SEOUL, 25th March 2025 (BSS/AFP) – Han Jong-hee, the co-CEO of Samsung Electronics and a key figure in elevating the South Korean tech giant’s television business globally, passed away on Tuesday at the age of 63 due to a heart attack, the company confirmed. A spokesperson for Samsung stated, “He died from cardiac arrest today,” […]

ISTANBUL, 25 March 2025 (BSS/AFP) – Large crowds of students flooded the streets of Istanbul on Monday in the latest wave of protests following the arrest and imprisonment of the city’s opposition mayor, an event that has triggered Turkey’s most significant unrest in years. The demonstrations erupted after the 19 March detention of Ekrem Imamoglu […]

BEIJING, 25 March 2025 (BSS/AFP) – China has released five local employees of an American due diligence firm who had been detained for more than two years amid a broader crackdown on foreign consultancies operating in the country, the company confirmed on Tuesday. In March 2023, Mintz Group announced that Chinese authorities had detained five […]

GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories, 25 March 2025 (BSS/AFP) – An Israeli air strike on Monday claimed the life of a journalist working with Al Jazeera, as the military issued fresh evacuation orders for parts of northern Gaza, intensifying its bombardment and ground operations in the besieged territory. Israel resumed large-scale airstrikes last Tuesday, followed by […]

BEIRUT, 25 March 2025 (BSS/AFP) – An Israeli drone strike killed one person in southern Lebanon late on Monday, following a weekend of intensified aerial attacks in the region, state media reported. “A raid by an enemy Israeli drone on a vehicle in the area of Qaqaiyat al-Jisr left one dead,” stated the National News […]

UNITED NATIONS, 25 March 2025 (BSS/AFP) – The United Nations has warned that reductions in international aid could halt decades of progress in reducing child mortality and may even reverse these hard-won gains. A joint annual report from UNICEF, the World Health Organization (WHO), and the World Bank highlights the potential consequences of declining financial […]

SAN SALVADOR, 25 March 2025 (BSS/AFP) – A legal team commissioned by Caracas has submitted a petition to El Salvador’s Supreme Court, seeking the release of 238 Venezuelans who were deported from the United States and detained in a high-security prison in the Central American nation. Invoking rarely-used wartime legislation, US President Donald Trump ordered […]