North and South Korea have adopted different approaches to dealing with their falling birth rates and impending population decline. North Korea’s fertility rate, or number of children expected per woman’s lifetime, is 1.78 births per woman, according to projections by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). South Korea is at 0.72, the lowest in the … Read more
After the explosions in Lebanon, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant announced a “new phase” of the war. The focus is on the “northern front,” several Israeli media outlets said Wednesday, citing Gallant’s office. The Israeli army and the Lebanese Hezbollah militia have been engaged in clashes on Israel’s northern front for months. Forces and resources … Read more
Protesters in New York demanded accountability after police shot a suspected fare evader at a busy subway station, hitting a bystander in the head. The man, Gregory Delpeche, remains in hospital in critical condition and has undergone cranial surgery, according to US media. Police said two officers shot the suspected toll evader on Sunday after … Read more
SRINAGAR, India – Voters lined up outside polling stations in India’s Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday to cast their ballots in the first provincial election to be held in a decade in the Himalayan region that has faced years of militant violence. The nine million registered voters choose members for the region’s 90-seat legislature in … Read more
HONG KONG – An electronics manufacturer in Taiwan said on Wednesday that it did not make the pagers used by members of the militant group Hezbollah that exploded simultaneously in Lebanon on Tuesday, killing at least nine people. More than 2,750 others were injured in the blasts, according to Lebanon’s health ministry, including Iran’s ambassador … Read more
This was supposed to be the week. Former President Donald Trump’s legal work was about to reach its first dramatic conclusion. Fifty days from a presidential election in which he is the Republican candidate, Mr. Trump would be sentenced in a Manhattan courtroom. Why we wrote this A focused story The US justice system is … Read more
Mortgage interest rates may not fall dramatically this week. Getty Images/iStockphoto The moment the borrowers have been waiting for is fast approaching. After the fight with the highest federal funds rates In decades, the Federal Reserve is preparing to issue its first rate cut since 2020 as it meets this week. After the two-day meeting, … Read more