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Jan 25 (Reuters) – A contingent of Russian military personnel flew into Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou on Wednesday in what appeared to be the first significant deployment of Russian troops to the West African country, two foreign security sources said on Thursday. The junta-led country’s relations with Moscow have been in the spotlight since it booted…
CNN — Astronomers using a giant network of sensors, still under construction at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, have found the highest-energy cosmic “ghost particle” ever detected. The neutrino, as the particle is formally known, is 30 times more energetic than any of the few hundreds of previously detected neutrinos. These tiny, high-energy particles from space…
Sudan’s conflict, now into its third year, has wrought unprecedented devastation on the country and threatens even more instability in a critical region connecting the African and Arab worlds. While the country’s strategic value is vastly underestimated in popular and geopolitical discourse—press coverage frequently dismisses it as a “forgotten conflict”—Sudan rightly occupies the minds of…
The dead have been found in their cars, homes and in snowbanks. Some died while shoveling snow. The storm that walloped much of the country is now blamed for at least 48 deaths nationwide, with rescue and recovery efforts continuing Monday. The blizzard roared through the western New York Friday and Saturday, stranding motorists, knocking…
Sending Chinese chip company shares soaring What just happened? China has banned the operators of critical information infrastructure from purchasing chips made by Micron. Beijing claims the move, which has seen China’s chip stocks rally, came after the US memory giant failed its network security review. According to China’s Cyberspace Administration (CAC), a network security review…
Iranian official says next move on prisoner exchange depends on US. It’s hard to understate the impact of resumed diplomatic ties between Iran and Saudi Arabia — and that it was China that made it happen. China has until now had a business- and energy-first approach to the Middle East, preferring to abstain from the diplomatic and…