South Korea pardons Samsung’s Jay Y Lee in bid to revive the economy
By Yoonjung Seo and Gawon Bae, CNN Business The de facto leader of Samsung, Lee Jae-yong, was pardoned by South Korea’s president on Friday for crimes including bribery, allowing him greater freedom to run the smartphone and semiconductor giant. The billionaire was twice sent to prison but had…
Why has the FBI raided Donald Trump’s estate?
by News reporter @LaraKeay, SkyNews It comes amid three separate ongoing investigations into the former president – one in Atlanta for conspiracy to commit electoral fraud during the 2020 election, another in New York into the financial affairs of his real estate company, and a third by a…
Shelling at nuclear power plant
August 6, 2022 By Vasco Cotovio and Tim Lister, CNN Ukrainian officials and international experts have been warning for months of the risk that fighting poses to a sprawling nuclear power plant on the banks of Dnipro River in southern Ukraine. Earlier this week, the global nuclear watchdog…
Poland to buy hundreds of South Korean tanks, howitzers
By Brad Lendon, Yoonjung Seo and Joseph Ataman CNN / July 27, 2022 Poland is buying almost 1,000 tanks, more than 600 pieces of artillery and dozens of fighter jets from South Korea, in part to replace equipment donated to Ukraine to help Kyiv fight the Russian invasion,…
‘Unusual’ death of two Saudi sisters in Sydney
By Mostafa Rachwani, Guardian / July 27, 2022 The deaths of two sisters from Saudi Arabia, found dead in separate rooms in their apartment in Sydney, remain a mystery to police more than a month after their bodies were found. The women, identified as 24-year-old Asra Abdullah Alsehli…
Korean drama “Extraordinary Attorney Woo”
By Patrick Frater, Variety / July 26, 2022 Legal drama “Extraordinary Attorney Woo” is living up to its name following its international success on Netflix. Domestic Korean audiences for the series have spiked, in line with its streaming growth. The drama stars Park Eun Bin as a young female lawyer…
Japan and South Korea’s Attendance at the Upcoming NATO Summit Could Worsen Global Tensions
By Charlie Campbell June 16, 2022 11:12 PM As the military conflict in Ukraine bogs down on a slice of the embattled nation’s eastern and southern periphery, the geopolitical shift sparked by Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion keeps gaining new ground. This week, it emerged that the leaders of…
More than 550 monkeypox cases have been reported in 30 countries
By Virginia Langmaid, Arnaud Siad and Emmet Lyons, CNN The World Health Organization is now counting more than 550 monkeypox cases worldwide, the group’s technical lead for monkeypox, Rosamund Lewis, said Tuesday on CNN International. “We actually have today a count of over 550 confirmed cases in 30…
Don Lemon on Rand Paul with Dr. Fauci
As one of the chief vaccine deniers senator Rand Paul we tried to make Dr Anthony Fauci into his personal punching bag today as they went head to head over the senator’s bogus claims at the national institutes of health somehow played a role in funding research that…
General William McRaven – UT at Austin 2014
Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you, President Powers, Provost finviz. Dean’s members of the faculty, family and friends and most importantly, the class of 2014. It is. It is indeed an honor for me to be here tonight. It’s been almost 37 years to the day…
Air Force Academy Head Tells Racists ‘Get Out’ in Impassioned Speech
Ladies and gentlemen, you may have heard that some people down in the prep school, wrote some racial slurs on some message boards. If you haven’t heard that I wanted you to hear it from me. If you’re outraged by those words, then you’re in the right place.…
Denzel Washington – Motivational Speech
I found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Nothing. Nelson Mandela said, there is no passion to be found, playing small and settling for a life that’s less than the one you are capable of living. Now, I’m sure in your experiences in school…
SHAKIRA – Education Changes the World
“Good morning Your Highness, excellences, friends, and colleagues. I would like to thank you for the opportunity to be here today. It’s also an honor to join forces with Educated Child, an organization led by a woman who is an amazing role model — a woman who has…
Anne Hathaway Speech – Paid Family Leave
“When I was a very young person, I began my career as an actress. Whenever my mother wasn’t free to drive me into Manhattan for auditions, I would take the train from suburban New Jersey and meet my father — who would have left his desk at the…
Priyanka Chopra – Full Power of Women
Good afternoon, and thank you and, wow. I am so privileged and so honored to be sharing this afternoon with all of you and these incredibly amazing women that are being honored today. I’d like to extend my congratulations to each one of you, Octavia, Michelle, Kelly, Patty,…