The Seoul Western District Court on Tuesday issued an arrest warrant for impeached President Yoon Suk-yeol over his failed attempt to impose martial law in early December. It was the first time South Korean courts have ever issued an arrest warrant for a sitting president. Yoon is technically still the president, even though he was … Read more
Saudi Arabia’s Neom project was meant to be the city of the future, the crowning achievement of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s “Saudi Vision 2030” plan to diversify the national economy away from oil. A Wall Street Journal exposé revealed that the construction site for the city of the future has been plagued by complaints of gang … Read more
When it comes to boosting your system’s performance, upgrading to one of the fastest SSDs is a no-brainer. Whether you’re building a gaming PC, speeding up an older laptop or simply craving lightning-fast load times, an SSD is the way to go. Unlike traditional hard drives, SSDs rely on NAND flash storage, meaning you get … Read more
The head of a prominent Islamic organization in India propagated a fatwa, or religious edict, this weekend prohibiting Muslims from celebrating the new year. Maulana Shahabuddin Razvi Barelvi, the head of the All India Muslim Jamaat, lamented that new year celebrations typically encourage “dances, obscenity, hooliganism, alcoholism, [and] betting-like activities,” and called the new year … Read more
Genocidal Chinese dictator Xi Jinping urged his people to “work together to steadily improve social undertakings and governance” and celebrated his repressive regime as a source of stability amid global “turbulence” during his New Year’s Eve address on Tuesday. Xi traditionally delivers a televised speech on the last day of the year to review the purported … Read more
Norovirus, commonly known as the stomach bug, may be hitting Canadians harder this time of year with reported cases rising above previous averages, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada. Preliminary data from recent weeks shows norovirus cases are being reported countrywide at higher rates than the five-year average from 2019 to 2023, PHAC … Read more
The British government’s 10-year health plan is still some months off. So is the multi-year spending review that will set the parameters around funding. But the three themes around which Labour plans to build its NHS reforms are set. Each involves a change in emphasis: from treatment to prevention, hospital to community and analogue to … Read more
There’s no longer any question that Threads and Bluesky have created the most viable alternatives to the platform once known as Twitter. But while the two services may share some of the same goals, they’ve shown very different visions for how text-based social networks should operate. Threads, of course, is controlled by Meta, which is … Read more
Floating in the duck pond off of Parkside Drive in Toronto is a notorious speed camera that was cut down and tossed into the water. And it’s not the first or second time this speed camera has been cut down — it’s the third time. Faraz Ghloizadeh, the co-chair of Safe Parkside, has been advocating … Read more
When it comes to new horror games, there are times of feast and famine, and this past year we gorged until our bellies bulged and our mouths dripped with gruesome grease. In 2024, we received a rich spread of dark experiences from solo creators, indie teams, AA developers and AAA studios in a vast array … Read more