Missile attacks struck across Ukraine on Saturday, wounding at least nine people, as Kyiv and Moscow prepared for new talks next week with the United States. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on social media that Russia used 36 missiles to target critical infrastructure. Only four missiles were taken down, Zelenskyy said, highlighting a shortage of…
A U.S.-based blockchain intelligence firm says a North Korean unit was likely behind the hack that impacted more than $6 billion on Binance, the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange. Binance said it worked with blockchain partners to freeze roughly $3 billion in affected assets. The cryptocurrency exchange said Friday that deposits were unaffected, while withdrawals were…
The Treasury Department has sanctioned 10 North Koreans and Russians powering Pyongyang’s sprawling IT worker fraud enterprise — a state-run operation that churns out stolen identities, fake résumés and fake IT employees who infiltrate legitimate businesses. The hundreds of millions of dollars in proceeds are then used to fund North Korea’s weapons of mass destruction…
A German climber fell about 1,500 meters (nearly 5,000 feet) to his death on Monday, a day after reaching the summit of Ama Dablam mountain, according to a trekking company operator. Wolfgang Waschiczek, 57, was reported missing from Camp 3, which lies at around 6,200 meters. He had been resting after reaching the 6,812-meter summit…
Okinawa proved to be the last and costliest battle of World War II in the Pacific – and it’s a name director Peter Berg wants us all to remember. His new movie, “The Mosquito Bowl,” captures that battle. “It is a film that I hope asks us all to look at what we ask of…
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited China on Saturday, inaugurating a new bridge that connects the two countries and vowing to expand cooperation with his powerful neighbor. Kim’s visit to China, the first in a year, is his latest move in an increasingly assertive foreign policy as he seeks to align Pyongyang with Beijing…
President Trump on Thursday said his administration will invoke the Defense Production Act to spend $150 million to boost gasoline and diesel production in the U.S., the latest effort from the administration to lower fuel prices. The Defense Production Act, or DPA, is a Korean War-era law that allows the president to use loans, purchase…
Tension on the Korean Peninsula is once again ratcheting up, with calls for immediate talks between North and South Korea to avert an accidental military confrontation. It follows hostile back-to-back statements from Kim Yo Jung – the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un – who said loudspeakers broadcasting anti-South Korea propaganda would…
North Korea on Monday fired multiple ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters, South Korea’s military said, adding to a recent streak of weapons demonstrations that has heightened tensions during a prolonged freeze in diplomacy. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missiles were fired from an area around the North Korean capital of Pyongyang,…
When Nidal Hasan is put to death by firing squad during a public livestream, he will become the first person to be publicly executed in the United States in nearly a century. The Defense Department announced Thursday the execution of Hasan, the ex-Army major who was convicted in the 2009 killings of 13 people at…
