Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Chinese industry minister Jin Zhuanglong held talks on "new energy vehicles" Wednesday, Beijing said.. The two "exchanged views on the development of new energy vehicles and intelligent connected vehicles", China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said in a readout on its website.
An emergency evacuation alert sent in error across Seoul over a North Korean rocket launch triggered widespread panic on Wednesday, crashing internet services and raising fears the government could not be trusted to handle a real crisis.. The alert was triggered after North Korea launched a rocket carrying a military spy satellite, which crashed into the sea.
Two of late Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic's spy chiefs face an appeals judgment Wednesday in the final Hague war crimes trial from the 1990s Bosnian conflict.. Former Kosovan president Hashim Thaci is currently on trial for war crimes at a separate tribunal in The Hague. dk/jhe/pvh
In his four years as president, Nayib Bukele has shaken up El Salvador: consolidating power, making Bitcoin legal tender and waging a "war" on gangs that's earned him opprobrium from rights groups but adoration from a crime-fatigued nation.. But it came at the cost of "implementing an emergency regime that implies the disappearance of the rule of law and supremacy of the constitution," he told AFP. - Bitcoin gamble - Another bold Bukele move was to make Bitcoin legal tender in El Salvador's dollarized economy -- the first country in the world to do so.
The United Nations said Tuesday it is ready to start salvage work on an oil tanker stranded off Yemen's coast with more than one million barrels of crude that pose an acute risk to the environment.. The Safer's 1.1 million barrels are four times as much oil as that which spilled in the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster off Alaska, one of the world's worst ecological catastrophes, according to the UN. The salvage operation, which will cost an estimated more than $140 million, has been assigned to a company called SMIT Salvage.
North Korea has fired what it claims is a "space launch vehicle", the South's military said early Wednesday, prompting confusion in Seoul as the city briefly issued an evacuation warning in error.. Japan briefly activated its missile alert warning system for the Okinawa region early Wednesday, lifting it after about 30 minutes.
UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi on Tuesday urged Ukraine and Russia to adhere to "concrete principles" to prevent nuclear catastrophe at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant.. Ahead of Ukraine's expected counteroffensive, fears have increased that a nuclear disaster could occur amid increased military activity.
NATO's chief voiced guarded optimism Tuesday on welcoming Sweden to the alliance as the United States pressed holdout Turkey to drop its objections, two days after President Tayyip Recep Erdogan won re-election. . Blinken said the United States wanted the process to be "completed in the weeks ahead" but stopped short of saying if he was certain it would be finished by the summit.
An American man on trial for massacring 11 Jewish worshippers in the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in US history methodically tracked down victims at a synagogue, prosecutors said in opening arguments Tuesday.. Bowers "methodically" tracked down his victims and shot many of them multiple times and at close range, a federal prosecutor told the court, according to US media.
Tensions are running high in Kosovo after the election of ethnic Albanian mayors in Serb-majority towns, yet another divisive issue that has raised fears of a new regional crisis.. -- Row over mayors -- The majority Serb community in the northern towns stayed away from the ballot box at April's local elections, thus allowing ethnic Albanians in the troubled territory to take control of local councils despite a minuscule turnout of under 3.5 percent of voters.
