North Korea: Kim Jong Un praises troops who 'self-blasted' to avoid captureReuters via KCNAKim said those who "unhesitatingly opted for suicide... to defend the great honour" were "heroes"Kim Jong Un has praised North Korean soldiers who killed themselves by detonating their grenades while fighting for Russia against Ukraine, confirming a long-suspected battlefield policy.In a speech this week,...

Is Germany looking again at coal-powered electricity?They have a word for it in German – kohleausstieg, which means "coal phase out".Germany is the biggest user of coal for power generation in Europe, and the fourth largest in the world after China, India and the US. But it has pledged to stop using it altogether by 2038.For lignite, the low-quality soft coal that is the most polluting, Germany...

Three firefighters die battling huge wildfires in ColoradoThree firefighters were killed and two were injured while battling massive wildfires on the Colorado-Utah border on Saturday, officials say.The firefighters were part of a federal response team assigned to the Knowles and Gore fires. They were suddenly overwhelmed by flames and tried to take shelter, the Department of the Interior...

These are the countries moving to ban social media for children Over the past months, many countries have announced plans to restrict social media access for children and teens. Australia became the first to implement such measures at the end of last year, setting a precedent that other countries are now closely watching. The U.K. is the latest country to announce that it will impose a ban...

Zhu Rongji, who drove China's 1990s economic reforms, has died at 97 Then-Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji arrives at Hong Kong's international airport on Nov. 18, 2002, for the opening of the World Congress of Accountants....