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US President Joe Biden’s administration said Tuesday that it has finalized a $7.9 billion award to Intel, cementing part of his legacy in bringing semiconductor production to US shores, shortly before Donald Trump takes office. The United States is scrambling to ease its dependence on China and other countries in Asia for these devices essential […]
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A major fire erupted Tuesday at a Japan space agency site as it tested a solid-fuel Epsilon S rocket, television footage showed. There were no reports of any injuries in the incident in the remote Kagoshima region of southern Japan. Towering balls of fire and white fumes rose from the Tanegashima Space Center, according to […]
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US President Joe Biden will attend Donald Trump’s inauguration in January, the White House said Monday, calling it a “commitment to our democratic values” despite Trump skipping Biden’s own swearing-in. Then-president Trump refused to attend Biden’s inauguration in 2021, after falsely claiming his election win was fraudulent and whipping up a mob of supporters who […]
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Russia said Monday that its air defenses had shot down eight ballistic missiles fired by Ukraine, amid heightened tensions over Kyiv’s use of Western-supplied long-range arms against Russia. “Air defense forces shot down eight ballistic missiles,” Moscow’s defense ministry said in a daily briefing. It did not say what kind of ballistic missile Ukraine used […]
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Israel’s military said Hezbollah fired around 250 projectiles into its territory from Lebanon on Sunday, with the militants saying their attacks targeted the Tel Aviv area and Israel’s south. The Iran-backed group said in a statement that it had “launched, for the first time, an aerial attack using a swarm of attack drones on the […]
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US President Joe Biden praised the COP29 deal Saturday as a “significant step” to fighting global warming, and pledged continued action by America despite his incoming successor Donald Trump’s climate skepticism. “While there is still substantial work ahead of us to achieve our climate goals, today’s outcome puts us one significant step closer,” Biden said […]
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NATO chief Mark Rutte held talks with US President-elect Donald Trump in Florida on the “global security issues facing the alliance”, a spokeswoman said Saturday. The meeting took place on Friday in Palm Beach, NATO’s Farah Dakhlallah said in a statement. In his first term Trump aggressively pushed Europe to step up defence spending and […]
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The United States expects that thousands of North Korean troops massing in Russia will “soon” enter combat against Ukraine, Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin said Saturday. “Based upon what they’ve been trained on, the way they’ve been integrated into the Russian formations, I fully expect to see them engaged in combat soon,” Austin told reporters during […]
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US President-elect Donald Trump on Friday named billionaire Scott Bessent as his Treasury secretary, choosing the hedge fund manager to help execute an agenda promising tax cuts and tariffs. Bessent, who is chief executive officer of Key Square Group, has called for an extension of tax cuts from Trump’s first term, wants to reassert American […]
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Ukraine is asking its Western partners for updated air defence systems after Russia fired an ultra-fast ballistic missile at the city of Dnipro this week, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday. “Ukraine’s defence minister is already holding meetings with our partners on new air defence systems — exactly the kind of systems that can protect lives […]
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