Japan sets record $52 billion military budget with stealth jets, long-range missiles
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s government approved a ninth consecutive rise in military spending on Monday, funding the development of an advanced stealth fighter and longer-range...
Chinese forces expel US warship from disputed islands in South China Sea
The Chinese military said that it expelled the US warship USS John McCain on Tuesday, when it crossed the waters adjacent to the Chinese Nansha islands without Beijing’s permission,...
North Korea and Biological Weapons: Assessing the Evidence
Executive SummaryNorth Korea’s announcement that it is developing a vaccine for COVID-19 has focused renewed attention on Pyongyang’s purported biological weapons (BW) program. Over the past three years, three...
US announces $2.4 bn sale of coastal defense systems to Taiwan
The United States on Monday said it had approved a $2.4 billion sale of 100 Harpoon coastal defense systems to Taiwan, defying Beijing's anger over a $1 billion missile...
‘Selective’ Bipolarity? From a Coalition of War to a Coalition of Sanctions
The US-China split is evolving into a long-term rivalry. It is unlikely to be affected by the US elections or the mitigation of certain current irritants like the COVID-19...
China holds simultaneous military drills in four seas
China has begun five military exercises simultaneously along different parts of its coast, the second time in two months it will have such concurrent drills against a backdrop of...
US bans WeChat, TikTok from app stores, threatens shutdowns
The U.S. Commerce Department said Friday it will ban Chinese-owned TikTok and WeChat from U.S. app stores on Sunday and will bar the apps from accessing essential internet services...
U.S. pushes arms sales surge to Taiwan, needling China
The United States plans to sell as many as seven major weapons systems, including mines, cruise missiles and drones to Taiwan, four people familiar with the discussions said, as...
New ‘Bionic Eye’ Linked to Chip in Brain Could Cure Blindness
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A team of researchers has built a bionic device that they say can restore vision to the blind through a brain implant.It has been more than...
In race to replace Japan’s Abe, loyalist Suga emerges as strong contender
Yoshihide Suga, a longtime lieutenant of Japan’s Shinzo Abe, has emerged as a strong contender to succeed him as prime minister, an outcome that would extend the fiscal and...
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Historic Win for Left: Gustavo Petro Wins Colombian Elections
Bogota-SANA-Leftist candidate Gustavo Petro maintained a five percentage point difference, with 50 percent, against Rodolfo Hernandez during Colombia’s presidential runoff, with 79.6 percent of...
EU forced to buy Russian oil to prevent Putin from earning even more –...
The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said that the European Union is forced to buy Russian oil so that Putin...
JP Morgan: The Russian economy is doing better than expected after the introduction of...
The large American bank "JP Morgan" estimates that the Russian economy is doing better than expected after the introduction of Western sanctions, and that...
Greenpeace: United Kingdom imported more than $ 275 million in Russian oil during the...
The British government has imported Russian oil worth 220 million pounds ($ 276 million) since Moscow declared war on Ukraine, according to a new...
The Hell of Volnovakha
The battle for this strategically important place was fought for two weeks. With the fall of Volnovakha and the northbound frontline push, a railway...
