The U.S. 7th Fleet said a Navy P-8A Poseidon flew through the Taiwan Strait on Wednesday, a day after U.S. and Chinese defense chiefs held their first talks since November 2022 in an effort to reduce regional tensions.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida intends to convey his vision for the future relationship between Japan and the United States during his address to the U.S. Congress next week and also plans to “fundamentally strengthen” Japan’s cybersecurity capabilities.
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The United States and the Independent State of Samoa on Friday signed an addendum to an existing 2012 agreement to continue and expand cooperation to tackle transnational crime at sea, including a provision that essentially deputizes U.S. Coast Guard patrols to enforce Samoan regulations within the island nation’s territorial waters.
China’s top legislator met with a senior North Korean official for talks on cooperation during a visit to Pyongyang this week, North Korean state media said Friday, in one of the most high-level meetings between the allies in years. Beijing’s third highest-ranking official Zhao Leji — a member of the powerful Standing Committee of the […]
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) Like George Orwell’s novel 1984 had predicted for the regime’s “Newspeak,” the U.S. regime’s “defense” means aggression, and “humanitarian aid” means air-dropping and otherwise assisting the supply of tidbits of food, into a veritable ocean of bombing-victims (maimed and killed by U.S. bombs from U.S. aircraft that are being flown […]
The head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, Mohammad Eslami, said on Wednesday that the International Atomic Energy Agency monitoring is in place and UN nuclear chief Rafael Grossi will soon visit Iran.
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? The books are filled with names of kings. Was it the kings who hauled the craggy blocks of stone? –Bertolt Brecht Four weeks ago, Saint Martin’s University sent me and thirteen other faculty notices of “non-renewal of faculty appointment for 2025-2026 Academic Year Termination of Faculty Appointment Without More
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The finance ministers of the United States, Japan and South Korea said Wednesday that they have discussed the Asian countries' "serious concerns" about the recent sharp depreciation of their currencies against the U.S. dollar. As the countries expand the scope of their cooperation beyond security affairs, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet
In the Orikhiv and Kherson sectors, the invaders lost another 40 units of weapons and military equipment, including two air defense systems. — Ukrinform.
Israel’s multilayered air-defense system is credited with protecting the country from serious damage or casualties from an Iranian strike by more than 300 drones and ballistic missiles.