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English (Original) Spanish – Español French – Français German – Deutsch Arabic – العربية Chinese – 中文 Japanese – 日本語 Russian – Русский Portuguese – Português Italian – Italiano Korean – 한국어 Dutch – Nederlands Turkish – Türkçe Polish – Polski Hindi – हिन्दी 🤖 Hi! I’m here to help you understand this article. Ask me anything about the content! Send By André Pienaar For eighty years, Japan has been the only major power in the world without a standalone civilian intelligence service. That era ended on 31 July, when Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi chaired the first meeting of a…

English (Original) Spanish – Español French – Français German – Deutsch Arabic – العربية Chinese – 中文 Japanese – 日本語 Russian – Русский Portuguese – Português Italian – Italiano Korean – 한국어 Dutch – Nederlands Turkish – Türkçe Polish – Polski Hindi – हिन्दी 🤖 Hi! I’m here to help you understand this article. Ask me anything about the content! Send France is stepping up protection of critical infrastructure and defence sites against Russian drone and cyber-attacks as the threat to Europe intensifies. President Emmanuel Macron has ordered a new protection plan for critical infrastructure and sensitive defence sites. Macron…

The stench of burnt flesh and bones was nauseating even from a distance. Mutilated and burnt body parts lay strewn amid the ruins of bombed houses. Smoke billowed from what was once a thriving market selling a wide range of commodities and catering to the needs of three villages in the area. When I arrived at the bombed site at Yoe Ngu village in Ponnagyun township of Myanmar’s Rakhine State at 7.30 p.m. on February 24, the atmosphere was unnerving. Aside from a small group of six men holding blazing torches and using sticks and shovels to rummage through the…

In his address to the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif described Afghanistan as a haven for terrorist groups carrying out attacks against Pakistan. He specifically named Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, or the TTP, and the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), and called on the Afghan Taliban to take decisive action to prevent Afghan soil from being used against Pakistan and other countries.  Coming from a Pakistani official, this demand raises many questions. The first is: since when has Pakistan decided that supporting armed groups in a neighboring country is dangerous? When the Taliban were fighting…

Surrounding Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit to Washington, D.C. – capped by a summit at the White House with U.S. President Donald Trump – was a spate of commentary from both sides of the political aisle. Clearly, not everyone was convinced of the need for Xi to visit in the first place. Even Trump loyalists such as Louisiana Senator John Kennedy spoke out against having Xi at the White House.  One of the Senate’s most colorfully spoken members, Kennedy made his point of view known in no uncertain terms, speaking on the Will Cain show. Kennedy opined: “All four…

For the second time in the  span of a year a brutal child abuse case has sparked heated public discussion in Uzbekistan. Reportedly, a five-year-old girl was repeatedly raped in a public kindergarten by a facilities manager who worked at the school in the Uchkurgan district of Namangan. According to the mother of the survivor, the alleged perpetrator is their neighbor and she became suspicious after she saw him smiling at her five-year-old daughter. She gently asked the girl questions only to find out that the facilities manager would buy sweets for the girl, tell her he loved her, and…

The Pentagon’s latest report about its implementation of the National Defense Strategy notes progress on accelerating weapons production, cutting red tape, and persuading European governments to boost defense spending—but is light on problems such as Russia’s increasing aggression in Europe and the high cost of U.S. wars in the Middle East.The report to Congress, dated Sept. 22 but pushed out on Defense Department social media on Tuesday, argues that the Trump administration has made “significant progress implementing the 2026 National Defense Strategy’s guidance” in several areas. It cites a historically large budget request that includes funding for undersea forces, long-range…

Global shipbuilding demand is likely to remain resilient for the long-term, with increasing geopolitical conflict and uncertainty one of the primary drivers. The 2026 war between Iran, the United States and Israel has caused a spike in demand for alternative suppliers and routes, leading Fitch Rating to revise sectoral outlook to “neutral” from “deteriorating.” According to the non-profit Container Trades Statistics, global container volumes reached 16.2 million 20-foot-equivalent units (mTEUs) in April — the first full month of data since the Strait of Hormuz closures triggered by February’s Persian Gulf crisis — marking a 4 percent year-over-year increase and a…

It is official government policy under President Mohamed Muizzu that the Maldives has the strongest claim to the Chagos Islands. His is the first Maldivian administration to assert sovereignty over the archipelago, located in the central Indian Ocean and home to the joint U.K.-U.S. military base on Diego Garcia. In doing so, Muizzu has inserted the Maldives into the long-running dispute between the United Kingdom and Mauritius over sovereignty over Chagos. Chagos was administered as a dependency of British Mauritius from 1814 until 1965. That year, three years before Mauritius gained independence, Britain separated the archipelago from Mauritius to create…

WASHINGTON — Boeing has emerged the champion to build the Navy’s sixth-generation strike fighter — beating out competitor Northrop Grumman to build the aircraft that will replace the service’s aging F/A-18 Super Hornet and EA-18G Growler fighter jets.  But while the more than $20 billion win gives Boeing a stranglehold on America’s sixth-generation fighter fleets, the challenge now is making sure the company can execute, according to analysts who spoke to Breaking Defense ahead of the contract decision. To be sure, today’s win represents a major turnaround for Boeing’s defense arm. After years of struggling with major aircraft programs, including…