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U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth applauds during the ASEAN Plus meeting at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Defense Ministers Meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, November 1, 2025.Vincent Tian | via ReutersPentagon Secretary Pete Hegseth on Saturday accused China of increasing “destabilizing behavior” in the South China Sea and pledged to use technology to help Southeast Asian countries jointly respond to the Chinese threat.The second day in Kuala Lumpur was packed with meetings, including multilateral talks with allies Australia, Japan and the Philippines, with Hegseth proposing to ASEAN defense ministers the creation of a shared maritime domain awareness, saying…

US President Donald Trump has announced that he will place Nigeria on a religious freedom watch list based on vague claims that Christians in the country are being “massacreed” by Muslims.In a social media post on Friday, President Trump explained that African countries will be added to the State Department’s list of “countries of special concern.”Recommended stories list of 3 itemsend of list”Christianity faces an existential crisis in Nigeria,” President Trump wrote. “Thousands of Christians are being murdered. Islamic extremists are responsible for this genocide. I hereby place Nigeria as a ‘Country of Special Concern.'”The Nigerian government has denied such…

Cuba denies U.S. allegations of mercenary activity in Ukraine and says the embargo is a form of collective punishment.Published October 29, 2025October 29, 2025Click here to share on social mediaShare 2shareThe United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly called for an end to the United States’ 33-year economic embargo on Cuba, despite lobbying by the U.S. government, including shared accusations that up to 5,000 Cubans are fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine.The resolution was adopted with 165 votes in favor, 7 votes against, and 12 abstentions. Unlike in previous years, the United States persuaded Argentina, Hungary, North Macedonia, Paraguay, and Ukraine to…

geneva Associated Press — The U.N. human rights chief said Friday that U.S. military attacks on ships in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific believed to be carrying illegal drugs from South America are “unacceptable” and must stop. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk called for an investigation into the strike, which is believed to be the first accusation of its kind by a UN agency. Spokesperson for the Turkish President’s Office, Ravina Shamdasani, delivered her message at a regular UN briefing on Friday: “These attacks and the resulting increased human suffering are unacceptable. The United States must take…

Martin O’Neill made a perfect return for Celtic following the surprise departure of Brendan Rodgers, leading him to a much-anticipated 4-0 win over Falkirk.The veteran manager returned to the Parkhead dugout for the first time in 20 years with “nervous excitement” as he and interim assistant Sean Maloney sought to get the Hoops back to winning ways after a tumultuous few days. Johnny Kenny held his position up front and rewarded O’Neill with a first-half double and headed in the rebound to make it 2-0. image: Martin O’Neill wins first game back as interim manager at Celtic Falkirk, unbeaten in…

Ben Rhodes, who served as vice presidential national security adviser under President Barack Obama, famously referred to Washington’s foreign policy establishment as the “blob” to describe the robust ecosystem of think tanks, former government officials, journalists, and funders that perpetuate a narrow view of power, global order, and legitimate actors. This mechanism not only maintains conservative inertia but also defines the limits of what is considered possible in policy. These self-imposed boundaries have been deadly in Sudan’s two-and-a-half year conflict.A particularly insidious practice within the Blob is the invocation of moral and rhetorical equivalence, depicting the Rapid Support Forces (RSF)…

AI researchers at Andon Labs (the same people who made a fuss by giving Anthropic Claude an office vending machine) have announced the results of a new AI experiment. This time, they programmed a vacuum cleaner robot with a variety of state-of-the-art LLMs as a way to see how ready LLMs are to materialize. They instructed the bot to help in the office when someone asked the bot to “pass the butter.” And once again, something hilarious happened. At one point, one of the LLMs was unable to dock and recharge its dying battery, sending it into a comedic “doom…

BUSAN, South Korea – October 30: U.S. President Donald Trump (R) speaks with Chinese President Xi Jinping during bilateral talks at Gimhae Air Force Base in Busan, South Korea, October 30, 2025. Andrew Harnik | Getty Images News President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping emerged after a high-stakes meeting touting an agreement on tariffs and export controls that amounted to a visible detente in the contentious trade war between the two superpowers.However, many details about what was accomplished remain unclear, while other key issues in the US-China trade relationship do not seem to have surfaced at all. Meanwhile,…

January U.S. Census data shows Americans are flocking to Sunbelt states, and a new report from moveBuddha says that trend remains strong.The relocation technology company used proprietary data collected from 2020 to October 1, 2025 to analyze relocation trends. moveBuddha used the company’s Moving Cost Calculator to calculate rates using an in/out ratio formula based on the number of queries to be moved divided by the number of queries to be moved.Four of the top 10 states people most want to move to are located in the South, according to the report.”The pattern is unmistakable: Americans want square footage for…

Bob Hartheimer, CEO of Evolve Bank & Trust in Tennessee, was fired after U.S. law enforcement officials caught him posing as a 15-year-old boy wooing a law enforcement officer on the gay dating app Grindr.On October 19th, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents logged on. grinder According to an affidavit from a Federal Bureau of Investigation special agent unsealed on Tuesday, a user called “Tom” wrote a message to the person pretending to be a teenage boy saying, “I would love to date an older, cooler guy.”The two discussed meeting in person later this week, according to the affidavit. above snapchatthey…