BALLOON BARRAGE

South Korea is set to deploy laser weapons to combat North Korean drones, costing $1.45 per shot and developed by Hanwha Aerospace. The weapons have a 100 per cent successful shoot-down rate in tests and potential future capabilities to counter airc...

Hezbollah, responding to Israeli airstrikes, has adopted low-tech strategies such as landline phones, pagers, and coded messages to evade surveillance. It also employs drones to monitor and attack Israeli intelligence. The conflict, linked to Hamas'...

North Korea sent more than 300 trash-filled balloons across the border in a fresh blitz starting Saturday, Seoul's military said, with the president's office saying this had forced it to take "corresponding measures". "Although the measures we are t...

​More than 8 million people of color served with the Allies, and the series digs deep to focus on how some fared at D-Day, Dunkirk, Pearl Harbor and the Battle of the Bulge.

North Korea allegedly fired a barrage of short-range ballistic missiles towards the eastern sea. The move drew condemnation from South Korea and Japan amidst heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula. The launches followed a failed attempt to laun...

North Korea fired ballistic missiles after a failed spy satellite launch. Kim's regime claimed satellite launch failures. The UN Security Council will meet to discuss the launch.

Hezbollah has regularly fired missiles across the border with Israel over the past seven months, but the one on Thursday appears to have been the first successful missile airstrike it has launched from within Israeli airspace. The group has stepped ...

Hezbollah launched a drone attack on an Israeli military post this week, injuring three soldiers. The group has increased missile strikes on Israel, using advanced weaponry and drones. Hezbollah's actions are seen as a message to Israel amid escalat...

The hit to Tesla’s market capitalization to start the year is the biggest the company has seen over a similar period since it went public in 2010. In percentage terms, Tesla’s 12% drop since the start of January is the worst since 2016, when the sto...

The incidents came a week after the United States blasted a Chinese spy balloon out of the sky that was equipped with an antenna meant to pinpoint the locations of communications devices and was capable of intercepting calls made on those devices.

China's bigger threat, he said, is to the US economy. Like many throughout the country, Miller wonders if stricter laws are needed to bar farmland sales to foreign nationals so power over agriculture and the food supply doesn't end up in the wrong h...

In Congress and statehouses, the balloon's journey added traction to decades-old concerns about foreign land ownership. U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, a Democrat, is sponsoring legislation to include agriculture as a factor in national security decisions all...

One nightmare scenario envisions the Covid pandemic left to rage out of control amid a steady barrage of new variants, even as a separate strain sparks a parallel pandemic. Confusion and disinformation would shrink trust in authorities and science, ...

The demand for professional coaches has risen after the pandemic.

Shares of GameStop, AMC Entertainment, Koss Corp and BlackBerry all dropped at least 20% moments after the shuttering of the forum, highlighting the role it has played in fueling stock rallies that many say have been driven primarily by retail inves...

Lawsuits are being watched closely in India. Creditors seeking to recover something from hundreds of billions of dollars of soured corporate loans are nervous. Successful bidders may try to use the pandemic to wriggle out of commitments — or stall p...

Ecuadorian protests, meantime, escalated after President Lenin Moreno ended fuel subsidies.

Social commerce cos are helping people in small towns, particularly women, earn a living from their homes.

Delayed shipments, defective products and orders cancelled by sellers who run out of stock are testing the patience of eager online shoppers.