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Aug 26, 2025 - World

South Korean president Lee Jae Myung uses Oval Office meeting to encourage Trump to engage with North Korean leaderDonald Trump has said he wants to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, possibly this year, in an attempt to revive the failed nuclear diplomacy of his first term as US president.“I’d like to have a meeting. I look forward to meeting with Kim Jong-un in the appropriate future,” Trump said during an occasionally awkward meeting at the Oval Office with South Korea’s new president, Lee Jae Myung, in which he raised the prospect of taking ownership of South Korean land that hosts a US military base. Continue reading...

Aug 26, 2025 - World

Korean Air has announced a $50 billion deal to buy more than 100 Boeing aircraft and obtain engine maintenance for 20 years

Aug 25, 2025 - World

In the first six months of this year there were 80 incidents of piracy and armed robbery in the strategic waterwaysIncidents of piracy and armed robbery in the straits of Malacca and Singapore have nearly quadrupled in the strategic waterways this year, according to a new report from an anti-piracy monitoring group.In the first six months of this year there were 80 incidents of piracy and armed robbery in the straits, according to ReCAAP’s Information Sharing Centre (ISC). In the same period last year there were 21 incidents. Continue reading...

Aug 25, 2025 - World

A retired American general tore into President Donald Trump and said his latest threats to send the National Guard into Democratic-run cities are merely a tactic to distract his base and the media, likening it to "catnip."Major General William Enyart joined MSNBC on Monday afternoon to discuss Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker's (D) blistering speech, hitting back at Trump's plans to send troops to Chicago. "A barnburner of a speech from Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, who told the people of Illinois in no uncertain terms that what Donald J. Trump plans to do in his city is, 'unprecedented, illegal, unconstitutional, and un-American,' urging him publicly with the city's business, faith and elected officials, 'Do not come to Chicago,'" noted host Nicolle Wallace. She added that Pritzker made a "salient, indisputable fact" that 13 of the top 20 cities when it comes to homicide rates are led by Republicans. Additionally, eight Republican-led states have the top homicide rates.Enyart said Pritzker made a "spot-on speech." "Trump desperately needs to cling on to power. And I think the reason that he is taking these actions is distraction, distraction, distraction," he said. Enyart then hit back at Trump's claims with statistics of his own."The price of hamburger a year ago today: $5.35 a pound. Hamburger today: $6.98 a pound. That's a 33% increase. Coffee $6.32 a year ago. Today, it's $8.41 a pound, another 30-plus percent. Food prices have gone up every single month, but one, since Trump took office," he noted. Enyart called out Trump for vowing to drive food prices down."Yet another lie. He can't afford to face truth. And that's why he has to have distraction," he railed.Enyart called Trump's use of the National Guard in Washington, D.C., and proposal to do the same in Chicago simply that. "He is doing it in order to provide a distraction to his base and to, frankly, to most of the news media so they'll chase that catnip," he said, calling Trump's tariffs a "failure," along with his negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin. "Corn prices have cratered. Corn prices are 40% down from what they were under the Biden administration," he added. Soybean prices for farmers, he added, are down more than 50% since Biden's administration. "China used to buy 60% of their soybeans from the United States farmers. Today? 20%. Brazil took those. Why? Trump's tariffs. His policies are incredibly unpopular, and so he needs to put on a show. He is a mastermind at showmanship, and that's what he is doing."See the video below or at the link here. - YouTube www.youtube.com

Aug 25, 2025 - World

Lee Jae Myung, the president of South Korea, met with President Donald Trump on Monday at the White House, where the two talked about, among other things, their relationship with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.In an Oval Office conversation, Trump gushed about his desire to get the two leaders together. "Yeah, we want to have a meeting. I'd like to have a meeting," Trump told Lee. "I get along great with him when we were there. We even had a press conference. His first press conference. Kim Jong Un had a press conference. This was a little different press conference. I said, have you done a press conference before? And you know what? He did a great! It was a great press conference, actually. Actually historic. I doubt he's done one since. But I said, 'Would you like to meet the fake news? What do you want to do?' And they came in — they came in, and you've never seen anything like it. And then he said, 'Enough!' And that was the end of the press conference." Trump's Cabinet officials on the sofa around him laughed boisterously. Lee then made a comment prompting some on social media to question if it was a joke. The Irish Star reported it as a joke, though it wasn't clear. “I look forward to your meeting with Kim Jung Un,” and “construction of Trump Tower in North Korea, and playing golf at a place," Lee said through a translator.Kim has promoted the idea of a North Korea resort town on the beach. His government published photos of families playing in the ocean in July, but a closer look at the photo reveals that most of the women are wearing the same swimsuit top. "The Korean people have great expectations for you, Mr. President. Thank you once again for your time," Lee added. See the clip below or at the link here. - YouTube youtu.be