The U.S. launched retaliatory airstrikes against Iranian-linked sites in eastern Syria Thursday after a suicide drone attack killed a U.S. contractor and wounded five troops and another contractor at a U.S. base there. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said the airstrikes … Read More
ACCRA, Ghana: Amid the spread of extremist violence in West Africa’s Sahel region, the US military has launched its annual military training exercise, entitled Flintlock, aimed at helping armies contain the region’s jihadi threats. The US stated it aims to … Read More
NEW DELHI/LONDON (Reuters) – U.S.-led international sanctions on Russia have begun to erode the dollar’s decades-old dominance of international oil trade as most deals with India – Russia’s top outlet for seaborne crude – have been settled in other currencies. … Read More
SHANGHAI, March 6 (Reuters) – The United States is working to expand its restrictions on the export of chipmaking equipment to China by securing cooperation with the Netherlands and Japan, forcing Chinese chipmakers to turn to domestic suppliers such as those listed … Read More
NEW DELHI (AP) — The top diplomats of Australia, India, Japan and the United States offered sharp but veiled criticism of China on Friday, even as they maintained their Indo-Pacific-focused bloc is not aimed at countering Beijing. In comments at … Read More
From artificial intelligence to robotics, China is beating Western democracies in research output on 37 out of 44 technological areas deemed critical for economic growth and military power over the coming decades, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) said in … Read More
WASHINGTON, Feb 12 (Reuters) – U.S. military fighter jets on Sunday shot down an octagonal object over Lake Huron, the Pentagon said, the latest incident since a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon put North American security forces on high alert. It … Read More
Beijing lodges formal complaint with US embassy over the incident China has accused the US of “overreaction” and the “indiscriminate use of military force” in shooting down a Chinese balloon that traversed US airspace, saying that the move has damaged … Read More
China acknowledged Friday that a high-altitude balloon spotted this week over Montana does in fact belong to Beijing, but it referred to the airship as a civilian device “used for scientific research such as meteorology.” A senior defense official told … Read More
GENEVA, Jan 27 (Reuters) – China and the United States exchanged sharp criticism at a World Trade Organization meeting on Friday, with Beijing calling Washington a “unilateral bully” and the U.S. accusing its rival of illegal retaliatory measures. China’s ambassador … Read More