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Gustavo Petro said that the US president’s actions don’t help stopping drug traffickers Colombian President Gustavo Petro has denounced the US strikes on alleged cartel vessels in the Caribbean Sea as the Pentagon announced a new operation to fight drug traffickers. In an interview with NBC News, Petro did not mince words when criticizing US President Donald Trump. “He’s a …

President Donald Trump is considering military options as the armed conflict against Venezuela continues in the open sea. Since September, the Department of Justice has carried out numerous strikes against suspected drug vessels transporting “narco-terrorists” who are trafficking drugs into the US. The strikes have resulted in more than 80 deaths. On Wednesday, senior military officials, including Secretary of Defence …

China seems to be on the “warpath” with indications of plans to restart nuclear weapons testing, warns a defence expert. Fresh satellite images of the highly secretive Lop Nur military base, often dubbed as “China’s Area 51”, reveal significant expansion efforts by Chinese military forces amidst rising tensions with Western countries. The images show boreholes and horizontal tunnels designed for …

China’s first drone-carrying Type 076 amphibious assault ship, the Sichuan, began sea trials on Friday, after its launch in December last year, according to state news agency Xinhua. The ship is seen as a key asset for the PLA Navy’s unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operations because of its electromagnetic catapult launch system and is often described as the world’s first …

Premier Li Qiang will represent the country in South Africa later this month, the Foreign Ministry has announced Chinese President Xi Jinping will not attend the upcoming G20 Summit in South Africa, with Premier Li Qiang slated to go instead, the Foreign Ministry in Beijing has announced. The G20 Summit will be held in Johannesburg on November 22-23. South Africa …

Russia’s economic crisis is intensifying with thousands of companies reportedly facing bankruptcy. Businesses have been hit by a double whammy of sanctions and high interest rates, since the outbreak of the full-scale war in February 2022. The key interest rate rose to a staggering 21% last autumn, the highest it had been since the early 2000s. The Central Bank was …

The October jobs report will be released without a reading of the unemployment rate, President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser said on Thursday. “The household survey wasn’t conducted in October, so we’re going to get half the employment report,” National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said on Fox News. “We’ll get the jobs part, but we won’t get the unemployment …

Russia is currently no threat to Berlin’s security, but even Warsaw might one day pose a danger, AfD party co-chair Tino Chrupalla has said Russia poses no more of a threat to Germany than neighboring Poland, Tino Chrupalla, the co-chairman of the opposition Alternative for Germany (AfD), party has argued. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and several other …

OPINION / EXPERT PERSPECTIVE — The armada the U.S. has assembled in the Caribbean is more formidable than anything the region has seen in decades. What is going on? The administration says it is targeting drug trafficking through the Caribbean. Is that it? Is that really all we are doing? Trump administration officials insist that it is but also acknowledges …

Here’s a look at the key ideas: “Increase acquisition risk to decrease operational risk”: field good-enough capabilities faster, iterate in production, and stop chasing perfect specs that arrive too late. JCIDS → RRAB / MEIA / JAR: cancel the slow, document-heavy requirements process; stand up a Requirements & Resourcing Alignment Board (RRAB) to tie priorities to funds, a Mission Engineering …