Christine Johns

In South Korea, the ruling party won a landslide in Wednesday's elections for mayors and provincial governors. That is apparent from the official results on Thursday, which give the recently elected president Yoon Suk-yeal a boost.…

The German government is sending Ukraine an anti-aircraft defence system. Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced in parliament on Wednesday that Ukraine will receive the IRIS-T system, Germany's most modern anti-aircraft defence system. …

The easing of the lockdown in the Chinese city of Shanghai on June 1 will be extended even further than was initially announced on Monday. Shopping centres and other shops are allowed to open again and residents of "low-risk" areas…

Heavy rains have already killed at least 84 people in northeast Brazil. This is evident from the most recent balance sheet from the authorities. Earlier there were 79 dead and 56 missings. Nearly 4,000 people have lost their homes.…

Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky on Thursday accused Russia of carrying out a "genocide" in Donbas, in the east of the country. Russia is guilty of “deportation” and “mass murder of civilians,” President Zelensky said in his daily…

In response to ballistic missile tests, the United States plans to impose tougher sanctions on North Korea. That's why the US will vote on a resolution in the United Nations Security Council, a US government official says. The vote will…

Professional networking is mostly studied in an offline context, but since the pandemic ushered a global shift online, we’re paying more attention to how virtual networking can be done. According to an article on networking from …

North Korea has fired three ballistic missiles toward the Sea of Japan, South Korea's military said. The launches came just after US President Joe Biden left the region. South Korea's joint chiefs of staff said the three ballistic…

The leaders of the United States, Japan, India and Australia will meet in Tokyo on Tuesday about the increasing threat from China to Taiwan and the conflict in Ukraine. There is also talk about corona vaccines and the climate. On…

Food prices are rising around the world and those price increases threaten to push an additional 263 million people into extreme poverty by the end of this year. Oxfam writes this in a report that will be published on Monday. The…