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Israel planned a stronger counterattack against Iran, but chose a more limited strike after allies, including the US, urged restraint, per the NYT.

Elon Musk may have a point about the actions of Brazil's supreme court over concerns about content moderation.

Donghua Jinlong, a Chinese company that manufactures glycine, is becoming a meme among Gen Z on TikTok for no meaningful reason.

A Korean mailman was sentenced to six months in prison for discarding 16,000 pieces of mail. He blamed being overworked during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Zhong Shanshan, the owner of bottled water company Nongfu Spring, is accused of subtly planting Japanese themes into his firm's product marketing.

Despite China's food delivery business doubling in the last three years to $208B, the gig workers fueling the industry face poor working conditions.

The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources on Saturday accused Chinese fishermen of trying to "intentionally destroy" the Scarborough Shoal.

The 2023 assessment didn't account for military research spending, or consider how China pays its soldiers far less than the US, the researchers said.

The experts, including former Trump and Obama officials and retired researchers in the PLA, posited four probable scenarios, none of which were positive.

The weeks-long delay cost the world valuable time in creating COVID-19 vaccines and treatments, the US House & Energy Committee said.

"The accuracy is unsatisfactory," one analyst wrote. China has been watching the Kinzhal keenly as it faces off against US Patriot systems in Ukraine.

Zhang Xiaopei, former party secretary of Jilin, used the billboard as an "overpass bridge to his power," state media reported in a new documentary.

Kai Zhuang, 17, was found living alone in a tent at freezing temperatures at the direction of scammers, police said.