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CHINA JUST KILLED THE SILICON TAX 48 hours . That is how long Trump's Nvidia deal survived before Beijing unveiled its response. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

South Korea’s entertainment industry is ending 2025 in turmoil as a rapid succession of revelations and allegations engulf some of its biggest stars. Actor Cho Jin-woong’s abrupt retirement, comedienne Park Na-rae’s escalating legal battle with her former managers and comedian Jo Se-ho’s alleged ties to organised crime have left TV networks scrambling and the industry on edge. Hosted on Acast. See...

Skild AI, backed by NVIDIA and Softbank is aiming to create a super unique robot omni brain by training a regiment of 100,000 different simulated robots across a "millennia of simulated time" Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Russia on Wednesday said it was still awaiting a formal answer from Washington on President Vladimir Putin's proposal to jointly stick to the last remaining Russian-U.S. arms control treaty, which expires in less than two months. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Work will begin to adopt the declaration in Moldova in May 2026 following a meeting of ministers in Strasbourg on Wednesday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

South Korea deployed military aircraft after seven Russian warplanes and two Chinese aircraft entered an air identification zone maintained by Seoul. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cambodia’s  powerful Senate President  Hun Sen  on Tuesday vowed a fierce fight against  Thailand  as a second day of  widespread renewed combat between the Southeast Asian neighbors drove tens of thousands of people to flee border areas. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The PLAN’s deployments – the biggest to date – stretched from the southern Yellow Sea through the East and South China Seas and deep into the Western Pacific. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The troubling lack of data behind Australia's social media ban on children Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

US sanctions Colombian citizens for recruiting fighters for Sudan’s war Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

President Donald Trump is doubling down on his increasingly harsh criticism of the U.S.’s European allies as he faces pushback from European leaders over his Administration's new  national security strategy , calling Europe “weak” and “decaying” and intensifying his attacks on its migration policies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

These comments will do nothing to reassure European leaders concerned about the anti-EU outbursts over the weekend coming from the American right. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Pope Leo XIV and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky “focused on the war in Ukraine” when they met at the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo this morning, Dec. 9, the Vatican said.   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

IndiGo continued facing criticism as flight disruptions entered continued for the eighth consecutive day on Tuesday, with over 400 cancellations across major cities. Parallelly, Centre ordered the airline to curtail its operations by 10 per cent on Tuesday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Tuesday that criticism of liberties in the bloc should be aimed elsewhere and at "Russia perhaps", referring to a White House strategy document critical of EU policies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Japan is threatening China militarily which is "completely unacceptable", Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his German counterpart, after Japan said that Chinese fighter jets had aimed their radar at Japanese military aircraft. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Trump admin is ‘trying to put out a fire they started’ at Weather Service as a cold, snowy winter looms Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lithuania’s  government on Tuesday declared a national emergency over security risks posed by meteorological  balloons  sent from Russia-allied  Belarus  that have violated its airspace in recent weeks, while the Belarusian leader called for negotiations on border tensions and said his country “does not need war.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information...

Justice Department can unseal Ghislaine Maxwell sex trafficking case records, judge says Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Shadow drone war against is the new war led by countries Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Discussions among regulators come as Beijing seeks to achieve self-sufficiency in semiconductor production Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Comedian Park Na-rae, who has been embroiled in allegations of power abuse and embezzlement against her manager, now faces new accusations of receiving illegal medical treatment. In response, Park’s side has refuted the claims, stating, “The medical services were legal” and “We believed the so-called ‘Injection Auntie’ had a valid medical license,” sparking a heated dispute over the truth. Hosted...

  German Chancellor Friedrich Merz  said Tuesday that the Trump administration’s  new national security strategy  underscores the need for Europe to become “much more independent” from the United States in terms of security policy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

France has confirmed it provided surveillance, observation and logistical backing to Benin’s armed forces during the weekend’s attempted coup, stepping in at the request of the authorities in Cotonou as loyalist troops moved to regain control.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Trump to issue ‘one rulebook’ AI executive order after Congress fails to curb ‘bad actor’ states... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.