Saturday, June 1, 2024

North Korea sends more 'filth'-filled balloons into South, Seoul says

A balloon is seen over a rice field.

North Korea launched more trash-carrying balloons toward the South after a similar campaign earlier in the week, according to South Korea's military, in what Pyongyang calls retaliation for activists flying anti-North Korean leaflets across the border.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/north-korea-south-trash-garbage-balloons-1.7222014?cmp=rss

Boeing's Starliner launch called off in latest delay of astronaut flight

A rocket stands against a blue sky.

source https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/boeing-nasa-starliner-launch-1.7221895?cmp=rss

ANC party loses its 30-year parliamentary majority in South Africa

An election worker empties a ballot box.

The African National Congress party lost its parliamentary majority in a historic election result Saturday that puts South Africa on a new political path for the first time since the end of the apartheid system of white minority rule 30 years ago.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/south-africa-election-1.7221871?cmp=rss

Unmasking of elderly U.S. spies shows there's no age limit on getting busted

A file photo from July 8, 2022, shows an exterior view of a portion of the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, Va.

The United States has busted some spies lately who are old enough to qualify for retirement benefits. These cases  — and others that came before them — demonstrate that there's no age-limit on being held accountable for spying.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/aging-spies-us-cases-1.7216652?cmp=rss