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'US working to improve early warning system against N.Korean missile launches'
Dickinson said the Space Command is currently working to integrate existing US assets into "an architecture where we can provide both the US and our allies and partners as much advanced warning as possible", adding, "We are also looking at how we can incorporate commercial sensors in the same respect." His remarks come after a recent series of North Korean missile launches, Yonhap news agency reported.
US and South Korea to co-host 'Summit for Democracy' next March
The co-hosts of the virtual event will also include three more representatives of each continent -- the Netherlands (Europe), Zambia (Africa) and Costa Rica (Latin America) -- Yoon's office was quoted as saying by Yonhap news agency. The presidential office said the upcoming summit is expected to offer an opportunity to continuously expand the nation's horizon of value diplomacy by sharing its democratisation experience and anti-corruption efforts with the international community.
Chinese bots flood Twitter with porn to hide posts about violent protests
Earlier, searches for major Chinese cities resulted in ads for escorts/ porn/ gambling as protests turned violent. Stanford University's Mengyu Dong shared images on Twitter of some of the dubious "escort ads", which she said "make it more difficult for Chinese users to access information about the mass protests," reports New York Post.
Tanks on streets of China rekindles fears of Tiananmen Square
A video shows a steady stream of tanks trundling through the eastern city of Xuzhou on Monday night, Daily Mail reported. The footage will rekindle memories of the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989, when hundreds - if not thousands - of Chinese protesters were killed by soldiers in tanks, the report said.
England becoming less white and Christian
The number of people in England and Wales identifying their ethnic group as white has fallen by around 500,000 over a decade, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said, Daily Mail reported. Some 81.7 per cent of residents in England and Wales described themselves as white on the day of the 2021 census, down from 86 per cent a decade earlier.
New subvariants account for over half of new Covid cases in US
BQ.1.1 made up about 29.4 per cent of circulating variants in the week ending November 26, and BQ.1 was estimated to make up 27.9 per cent, Xinhua news agency reported citing the CDC data released on Monday. The two variants are descendants of Omicron's BA.5 subvariant. They have replaced BA. 5 to be the dominant strains in the US, said the CDC.
Chinese universities send students home after protests
University sources in Shanghai and Sichuan told RFA that the Ministry of Education had convened an emergency meeting of hundreds of ruling Chinese Communist Party secretaries and college principals across the country, calling on them to counter "interference by foreign forces", after spontaneous protests on city streets and university campuses in over a dozen cities over the weekend.
US weekly flu hospitalisations hit record high since 2010
Seasonal influenza activity is elevated across the country, Xinhua news agency quoted the CDC as saying on Monday. Five flu-associated paediatric deaths were reported in the week ending November 19, which increased the overall number to 12, according to the CDC.
Police clampdown in China after days of protests
A heavy police presence has been reported in several cities, and some gatherings were quelled or failed to materialise, reports the BBC. Reports have emerged of people being questioned and their phones searched. But overseas Chinese have continued protesting, in at least a dozen cities across the world. The weekend demonstrations, a rare sight in China, had grown after a fire in a high-rise block in Urumqi, western China, killed 10 people on November 24.
International students contribute 5 bn euros a year to French economy: Survey
Some 9,992 international students who had stayed in France in the past three years took part in the survey conducted by Campus France, a public institution that promotes French higher education abroad and welcomes foreign students and researchers to the country.
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