North Korea has reportedly replaced guards and fortified a section of its border with South Korea where a North Korean soldier staged a daring defection last week, while South Korean and U.S. soldiers have been decorated for their role in his rescue. The North Korean defector was shot and wounded by his fellow soldiers as […]
Read moreAdrian Bonilla lived in a shared house in this Silicon Valley town with his wife and two grandchildren until earlier this year, when the rent for their bedroom jumped to $1,200 from $900 a month. Mr. Bonilla attributed that rise to Facebook, which is based nearby and was growing. So Mr. Bonilla, a 43-year-old mechanic […]
Read moreRetailers are using facial recognition to collect data about customers as they shop in stores, according to an IT company with insight into the space. “One of the big things brick-and-mortar retailers are getting into now is knowing their customers … tracking who’s entering their mall and how they’re behaving,” said Mark Lunt, group managing […]
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China is growing its ties with Kazakhstan as the “Belt and Road” program gets underway. A prime example is the nearly seven-year-old railway container center in China’s ancient capital city of Xi’an that links the world’s second-largest economy to the Central Asia country. Kazakhstan is the so-called inland port’s biggest market, followed by Amsterdam, said […]
Read moreThe Irish government was on the verge of collapse on Thursday after the party whose votes Prime Minister Leo Varadkar depends on to pass legislation said it would move to remove the deputy prime minister in a breach of their cooperation agreement. The crisis comes weeks ahead of a European Union summit in which the […]
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