Russia’s weakened military now surpassed by China’s — and it leaves a trail of paper tigers

Associated Press Russia has always been a military powerhouse, and remains a top cyber, electronic warfare, nuclear, and conventional threat, but it’s no longer the top one. US defense documents now list China as the US’s main threat, and with … Read More

Trump officials sound alarm on Russian meddling, vow to fight back: Democracy ‘in the crosshairs’

Top Trump administration officials warned Thursday that Russia is posing a sustained threat to American elections with its influence operations, saying “democracy itself is in the crosshairs.” Top national security and intelligence officials sounded the alarm during a high-powered White … Read More

Opinion Israel Is the Nation-state of the Israelis

Israel is the nation-state of the Israelis. It belongs to those who pay taxes, vote and get elected to office; those who live here, speak the language, are given their rights and meet their obligations. Arab lawmakers tear the nation-state … Read More

Militias’ Rule In Fourth Generation Warfare In Middle East Region: Dangerous Trend – Analysis

Iran’s IRGC’s Naval special forces, S.N.S.F. Photo Credit: sayyed shahab-o- din vajedi, Wikipedia Commons. Militias sharing power with weak central governments has become a growing phenomenon in the Middle East, causing widespread alarm of state structure collapsing and chaos spreading … Read More

Trump urges Attorney General Sessions to end Russia probe

President Trump called Wednesday for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to end Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation “right now,” alleging bias on the investigative team and complaining about the trial of his former campaign chairman. “This is a terrible situation … Read More

Drought brings big worries for farmers across northern Europe

“I have never seen this type of hot and dry weather, and I’ve been farming over 30 years,” one farmer in Finland said. A grain field in Germany where farmers have been affected by this summer’s drought.picture alliance / picture … Read More

German sources deny Brexit deal offer amid panic in Remain campaign

Remain fears ‘blind Brexit’, under which key decisions are postponed, would be worse than a no-deal Brexit. German sources insisted that despite several reports, no instruction had been issued to back a vague blueprint deal. Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images Reports … Read More

One in every four German residents now has migrant background

Photo: DPA Just under a quarter of residents of the Bundesrepublik have foreign roots, up 4.4 percent year-on-year, government statistics show. The figures released by destatis on Wednesday show that roughly 19.3 million of Germany’s population had a migrant background … Read More

Germany greenlights controversial migrant transfer centers

Seven migrant transfer centers have begun operations in Bavaria. Interior Minister Horst Seehofer hopes to use them to bundle and accelerate asylum procedures, but critics say they will create more problems, not fewer. Speeding up asylum proceedings and bringing them … Read More

‘The map is different now’: Trump blows the 2020 race wide open

The next presidential campaign is going to be fought on unfamiliar battlegrounds. For years, presidential campaigns followed relatively predictable lines of trench warfare, with the outcome decided in a handful of battleground states. But the era of the hardened electoral … Read More

Migrants and Refugees Find Squalor in Bosnia, Croatia closed

A rising number of refugees and migrants heading through Bosnia face dire conditions, their way forward blocked by heavy-handed Croatian police. It was almost lunchtime at a dormitory on the outskirts of Bihac in northwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina and an … Read More

WaPo: New indicators show North Korea potentially working on missiles

WASHINGTON (CNN) – New indicators, including satellite images, show that North Korea could be in the midst of building new missiles, the Washington Post reported Monday, citing officials familiar with the intelligence. According to The Post, the officials said the … Read More

Israeli Demands That Iran Exit Syria Not ‘Realistic,’ Russian Envoy Says

UN peacekeeping troops look over the border line between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s repeated demands that Iranian forces and their allies leave Syria are not “realistic,” Russia’s ambassador to Israel has said. “The … Read More

Steve Bannon on ‘60 Minutes’: Mainstream Media Trying to ‘Destroy’ Donald Trump

Courtesy CBS WASHINGTON, D.C. — Steve Bannon, in his first major interview since stepping down as Donald Trump’s chief strategist, lashed out at the mainstream media, saying it’s trying to destroy Trump, and defended the president’s use of Twitter as a necessary … Read More

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