Thousands of “yellow vest” demonstrators marched in Paris and other French cities on Saturday in protests that brought sporadic clashes with police and suggested that President Emmanuel Macron has yet to defuse public discontent. On the 11th consecutive weekend of action against the government, 69,000 people took to the streets, ... Read More »
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro oversaw a display of the army’s Russian hardware on Sunday, with anti-aircraft flak and tank rounds pounding a hillside to show military force and loyalty in the face of an international ultimatum for new elections. Maduro, 56, is confronting an unprecedented challenge to his authority after ... Read More »
Russian military spells out exact specifications of the land-based cruise missile to demonstrate it conforms with the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty Russia has unveiled a new missile as it attempts to show the US it is not violating a key nuclear arms pact. The Russian military spelled out the exact ... Read More »
Country’s royal palace issues decree authorising an election to be held on 24 March Thailand is set to hold its first general election since the military seized power in a coup in 2014. Having not held elections for five years, the country’s royal palace has now issued a decree authorising ... Read More »
Site is seen in satelite images and is one of up 20 bases North Korea has not disclosed Researchers claim to have discovered a secret missile base in North Korea that could distort negotiations during an upcoming summit between that country and the United States next month. The Sino-ri Missile ... Read More »
Warning comes after year of wildfires, heavy flooding and increasing greenhouse gas emissions The world’s ability to fight climate change and other major risks has dropped to “crisis levels” thanks to rising political and economic tensions, the World Economic Forum has warned. As world leaders and business figures prepare to ... Read More »
Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi highlighted the country’s progress in peaceful nuclear technologies and said the country has started taking initial measures to develop a 20%-enriched fuel used for nuclear reactors. “In the nuclear science and industry, we have made so much progress ... Read More »
The White House’s national security team last fall asked the Pentagon to provide it with options for striking Iran after a group of militants aligned with Tehran fired mortars into an area in Baghdad that is home to the U.S. Embassy, a source familiar with the matter said on Sunday. ... Read More »
President Donald Trump threatened Turkey with economic devastation if it attacks a U.S.-allied Kurdish militia in Syria, weakening the Turkish lira and prompting sharp criticism from Ankara on Monday. Relations between the two NATO allies have been strained over U.S. backing for the Kurdish YPG, which Turkey views as an ... Read More »
A super-Earth known as Barnard’s star b might be far more habitable than previously thought A planet near our own could support primitive life, scientists have announced. The nearby world – orbiting around Barnard’s Star, the second closest star system to our own – is known as a super-Earth and ... Read More »
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