• Russia´s GDP may exceed 3 percent in 2024, says President Putin

    Moscow, Apr 27 (Prensa Latina) Russia's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) may add over 3% by the end of 2024, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated. The post Russia´s GDP may exceed 3 percent in 2024, says President Putin first appeared on Prensa Latina.

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    Iran's president arrives in Pakistan for 3-day visit amid tight security

    Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi arrived in Islamabad for a three-day visit on Monday, during which he plans to discuss a range of issues with authorities in Pakistan's capital, officials said. The meeting is part of efforts by Islamabad and Tehran to mend ties which had been briefly strained in January, when the two sides carried out tit-for-tat strikes targeting militants accused of attacking their security forces. Raisi was welcomed at the airport by Housing Minister Riaz Hussain Pirzada and...

  • Cyber Security Today, April 22, 2024 -Vulnerability in CrushFTP file transfer software, security updates for Cisco’s controller management application, and more

    Vulnerability found in CrushFTP file transfer software, security updates for Cisco's controller management application, and more. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It's Monday April 22nd, 2024. I'm Howard Solomon. A warning is going out about a vulnerability in another file transfer platform. The hole is in CrushFTP servers, which run on Windows, Linux, Unix and

  • Russia, Russia, Russia!: Watch As Democrats Go Full Russia-Tard During Hearing Over China's "Political Warfare"

    Russia, Russia, Russia!: Watch As Democrats Go Full Russia-Tard During Hearing Over China's "Political Warfare" While China has spent decades conducting deep espionage throughout US institutions - mostly in the form of plucky PhD candidates handling sensitive projects at American universities, and places like Los Alamos National Laboratory, Congressional Democrats simply can't shake their fixation with Russia. Point in case, during a Wednesday House Oversight hearing on defending...

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    Newshour, Ecuadorians vote in security referendum

    Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa is seeking support for tough measures to tackle gang violence, including plans for armed forces to work alongside police. We hear from Quito on the day of the vote, and ask how one of the safest countries in South America ended up with the region's highest recorded murder rate. Also in the programme: the ultra-orthodox battalion of the Israeli Defence Forces that may face US sanctions; and new plans in France to revitalise the national cuisine.(Photo: People wait...

  • Ecuadoreans to vote in referendum on unprecedented security measures

    Ecuadoreans will vote on Sunday in a referendum on a raft of unprecedented

  • Putin Sends Russia's Defense Minister a Warning Shot

    Russia's deputy defense minister was arrested Tuesday evening on bribery charges, but some analysts have speculated the detainment of Timur Ivanov was a warning to his boss, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.Russian President Vladimir Putin "doesn't sign off on that [arrest] unless he's sending a message to Shoigu, one that reads something along the lines of 'that could have been you,'" David Silbey, associate professor of history at Cornell and director of teaching and learning at Cornell in...

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    Homeland Security Secretary Testifies on President's 2025 Budget

    Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas stressed the need for the House to pass the Senate's bipartisan immigration bill as he faced criticism from Republicans for his handling of the immigration crisis at the Southern Border during a public hearing. The secretary appeared before the House Homeland Security Committee to testify on President Biden's 2025 budget request. Other topics discussed included flood insurance, cybersecurity concerns, preventing online child exploitation, workforce...

  • Putin Faces New Rebellion in Russia's Back Yard

    Fresh protests against a Russian-inspired security law are roiling Georgia—a small but strategically located nation in the South Caucasus—as the Black Sea nation struggles to chart a strategic path between its massive northern neighbor and its own Euro-Atlantic ambitions.Thousands have taken to the streets of the capital Tbilisi in recent days to march against a proposed foreign agents registration law. This would require organizations receiving more than 20 percent of their funding from abroad...

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    Homeland Security Secretary Testifies on President's 2025 Budget

    Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas stressed the need for the House to pass the Senate's immigration bill as he faced criticism from Republicans for his perceived failures at addressing the immigration crisis at the Southern Border. The Secretary appeared before the House Homeland Security Committee to testify on President Biden's 2025 budget request. Several topics were discussed during the hearing, including flood insurance, cybersecurity concerns, preventing online child...

  • Where Did Vladimir Putin’s Dream Of a ‘Russian World’ Come From?

    Russian President Vladimir Putin justified the 2022 invasion of Ukraine by asserting the existence of a singular “Russian world” that needs protection and reunification. He set aside the secular socialist ideological rationales that the Soviet Union used to justify its expansion favoring the Tsarist Russia, rooted in religion and culture. But the history of political More

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    Why Elise Stefanik’s vote against security aid for Ukraine matters

    While there are some Republicans in Congress who’ve been accused of siding with Russia in its war with Ukraine, House GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik has not been among them. In fact, after Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of his neighbor, the New York congresswoman largely blamed her own country’s president, before also denouncing Russia’s authoritarian leader. “I join the American people in praying for the safety of innocent Ukrainians as they endure an unwarranted and unjustified...