 SERIOUS MILITARY INCIDENT Just one week after PM Albanese went to Beijing to hold court with Xi - the Chinese Navy has attacked and injured Australian Navy divers with sonar pulses. This occurred last Tuesday when Australian divers were trying to remove fishing nets from HMAS Toowomba's propellers. Toowoomba was in international waters inside of Japan’s Exclusive Economic Zone when the Chinese approached. Toowoomba had warned nearby ships they were heading underwater to clear her propellors of fishing nets. When the divers were underwater PLA-Navy destroyer DDG-139 closed in. Toowoomba warned DDG-139 to keep clear. DDG-139 recieved the message but it ignored it. Then began operating it's hull-mounted sonar. The divers had to abort their operation and exit the water. Tests showed they sustained minor injuries from sonar pulses.

Being blacklisted in several nations globally, but Hikvision's technology continues to develop, offering alarming uses.

State of the Uyghur cause summarized in one image.

Al Jazeera's Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh learned Wednesday that the airstrikes he had covered from the ground all day had claimed the lives of his wife, teenage son, daughter and grandson. wapo.st/3FvVymL

We should never have to bury our colleagues for doing journalism.

Sobering from @MSF “Gaza is being flattened, thousands of people are dying, this must stop now. We condemn Israel’s demand in the strongest possible terms.” - Meinie Nicolai, MSF General Director #doctorswithoutborders #Gaza #Israel

Israeli airstrikes have killed a Reuters journalist in southern Lebanon and injured at least six others. The media convoy that was attacked included journalists from Al Jazeera who say the reporters were clearly marked as press and that the attack was deliberate.

BREAKING: UN says Israel's evacuation order of 1.1 million Palestinians in Gaza is 'impossible' Read more: news.sky.com/story/israel-ha…

And the Nobel prize goes to... npr.org/sections/health-shot…

The sky above the town of Fort Smith in Canada turned a striking shade of red orange as a result of wildfires in the area 👇

For the first time in history, an American president will be on criminal trial in multiple venues -- federal and state -- during a presidential campaign in which he will be the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party for the Presidency of the United States of America.

Cambodia leader Hun Sen to step down, hand over power to son aje.io/c4pp9s #cambodia

"However this episode ends, it is a reminder that China’s capital, for all its Tesla showrooms and Apple stores and outward marks of globalised modernity, remains a tough place. It is a city of secrets and rumours." economist.com/china/2023/07/…

The next 24 hours will be crucial and telling for Russia.