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WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday embraced the support of allies who have provided substantial new aid and a path to joining NATO, even as he emphatically pushed for the help to arrive faster and for restrictions to be lifted on the use of U.S. weapons to attack…

By Deborah Haynes, security and defence editorInitial noises by the new British government on defence have stirred fears among experts that repairing the UK's war-fighting prowess is not a burning priority despite mounting threats.Keir Starmer used a trip to Washington for a major NATO summit this week to…

Nvidia Could Generate $12B In China With New AI Chips That Comply With US Restrictions: Report (CORRECTED)Editor’s note: The headline and third paragraph of this story has been updated to more accurately depict the nature of Nvidia’s sales of AI chips in China to comply with US export controls. Nvidia Corp (NASDAQ:NVDA) is on track to sell $12…

If the Biden administration had its way, far more electronic chips would be made in factories in, say, Texas or Arizona.They would then be shipped to partner countries, like Costa Rica or Vietnam or Kenya, for final assembly and sent out into the world to run everything from refrigerators to supercomputers.Those places may not be the first that…

Citing news reports of a Chinese military base being built near Pangong Tso, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge attacked the Narendra Modi government demanding that the country be taken into confidence on the border situation with China. Mr. Kharge shared a news report which said that the Chinese military had built bunkers to store weapons…

A ship called San Fernando — a container vessel built in 2015 and operated by shipping line Maersk and now sailing under the flag of the Marshall Islands — will be the first container ship to make a port of call at the Vizhinjam International Seaport. The ship, which embarked on its maiden voyage from Xiamen, China, to the coast of Kerala, was…

Chinese President Xi Jinping promised on Friday to defend the "territorial integrity" of Tajikistan as he announced a boost to diplomatic relations with the neighbouring country on a rare visit.Xi arrived in the Tajik capital Dushanbe, Thursday night from Kazakhstan following a gathering of leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation…

Thu, 04 Jul 2024 11:57 PM World News Live Updates: China rejects key Western calls for human-rights reforms at UN meeting The council's president, Omar Zniber, said China had accepted nearly 70% of the more than 400 reform recommendations it received as part of the UN review. Read the full story here Thu, 04 Jul 2024 11:41 PM World…

WASHINGTON – If former President Donald Trump wins a second term in November, his personal and family business interests could pose even bigger ethical problems and national security risks than they did during his first term − when he exploited the presidency to financially benefit himself in unprecedented ways, ethics experts warn.Trump earned…

The government of cash-strapped Vanuatu will soon settle into a suite of new buildings funded by China, a move likely to reignite concerns about Beijing's reach in the South Pacific nation.At an official handover ceremony conducted in front of a towering China Aid billboard, Vanuatu Prime Minister Charlot Salwai announced the opening of the…