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The total market capitalization of Korea-listed companies has surged 74% this year to $4.59 trillion, while Canada’s has climbed about 7% to $4.5 trillion, data compiled by Bloomberg show. Samsung Electronics Co., which recently crossed the $1 trillion valuation mark, and SK Hynix Inc. have both more than doubled this year as their dominance in the AI chip segment …
Appeals Court hits ousted leader with prison term for “resisting arrest”… Sentence added to existing life term for December 2024 Authoritarian push… Judge: Yoon deployed security officials “like a private army” to bypass Cabinet… Courtroom drama: Former First Lady Kim Keon Hee also sees sentence increased to 4 years… South Korea’s ex-President Yoon sentenced to …
Israel just blew up a public high school in Marwahin, South Lebanon. Not a military base. A school. pic.twitter.com/HIGjlmYc13 — sarah (@sahouraxo) April 16, 2026 Factcheck: Yes, the video is Israeli drone footage of a strike demolishing the Marwahin Official Public High School in southern Lebanon today. Lebanese state media (NNA, LBCI) and Education Ministry …
The full charges explained: https://t.co/F0nZFvoFbW — Dexerto (@Dexerto) April 15, 2026 🚨BREAKING🚨 South Korea just sentenced Johnny Somali to 6 months in a labor camp!😂 pic.twitter.com/YcsWbyCeHN — David Santa Carla 🦇 (@TheOnlyDSC) April 15, 2026 Johnny Somali has been sentenced to prison with labor in South Korea, putting an end to the streamer’s legal saga …
by Michael Even the mainstream media is now openly admitting that shortages are coming. But right now I am seeing so much apathy about the war in the Middle East and the global supply chain disruptions that are happening right in front of our eyes. So many people seem to be convinced that the war …
Reporter’s summation of today’s episode from Frontline Africa news podcast: Five things you should take away from this episode. The number one thing is that this is now a four-front war. Iran from the east, Hezbollah from the north, the Houthis from Yemen in the south, the Iraqi militias hitting American targets across the Middle …
This was a localized outage—about 100,000 SDG&E customers in South Orange County (think Mission Viejo, Laguna Niguel) and a sliver of north San Diego County. Not "California went dark," not hundreds of thousands statewide—just a chunk of suburbia blinking out around 9 p.m. last… pic.twitter.com/mZNql3wH7Q — 🇺🇸 MAGARon 🇺🇸 🫡:) 👀 🍿 🇺🇸 (@RonXilla) March …
ISRAEL JUST MADE THE SINGLE MOST DANGEROUS MILITARY DECISION OF THE ENTIRE WAR. AND NOBODY UNDERSTANDS WHAT THEY JUST TRIGGERED. 🚨🚨🚨 Israel and the U.S. struck South Pars — the LARGEST gas field on the planet. But here’s what they either didn’t know or didn’t care about: South Pars is jointly managed by Iran AND …
by confoundedinterest17 What I like about the South. US pending home sales bounced modestly in February (up 1.8% MoM vs -0.6% MoM exp and -10.% MoM prior). Year-over-year home sales continue to decline (down 0.6% YoY). Source: Bloomberg Pending home sales in the South, the biggest home-selling region in the country, increased 2.7%. They rose …
JUST IN – US suspends consulate services in south Turkey, orders non-essential staff to leave — Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) March 9, 2026 BREAKING NEWS: The United States orders its non-essential diplomats to leave southern Turkey. pic.twitter.com/hIEK0Ck9b4 — China pulse 🇨🇳 (@Eng_china5) March 9, 2026 ANKARA: Washington has advised non-essential staff to leave its consulate near …
Green by morning? https://t.co/NqrxcHn0Iw — Acres and Ounces (@RetirementRight) March 8, 2026 The Nasdaq 100 and the S&P 500 should fully recover their pre-market losses by tomorrow’s close, or by the close of the following day. — The Macro Pulse (@TheMacroPulse) March 8, 2026 Watching Oil futures like all of us. He won’t be able …
If Asia’s biggest energy importers are already scrambling, the global fuel shock may only be getting started. BREAKING: China has just told their largest oil refiners to SUSPEND exports of diesel and gasoline. This is NOT good. — Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) March 5, 2026 BREAKING: An oil tanker has been hit by a "large explosion" …
Mac10 @SuburbanDrone This is the story of the stock market year to date as viewed by the equal weight NDX and the World ex-U.S.: Back in late January, U.S. stocks got hit by AI panic – The fear that AI was going to implode sector after sector including many Tech stocks. So Wall Street pundits …
60 Minutes travels to South Africa to investigate President Trump’s claims that White farmers are victims of a genocide that reporters aren’t covering.
