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Can the U.S. Military Stop China from Invading Taiwan? Time for a Wargame.
Stephen Silver
US-China War,
The U.S. Air Force held a war game in the fall of 2020, looking at what would happen in the event of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, ten years in the future.
The U.S. Air Force held a war game in the fall of 2020,...
Topics: Military, China, Taiwan
Over 70 People Reportedly Detained in Saturday Rallies Against Sanitary Passes in France
PARIS (Sputnik) - Seventy-one people protesting against COVID-19 restrictions were detained in France on Saturday, media reported, citing the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Topics: France, Paris, Protests
Opposition Parties Will Not Succeed in Dividing Hindus, Says Vishva Hindu Parishad President
The Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) or World Hindu Council, a key Hindu organisation linked to India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), was founded in 1964 and has been one of the main groups that have led the Ram Temple movement in India since...
Topics: India
Man United and Real Madrid open talks over possible transfer of elite defender
According to RMC Sport journalist Mohamed Bouhafsi, Real Madrid and Manchester United have begun negotiating over the possible summer transfer of defender Raphael Varane. Taking to his official...
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Topics: Spain, Madrid
South Africa Turmoil
On this edition of Encounter, Ambassador Michelle Gavin, senior fellow for Africa Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and former Ambassador to Botswana, and Frans Cronje, CEO of the Johannesburg-based Institute of Race Relations, analyze...
Topics: South Africa, Botswana
Member of Greenpeace Russia Apologises for Comments Linking Yakut People to Wildfires
YAKUTSK, Russia (Sputnik) - The head of Greenpeace Russia's wildfire unit, Grigory Kuksin, has apologised for his recent comments in which he blamed forest fires in Siberia on certain social practices of the Yakut people.
Topics: Greenpeace, Russia, Siberia
Over 5,500 Reports Made to Police After Violent Protests in Sydney
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Over 5,500 reports were made to Australia's police department of Crime Stoppers after violent protests broke out in Sydney on Saturday, the New South Wales (NSW) Police said.
Topics: Police, Protests, Australia, Russia, Moscow
This Was the Ancient World's Nuclear Weapon
Warfare History Network
History, Europe
The exact details of Greek Fire’s deployment, like the actual formula itself, are destined to remain a mystery.
Key Point: The year was AD 678, 46 years after the death of the prophet Mohammed. Now the...
Iranian Warship That Petrified US and UK on High Seas Spotted at Russian Naval Parade – Video
US and UK media spent months fretting about the cargo and possible destination of a two-ship Iranian warship flotilla that deployed in the Atlantic Ocean this spring. Earlier this month, the commander of Iran’s Navy boasted that America had been...
Topics: United Kingdom, World Videos, Iran
Anti-vaxx conspiracy theorist tells rally that healthcare workers fighting COVID could face...
Kate Shemirani speaks to thousands of protesters during the demonstration. Demonstrators protest in Trafalgar Square, London as part of the Worldwide Rally for Freedom. Protesters are demonstrating against the vaccine passport, Covid-19 vaccination...
Topics: Protests, United Kingdom, London
Eduardo Bolsonaro meets Beatrix Von Storch in Brazil: Marxists Freak, Call President’s Son...
Conservatives are under attack from the US and Brazil to Hungary, Poland and India. That is why it is essential for patriots worldwide to create their own network of “civil society” NGOs and parties.
On Friday, July 23, Eduardo...
Topics: Brazil, Hungary, Poland, India
Israel Launches First Direct Commercial Flight to Morocco
TEL AVIV (Sputnik) - The first nonstop commercial flight from Israel to Morocco's Marrakesh departed on 25 july, almost eight months after the two countries agreed to normalise relations.
Topics: Israel, Morocco, Tel,aviv
Ethiopia's Amhara State Rallies Youth to Fight Tigrayans as War Expands
Ethiopia's Amhara state on Sunday called on "all young people" to take up arms against Tigrayan fighters who are battling the federal government military and forces from all of Ethiopia's other nine regions.
The call for mass mobilization against...
Topics: Ethiopia, Military
No pathway to reach the Paris Agreement’s 1.5˚C goal without the G20: UN chief
“The world urgently needs a clear and unambiguous commitment to the 1.5 degree goal of the Paris Agreement from all G20 nations”, António Guterres said on Sunday after the Group failed to agree on the wording of key climate change commitments...
Topics: France, Paris
Why Did Trump Initially Support The Saudi-UAE Effort To Overthrow Qatar’s Government?
Why Did Trump Initially Support The Saudi-UAE Effort To Overthrow Qatar’s Government? One of the more curious things in 2017 in the first year of the Trump presidency was how when Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) placed a...
Topics: Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates
Biden Frees Al Qaeda Commander Who Blew Up Buddhas
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. When the Taliban and its Al Qaeda allies blew up two giant Buddha statues in...
Topics: Joe Biden, Al-qaeda, Terrorism, Taliban, Afghanistan
SA vaccine partnership, Kiswahili digital rights, US African immigrants
Hi Quartz Africa readers!The coronavirus pandemic has been harsh for Africa’s $50 billion tourism industry, with the fall-off in foreign visitors likely to knock out more than 6% of countries’ GDP on average in 2021, according to the UN.Last...
Pakistan: Supreme Court declines petition to protect Christian girls from forced conversion and...
Pakistan is a leading nation in promoting Muslim victimology worldwide and advancing the “Islamophobia” agenda. The manipulative promotion of Islamic blasphemy doctrine is unceasing, while Muslim men continue to kidnap, forcibly convert and rape...
Topics: Pakistan, Petitions
Australia avoids UNESCO downgrade of Great Barrier Reef
Australia has garnered enough international support to defer an attempt by the United Nations’ cultural organization to downgrade the Great Barrier Reef’s World Heritage status because of damage caused by climate change
Topics: Australia
This Super Tank Had the Makings of a Killer (Not Made in the USA)
Charlie Gao
Tanks, Europe
The story of the Yugoslavian tank industry begins in the late 1940s, following Tito’s spat with Stalin.
Here's What You Need to Know: The workers agreed, and the factory was able to produce a few tanks (around half a...