South Korea has charged a former Samsung executive accused of stealing company secrets worth hundreds of millions of dollars to set up a copycat chip factory in China, prosecutors told AFP on Tuesday.. The Suwon district prosecutor's office said he unsuccessfully tried to set up a copycat production facility in the Chinese city of Xian -- where Samsung already has a chip factory.
South Africa has never been touched by Islamist attacks.. It has been a "perceived financial hub for extremist groups for quite a while," he said citing intelligence evidence that suggested Somalia's Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab used South Africa to move funds after the 2013 attack on the Westgate mall in Kenya's capital.
The four Indigenous children rescued after wandering the Colombian Amazon for 40 days are recovering and in "high spirits", welfare officials said Monday, even drawing a picture thought to depict a missing army search dog.. The army released a drawing attributed to the children that depicts Wilson, a rescue dog that went missing during the search.
A Russian missile strike killed three people and wounded 32 in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih on Tuesday, authorities said, as air attacks were reported in Kyiv and other cities.. Air raid alerts were sounded across Ukraine as the capital Kyiv and the northeast city of Kharkiv also came under missile and drone attacks.
Yuriy, a 56-year-old Ukrainian farmer, stands chest-deep in water in his village of Afanasiyivka, gazing around in bewilderment. . Olena Gulyuk, a 59-year-old farmer, comes to the crossing point to get bottled water from volunteers.
Donald Trump is due in court Tuesday to face dozens of felony counts of mishandling US government secrets, in the most serious yet of a firestorm of criminal probes threatening to derail his bid to win back the White House.. The Republican former president's legal woes are only just beginning, as he faces multiple felony counts in a financial fraud case in New York set to go to trial next March.
An inquiry probing the UK government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic kicks off Tuesday with the investigation mired in controversy even before the first witness is called.. A spokeswoman for the inquiry said the chair had not ruled out calling testimony from bereaved people in later phases of the probe.
Following repeated droughts, Canadian farmers are trying to adapt to a new era in agriculture marked by a warming world -- including by trapping snow in their fields, planting heat-resistant crops and seeding earlier in the season.. Some farmers have turned to a century-old solution of planting trees in and around their fields to trap the snow.
From the streets of Caracas to trendy eateries in New York, Paris and Tokyo, the arepa, a humble cornmeal flatbread, is riding a wave of Venezuelan emigration and feeding a craving for exotic and gluten-free food.. - 'Spread our culture' - In Tokyo, Venezuelan expat Raul Marquez, 42, and his Japanese wife Miho advertise "gluten-free, healthy street food" at their food truck selling arepas.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi began a rare diplomatic tour of Latin America on Monday with a first stop in Caracas, where he said his country and Venezuela are "friends" with "common enemies.". "We have common interests, common visions, and common enemies," the president said, without specifying, in remarks to the press alongside Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro.
