2022-12-15 North Korean Spies Try New Hacking Method
Daniel DePetris is a foreign affairs expert based in the United States. He received an email in October from Jenny Town, the director of 38 North, asking him to write…
2022-12-15 Bethlehem Filled With Christmas Tourists for First Time Since 2019
Visitors are returning to the West Bank city of Bethlehem this Christmas season, after a two-year absence because of COVID-19. At this time last year, most stores and tourist places…
2022-12-15 Companies Develop Robots to Make Clothes
Large clothing and technology companies, including Siemens AG and Levi Strauss & Co., are developing robots to make clothes. The process of using robots or computers for human work, known…
2022-12-15 Grammar for Exercise, Part 2
Last week, we looked at common phrasal verbs and gerunds linked to exercising and health. For this week’s Everyday Grammar report, we will continue to explore exercise vocabulary. We will…
2022-12-14 Rural South Korean Schools Welcome Seoul Students
In the 1970s, more than 800 students filled the classrooms of Cheontae Elementary School in rural Hwasun County. The school is set among a group of small villages and rice…
2022-12-14 New Zealand Bans Future Generations from Buying Cigarettes
New Zealand passed a law on Tuesday to set a lifetime ban on buying cigarettes for any person born after January 1, 2009. This means that the minimum age for…
2022-12-14 Ukraine Shoots Down Russian Drones, US to Send Missile Defense System
Ukraine says it shot down 13 drones launched by Russia Wednesday over the capital Kyiv. A city official in Kyiv, Serhii Popko, wrote on the social media service Telegram the…
2022-12-14 Faces of Missing ‘Chibok Girls’ Sculpted in Nigerian Art Project
A new art project in Nigeria is centered on the still missing victims of a 2014 mass kidnapping in the town of Chibok, Borno state. Militants raided a government-run school…
2022-12-13 US Scientists Announce Major Advance in Fusion Development
American scientists have announced a “major scientific breakthrough” in the long-sought search for a way to use nuclear fusion to produce energy. The announcement came Tuesday during a briefing by…
2022-12-13 BTS K-pop Member Jin Begins Military Service
With a newly shaved head, Jin, the oldest member of the Korean pop group BTS, began his 18 months of required military service on Tuesday. Jin turned 30 earlier this…
2022-12-13 FTX Founder Arrested on Fraud Charges
The United States has charged the founder of cryptocurrency exchange FTX with several financial crimes. Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested Monday in the Bahamas. He had resigned as FTX chief last…
2022-12-13 Many Poor Children in Ecuador Suffer from Malnutrition
Erwin Ronquillo, an official with the government program Ecuador Grows Without Malnutrition, is worried about hunger in his country. Ronquillo said child malnutrition is chronic among Ecuador’s population. It is…