US airstrikes on Iranian-backed forces a ‘good move’: National security analyst
June 30 (UPI) — Member nations of the International Atomic Energy Agency called out Iran Monday for threats made against Rafael Grossi, the organization’s top official. “Any undermining, sanctioning or even threat against the director general personally or his staff are completely unacceptable,” posted Austria’s Chancellor Christian Stocker to X Monday. The French Ministry for…
WARSAW, June 12 (Reuters) – The U.S. will give Poland a new $4 billion loan from the Foreign Military Financing programme, U.S. Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Thomas DiNanno said on Friday during the inaugural flight of F-35 jets bought from the U.S. DiNanno told PAP news agency the U.S. would offer…
Ukraine is running dangerously low on munitions as efforts to get fresh funds for weapons have stalled amid Republican opposition The Pentagon will rush about $300m in weapons to Ukraine after finding some cost savings in its contracts, even though the military remains deeply overdrawn and needs at least $10bn to replenish all the weapons…
Chinese officials are quietly drawing up a “whitelist” of critical U.S. goods that importers rely on to exempt them from Beijing’s retaliatory tariffs, Reuters reported, citing unnamed people familiar with the matter. Why It Matters The news adds to a growing number of reports from China of businesses discovering that tariffs have been waived on…
Ukraine’s interior minister was among at least 14 people killed after a helicopter crashed near a kindergarten outside Kyiv on Wednesday, authorities said. The cause of the crash, which comes as the country’s war with Russia approaches the 11-month mark, was not immediately clear. At least nine of those killed had been onboard the emergency…
A UK girl born deaf can now hear unaided, after a groundbreaking gene-therapy treatment. Opal Sandy was treated shortly before her first birthday – and six months on, can hear sounds as soft as a whisper and is starting to talk, saying words such as “Mama”, “Dada” and “uh-oh”. Given as an infusion into the…