Kyiv launches fresh Kursk offensive
A new Ukrainian operation appears to be underway in Russia's region of Kursk. Kyiv's forces seeking to take control of a road to the regional capital.
Kyiv says Ukrainian forces have started a new offensive in the western Russian region of Kursk after their surprise incursion into the territory in August.
"Kursk region, good news: Russia is getting what it deserves," the head of the Ukrainian presidential office, Andriy Yermak, wrote on Telegram.
His comments appeared to confirm reports by military bloggers that the new advance in Kursk was taking place.
Social order in Gaza will collapse if Israel ends cooperation with UN aid agency, official says
Unrwa senior officer describes 60,000 people sheltering in school buildings sharing 12 bathrooms, but says without aid things will get worse
Sun 5 Jan 2025 15.46 GMT
Social order in Gaza is likely to collapse further if Israel goes ahead with its threat this month to end all cooperation with the UN refugee agency for Palestinians, Louise Wateridge, its senior emergency officer, has warned.
Wateridge – who has just returned from Gaza – described the territory as increasingly fractured and said the two Knesset bills due to come into force at the end of the month blocking cooperation with the agency will make it impossible for Unrwa to operate or to distribute aid in a war zone.
“If we’re no longer able to communicate to the Israeli authorities, we no longer have a deconfliction process in place, so none of our buildings will be de-conflicted or protected any more, and we simply won’t be able to be there,” she said.
We Know Where You ParkedMassive Data Breach at VW Raises Questions about Vehicle Privacy
When Nadja Weippert began operating her brand-new VW ID.3 last September, she immediately downloaded the Volkswagen app. It allows drivers to preheat their cars, see the battery level and check the remaining range. The app is necessary to take advantage of all of the car’s amenities.
The 41-year-old likely took a closer look at the app’s data protection provisions than many others. After all, she isn’t just a Green Party member of the Lower Saxony state parliament, she is also her group’s spokesperson for data protection issues. Beyond that, she is also mayor of Tostedt, a community between Hamburg and Bremen.
South Korean protesters face off in snowstorm over fate of impeached president
Thousands of South Koreans on Sunday braved heavy snow to rally for or against the country’s impeached leader Yoon Suk Yeol, who is resisting arrest over his botched attempt to declare martial law. A warrant for his detenton expires on Monday.
Thousands of South Koreans braved a snowstorm Sunday to rally in support or opposition of President Yoon Suk Yeol, suspended over a failed martial law bid and resisting arrest a day before the warrant expires.
Yoon plunged the country into political chaos last month with the bungled martial law declaration and has since holed up in the presidential residence, surrounded by hundreds of loyal security officers.
An attempt to arrest him by investigators Friday failed when a tense six-hour standoff with his presidential security service ended over security fears, with his supporters also camped outside.
Eighth Gaza baby freezes to death as Israel kills 88 people in a day
- Israeli forces have killed at least 88 Palestinians in a day across Gaza. They bombed the enclave more than 100 times in just three days, killing more than 200 Palestinians, with women and children making up a majority of the victims.
- Meanwhile, another baby in Gaza has died of hypothermia – the eighth such death amid the Israeli genocide in the enclave.
- US President Joe Biden proposes an $8bn arms sale for Israel, just two weeks before leaving office, ignoring widespread criticism over the mounting death toll in Gaza.
- Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz confirms that indirect negotiations with Hamas have resumed in Qatar for the return of captives held in Gaza.
- Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 45,805 Palestinians and wounded 109,064 since October 7, 2023. At least 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks that day and more than 200 were taken captive.
Biden's decision to block Nippon Steel takeover creates uncertainty for U.S. Steel workers
By PAUL WISEMAN and MARC LEVY
By blocking a Japanese company’s takeover of U.S. Steel, President Joe Biden said he was protecting good jobs in the American heartland. He may be putting them at risk instead.
In making its nearly $15 billion bid for the storied Pittsburgh-based steelmaker, Nippon Steel had promised to invest $2.7 billion in U.S. Steel’s aging blast furnace operations in Gary, Indiana, and Pennsylvania’s Mon Valley. It also vowed not to reduce production capacity in the United States over the next decade without first getting U.S. government approval.
“They were going to invest in the Valley,’’ said Jason Zugai, an operating technician and vice president of the United Steelworkers union local at a U.S. Steel plant in the Mon Valley. “They committed to 10 years of no layoffs. We won’t have those commitments from anybody.’’
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