The AI boom is fueling the South Korean economy: South Korea exports surged +47% YoY in the first 20 days of February, the strongest reading in at least 2 years byu/RobertBartus inEconomyCharts
Israel has “inadvertently”helped fuel violence in Mexico byu/zosachive_ inconspiracy Yair Klein (Hebrew: יאיר קליין; also known as Jair Klein) is a former lieutenant colonel in the Israeli army, who established a private mercenary company called Spearhead Ltd. Through Spearhead Ltd, Klein provided arms and training to armed forces in South America, Lebanon, and Sierra Leone.[2][3] …
We now know that Israeli tourists were responsible for multiple wildfire incidents in Chile and Patagonia over the years and that those events were likely connected to a long-circulating planned Zionist effort to establish a Jewish state in southern South America. Jimmy and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger cite past reports of Israeli tourists detained or …
US East Coast bomb cyclone could bring heaviest snow in decades to North Carolina A storm will rapidly strengthen along the East Coast this weekend, delivering heavy snow from the Carolinas to New England, with blizzard conditions likely in the hardest-hit areas. Coastal flooding is anticipated. A storm will rapidly intensify along the Atlantic Coast …
President Donald Trump said on Monday he was raising tariffs on U.S. imports of South Korean autos and other goods, blaming the legislature of an ally and a major trading partner for dragging its feet on enacting a deal agreed last year. For South Korea, the decision, which officials in Seoul said caught them by …
Just an observation not an endorsement. pic.twitter.com/sg0ZUHyRh6 — Invisidon (@QuantumAlteredX) January 16, 2026
Agree – that's why I've went 60% of my portfolio into $TLThttps://t.co/dj1X82hKpA — Common Sense Investor (CSI) (@commonsenseplay) January 3, 2026 Last time when the U.S captured another South American leader $SPX had more than 10% correction pic.twitter.com/2sFSm9ZS9c — SwingTrader (@SwingTraderQ) January 4, 2026 I hope China doesn’t seize on U.S. aggression toward Venezuela as …
The U.S. condemns in the strongest terms the South African government’s recent detention of U.S. officials performing their duties to provide humanitarian support to Afrikaners. Furthermore, the public release of our U.S. officials’ passport information is an unacceptable form of harassment. This can only be seen as an attempt to intimidate U.S. government personnel in …
MOB RULES THE STREETS: POLICE BACKPEDAL IN SOUTH LONDON When a pack of young dudes straight up chase off a bunch of cops on a dimly lit street, it makes the officers look totally outmatched and scrambling. This shows it’s not just a South London thing, but a growing lack of respect for law enforcement …
$208 million wiped out: Yieldstreet investors rack up more losses as firm rebrands to Willow Wealth As Yieldstreet tries to distance itself from a rocky past with a new name and ad campaign, its customers are dealing with a present reality that is increasingly dire. The private markets investing startup, freshly rebranded as Willow Wealth, …
ah yes, the renowned communist hellscape of Seoul, South Korea https://t.co/IgVyDOmvid — tea ☕️ (@realteaemoji) November 24, 2025
On Thursday morning, a chartered plane carrying 153 Palestinians from war-torn Gaza – many without the required travel documents – landed at an airport near Johannesburg, leaving South African officials “blindsided”. After nearly 12 hours of scrambling, the group was allowed to disembark into the care of a local charity organisation. More details have emerged …
MAJOR POLICE UPDATE! MASS SHOOTING. WILLIE’S BAR. ST. HELENA ISLAND SOUTH CAROLINA. 4 DEAD. 20 SHOT. SUSPECT ARRESTED. 27-Year-old Anferny Devon Freeman. Authorities have charged a man with murder in a mass shooting that killed four people and injured 15 more last month at a bar on a South Carolina island. Anferny Freeman, 27, was …
Moscow Just Gave Venezuela Air Defenses, Not Ruling Out Strike Missiles. A high-ranking Russian lawmaker claims his government recently sent Venezuela air defense systems and could provide ballistic and cruise missiles in the future. The comments, to an official Russian media outlet, are a response to the ongoing buildup of U.S. forces in the region …
South Korea economy: pic.twitter.com/osdvcez9WU — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) October 30, 2025 “South Korea has agreed to pay the USA 350 Billion Dollars for a lowering of the Tariff’s charged against them by the United States. Additionally, they have agreed to buy our Oil and Gas in vast quantities, and investments into our Country by wealthy …
South Korea this week will host leaders from major Pacific Rim economies, including the United States, China and Japan, for an annual summit that has long championed free trade. (AP video shot by: Yong Ho Kim)