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Atlanta News First at 7: North Korean agents steal cryptocurrency from Atlanta business, officials say
Atlanta News First - Georgia
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June 30, 2025
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Four North Korean agents were indicted for allegedly stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency from an Atlanta business, according to prosecutors. Second man dies after weekend shooting at...
Grandmother survives Russia plane crash that killed 48 after ‘miracle’ decision to disembark
The Independent
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July 25, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Smuggled, expired, and deadly: Inside N. Korea’s contraceptive underground
Daily NK
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June 29, 2025
Last year, Daily NK reported that black market merchants in Chongjin, North Hamgyong province, were secretly selling expired Chinese-made contraceptives to teenagers and young adults. Our follow-up investigation reveals that high demand has...
Breaking the Silence of North Korea
The Korea Times
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June 29, 2025
Growing up in North Korea, I never imagined freedom. I never imagined speaking in another language, traveling abroad or standing in front of strangers telling my story. But earlier this month, I did all of those things on a single trip. I’m a...
DOJ Data Security Program – Another Privacy and Security Law that Impacts the Health Care Industry
JD Supra - California
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July 11, 2025
Any health care organization that is engaged in data brokerage transactions or licensing arrangements may have compliance obligations under DSP. In this Health Care Update, we will review the provisions of DSP and discuss its impact on health care...
‘No justice in North Korea’: Defectors at UN hearing testify about executions, mounting abuses by regime
Korea JoungAng Daily
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June 26, 2025
Published: 27 Jun. 2025, 07:00 Audio report: written by reporters, read by AI Defector Maeng Hyo-shim speaks about her experience living and escaping North Korea during a public hearing hosted by the United Nations Human Rights Office in Seoul on...
What South Korea’s New President Means for Japan-North Korea Relations
The Diplomat
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June 26, 2025
The election of Lee Jae-myung as South Korea’s president has returned inter-Korean diplomacy to the regional spotlight. While Lee has yet to lay out a fully detailed roadmap, his early messaging points to a more cautious and conditional posture...
Karoline Leavitt accused of 'putting North Korean propagandists to shame'
The Mirror US
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June 26, 2025
14:07 ET, 26 Jun 2025Updated 14:55 ET, 26 Jun 2025 Karoline Leavitt was slammed online for her press conference on Thursday, with several social media users likening her spiel to North Korean and Russian propaganda. The White House press secretary...
Pyongyang police crackdown on teen mobile payments
Daily NK
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July 3, 2025
Police in Pyongyang have started an emergency crackdown after discovering that high school students in the capital’s central districts made over 150 mobile payments in just six months. Authorities worry that easy access to electronic payments is...
Abu Dhabi hospital reveals new brain scan to detect Alzheimer's earlier
The National News
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A scan that can detect Alzheimer’s disease before memory loss begins is now available in the UAE for the first time. The amyloid PET scan, recently launched at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, is a milestone in the region’s fight against...
Only one nation is self-sufficient in healthy food
Resilience
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July 9, 2025
Over a third of all countries cannot meet self-sufficiency for more than two of the seven essential food groups. Low self-sufficiency and over-dependence on a few countries for imports threaten their capability to respond to global shocks,...
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, July 24, 2025
Critical Threats - Washington D.C.
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Click here to see ISW’s interactive map of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This map is updated daily alongside the static maps present in this report. Click here to see ISW's interactive map of Ukraine's offensive in Kursk Oblast. Click here to...
Can The Kremlin Really, Finally Get Russians To Stop Using YouTube? Not Yet. (But Soon)
Radio Free Europe - Radio Liberty
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July 24, 2025
For years, Russian tech regulators have gnashed their teeth at the reach of YouTube, the video platform that is a major source of largely uncensored news, information, and entertainment -- not to mention a major source of income for many Russian...
Bombastic Bullying Brutes
Fat Tail Daily
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July 25, 2025
Oswald Spengler foresaw the peak of Western Civilization coming around the year 2000. Now that we are a quarter of a century into the down cycle, the real questions for us remain the same. ‘We are born into this time and must bravely follow the...
We’re All Palestinians Now
TomDispatch
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July 24, 2025
The United States has focused on the Middle East since World War II, seeking its oil, gas, and other mineral resources and coveting control of its strategic waterways. The old colonial powers and the superpowers of the Cold War era most often...
Trump Brings the Authoritarianism We Propped up in the Middle East Back Home
Common Dreams
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July 24, 2025
The United States has focused on the Middle East since World War II, seeking its oil, gas, and other mineral resources and coveting control of its strategic waterways. The old colonial powers and the superpowers of the Cold War era most often...
Squid Game season 3 ending explained: Will there be another Squid Game happening?
Business Upturn
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July 24, 2025
One month after Squid Game Season 3 came out, it’s still in the top 10 most-watched shows on Netflix UK. People are still watching it and talking a lot about how the season ended. The new season picks up right after Season 2 ends. Gi-hun had tried...
Veterans to receive gift packages to mark “Victory Day” on July 27
NK Insider
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July 24, 2025
War veterans at an event last year marking the 71st anniversary of Victory Day. (Image: KCNA) The North Korean regime is to provide gifts to war veterans in commemoration of the 72nd anniversary of the signing of the Korean War armistice on July...
CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) Stock Price Prediction and Forecast 2025-2030 (July 2025)
24/7 Wall St.
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July 24, 2025
Forecasts 24/7 Wall St. Published: July 24, 2025 10:20 am Last Updated: July 24, 2025 10:25 am A year after a major global outage caused by a faulty software update, CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: CRWD) has demonstrated a remarkable recovery....
Doctor fights disease and war in two Koreas
Youth Journalism International
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July 3, 2025
Yeouido, Seoul, South Korea – A doctor with roots in both South Korea and America traveled 29 times to North Korea – a place usually out of reach – to fight disease. “Even though North Korea is not that friendly with South Korea or the United...