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France has made a “big deal” with Ukraine that includes billions of Euros in Ukrainian purchases of French systems and licenses to produce a number of weapons including SCALP/Storm Shadow, a long
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Summary: When people think of economic sanctions, they often imagine a mechanism targeting a specific government, specific assets, or a list of names. But the U.S. sanctions regime operates differently and in a
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“Artificial intelligence has transformed from the realm of science fiction to becoming an integral part of our daily lives and industries.” ~ Todd Giles, Chief Technology Officer, Honeywell Aerospace The Metamorphosis The
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The 9th Ministerial Conference on Women of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), hosted by Pakistan in Islamabad, comes at a pivotal moment for the Muslim world. Across its 57 member states,
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When President Anura Kumara Dissanayake stood before parliament on 20 March and confirmed that his government had turned down two military requests in a single evening — one from Washington to land
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The Sri Lankan Court of Appeal on Monday postponed until July 17 the further hearing of an urgent writ petition filed by former State Intelligence Service (SIS) Director Major General Suresh Sallay,
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A Chinese-born American seismologist whose U.S.-funded research focused on detecting North Korean nuclear tests has been detained in China for nearly two years and is awaiting trial on espionage charges, according to
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Yemen’s Houthi movement launched missiles toward Saudi Arabia after accusing the kingdom of carrying out airstrikes on an airport under its control, ending an informal four-year truce that had largely contained cross-border
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An investigation details how an ambitious Israeli strategy involving Kurdish militias, covert influence operations and former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad evolved into one of the most far-reaching regime-change plans ever contemplated before
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The Schutzstaffel (SS) evolved from a relatively small Nazi paramilitary unit into the central institution behind the Third Reich’s racial policies and mass violence, according to historian Bastian Hein in an interview
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