North Korean troops will become ‘cannon fodder’ if they join Russia’s war against Ukraine, South Korea says
South Korea’s UN ambassador said that North Korea “has become the most visible, ardent, and committed supporter of Russia’s aggression in Europe.” North Korean troops headed to fight in Ukraine will “end up as mere cannon fodder,” Joonkook Hwang, the South Korean ambassador to the UN, said on Wednesday. Hwang was speaking at a UN…
Ukrainian troops fighting on Russian soil have an advantage they’ve never had in this war
This screengrab from a video released in August shows members of the Ukrainian military in Russia’s Kursk region. Ukrainian troops fighting on Russian soil have a kind of flexibility in combat that they haven’t had before in this war. Ukrainian forces surged into the southwestern Russian region of Kursk in August, and at the peak…
Intel employees face ‘setbacks’ as the company slashes staff, pay, and perks
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger delivers a speech at Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center during Computex 2024, in Taipei on June 4, 2024. January 2023 was a different world for the top American semiconductor companies. Nvidia closed the month trading at $19.52 after reporting revenue down 21%. AMD traded at nearly four times the price of Nvidia.…
Miu Miu is hot right now — and Prada’s chic sibling is helping it buck the luxury slowdown
Miu Miu saw sales jump by 105% in Q3 versus the year before. Prada Group is defying the luxury slowdown thanks to its Miu Miu brand. While its peers like LVMH and Kering reported weak Q3 results, driven in no small part by slumping demand in China, Prada is joining Hermès as one of the…
At 18, she dreamed about moving to Japan. When she turned 50, she quit her job and bought an abandoned home near Osaka.
Chani left Australia to pursue her lifelong dream of living in Japan. Last year, right before her 50th birthday, Chani decided something in her life had to change. She had been working as a Japanese language teacher in a school in Brisbane, Australia, for six years, and her 10-hour workdays were starting to wear on…
Bird flu was detected in a pig, and it could be a tipping point threatening more human transmission
Pigs can be mixing vessels for bird flu and human flu viruses. A bird flu virus has jumped one species closer to a human outbreak. The H5N1 bird flu was detected in a pig in Oregon, the first instance of a swine infection in the US, officials announced on Wednesday. Pigs get both bird flu…
We retired abroad to Cuenca, Ecuador, once the US got too expensive. We still love the expat hot spot 14 years later.
The leap of faith we took moving to Cuenca, Ecuador, has exceeded our wildest dreams. In 2008, we were living the American dream in Las Vegas with high-income careers, beautiful homes, and investments in place so we could take our hard-earned retirement in only a few short years. But then the Great Recession changed everything.…
I left my Big Tech job to bootstrap my own business. I went from making nearly $300,000 to not paying myself a salary.
Soni Mehra launched Marble Lotus, a South Asian-inspired home decor company, in March 2023. This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with Soni Mehra, a 30-year-old who left her job at Uber to start her own home decor company, Marble Lotus. B-17 verified her previous employment at Uber with documentation. The following has…
Inside the battle over America’s hidden homesRealtors’ fight over ‘shadow listings’ spells big trouble for homebuyers
The experience of lying in bed late at night and scrolling through a nearly infinite feed of homes is a modern miracle — not merely because of all the tech packed into your iPhone, but for the simple reason that all those houses are gathered in one place. Open up Zillow, Redfin, or any of…
