The Drake Framework The grounding of aircraft across the United States on 13 November 2026 provides an important occasion to examine the vulnerability of international civil aviation through an application of Frank
The Trump Organization and its London-listed partner Dar Global have unveiled plans for a high-end 80-villa resort in the Maldives, a project they say will use blockchain-based tokenisation to open the door
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The National Security Archive (NSA) has released a new tranche of declassified material that it says restores key historical records the U.S. State Department quietly deleted from an official history of the
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Chinese technology giant Alibaba on Saturday forcefully denied allegations that it supports Chinese military operations against U.S. targets, calling a recent report “completely false” as geopolitical frictions between the two powers intensify.
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by Durga Velayudham When Harry S. Truman assumed the presidency on April 12, 1945, it was not simply as Roosevelt’s successor: it was as the man left in the wake of FDR’s
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The Saudis have been watching Israel’s use of F-35s, in Syria, Yemen and Iran. The fact that Iran paid a huge price when it lost virtually all its air defenses, certainly encouraged
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China, which dominates global yttrium production, imposed controls in April that require exporters to obtain government licenses for overseas shipments. The measures, enacted in response to U.S. tariffs, also covered six other
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Donald Trump is not, by instinct, a president who seeks war. But he is a president who believes deeply in projecting strength. And in the US, strength is almost always performed on
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Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is set to arrive in Washington next week for a high-profile visit with President Donald Trump, Bloomberg reports, marking his first trip to the US
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law is for losers. A newly minted War Department, deploying the most lethal killing machine in world history, need not hide behind the sham of promoting democracy. Recall that in 2023 Trump boasted: “When
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Around 1.4 million barrels per day of Russian oil — nearly a third of the country’s seaborne export capacity — are currently being held in tankers as sanctions imposed by the United
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With great prescience, late Henry Kissinger had once said, “You can’t make war in the Middle East without Egypt, and you can’t make peace without Syria.” The adage remains true even today.
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In 2014, the China National Aero-Technology Import & Export Corporation (CATIC), a state-owned entity, submitted a proposal to establish an aircraft maintenance facility in Sri Lanka. The Chinese proposal aimed to provide
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For more than a decade, the CIA secretly waged an unconventional war on Afghanistan’s opium trade, using a highly classified program to airdrop billions of specially bred poppy seeds over fields in
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China has accused the United States government of orchestrating a massive cyberattack that allegedly led to the theft of more than $13 billion worth of bitcoin, in a move that could further
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The U.S. Air Force has launched an ambitious search for a new kind of anti-air missile—one that costs less than $500,000 per unit and can be produced at a rate of more
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