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  U.S. President Donald Trump and Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia attend the U.S.-Saudi Funding Discussion board in Washington, D.C., U.S., Nov. 19, 2025. REUTERS U.S. President Donald Trump mentioned he desires to fireplace Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. “I’ll be trustworthy, I’d love to fireplace his ass,” Trump mentioned of Powell on the U.S. Saudi Arabia Funding Discussion board held on Nov. 19 on the Kennedy Heart in Washington, D.C. He added, “He is obtained some actual psychological issues. There’s one thing mistaken with him.” The viewers…

Le Sserafim members Sakura and Kazuha have opened up concerning the overwhelming feelings they skilled after acting at Tokyo Dome, one in every of Japan’s most symbolic venues. The group held encore concert events for the “Straightforward Loopy Scorching” tour on the Dome on Nov. 18 and 19, simply three years after their debut.Tokyo Dome is broadly regarded in Japan because the benchmark of mainstream success and a stage most artists by no means attain. For Sakura and Kazuha, who have been each born and raised in Japan, the achievement carried particular private that means.Le Sserafim’s Sakura / Courtesy of…

Samsung E&A officers pose for a commemorative photograph on the MEED Mission Awards ceremony held on Nov. 19 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (Photograph courtesy of Samsung E&A) Samsung E&A has strengthened its place within the world engineering, procurement, and development (EPC) business by successful the celebrated MEED Mission Award, the best recognition within the Center East. Samsung E&A introduced on Nov. 20 that the undertaking it’s finishing up in Saudi Arabia obtained the MEED Mission Award within the vitality class on the awards ceremony held on Nov. 19 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. …

The LPGA Tour will return to the southern coast of Korea for its solely event within the nation subsequent fall.The LPGA launched its 2026 schedule on Wednesday (U.S. native time), with 33 tournaments providing a report purse of $132 million.And for the second consecutive yr, the BMW Women Championship shall be performed at Pine Seaside Golf Hyperlinks in Haenam, South Jeolla Province, from October 22 to 25. It’ll have a handbag of $2.35 million, up from $2.3 million this yr.Kim Sei-young received this yr’s event to turn into the primary Korean champion of the occasion since Ko Jin-young in 2021.The…

MANILA — A Philippine court docket on Thursday sentenced Alice Guo, a Chinese language nationwide who turned a mayor whereas masquerading as a Filipina, and 7 others to life in jail on human trafficking costs, state prosecutors stated.Guo, who served as mayor of a city north of Manila, was discovered responsible of overseeing a Chinese language-operated on-line playing centre the place tons of of individuals had been pressured to run scams or danger torture.The sprawling complicated, which included workplace buildings, luxurious villas and a big swimming pool, was raided in March 2024 after a Vietnamese employee escaped and known as…

Human error was prone to blame for a passenger ferry’s working aground off the southwestern coast this week, the Coast Guard stated Thursday, in spite of everything 267 individuals aboard have been safely rescued.The 26,546-ton Queen Jenuvia II was carrying 246 passengers and 21 crew members when it ran aground on the uninhabited islet of Jok close to Jangsan Island off the coast of Sinan, South Jeolla Province, at 8:17 p.m. Wednesday.Through the first spherical of questioning, crew members instructed the Coast Guard that the navigator in cost on the time was taking a look at his cellphone, leaving the…

An Picture associated to despair multi-omics evaluation (Photograph courtesy of KAIST) Home researchers have revealed that despair just isn’t merely an issue of the thoughts or mind alone, however is intently linked to irregular immune responses all through all the physique. By figuring out the important thing mechanism inflicting despair for the primary time, this discovery is predicted to contribute to future therapeutic growth. The Korea Superior Institute of Science and Know-how (KAIST) introduced on Nov. 20 {that a} joint analysis workforce led by Prof. Han Jin-ju from the Graduate College of Medical Science and…

Okay-pop woman group aespa has been pulled into the deepening diplomatic dispute between China and Japan as a rising variety of Japanese viewers are calling for the removing of Chinese language member Ningning from NHK’s year-end music program, “Kohaku Uta Gassen.”A petition posted on Monday to Change.org is urging broadcaster NHK to cancel aespa’s scheduled look. The petition shortly gained momentum, surpassing 70,000 signatures inside two days. Supporters argue that Ningning’s previous social media publish — the place she shared a backstage photograph that includes an ornamental mild that some critics stated resembled a nuclear mushroom cloud — reveals “an…

SAN FRANCISCO — Nvidia’s gross sales of the computing chips powering the factitious intelligence craze surged past the lofty bar set by inventory market analysts in a efficiency which will ease latest jitters a few Large Tech increase turning right into a bust that topples the world’s most precious firm.The outcomes introduced late Wednesday supplied a pulse test on the frenzied spending on AI expertise that has been fueling each the inventory market and far of the general economic system since OpenAI launched its ChatGPT three years in the past.Nvidia has been by far the largest beneficiary of the run-up…

Non-regular college staff, principally cafeteria cooks and after-school day care service assistants, mentioned Thursday they are going to go on a one-day normal strike in every area over the subsequent two weeks after wage negotiations with the schooling authorities fell by.The Nationwide Faculty Non-regular Staff Solidarity Council, which represents about 94,000 members affiliated with a number of occupational unions, mentioned its one-day normal walkout is about to be staged in Seoul, Incheon, Gangwon, Sejong and the central province of North Chungcheong on Thursday.The council has held collective wage negotiations with the schooling authorities since August however determined to launch the…