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NAIROBI/ABIDJAN, Oct 6 (Reuters) – U.S. special forces soldiers were training their Nigerien counterparts in the West African nation’s volatile southwest, a growing hot-bed of jihadist violence, when the report came in of a raid nearby. The assailants were believed to be led by Dondou Chefou, a lieutenant in a new group operating along the […]
BOB STRONG/REUTERS The U.S. federal government just passed a record $ 20 trillion in publicly held debt. That’s bigger than the entire economy of every country in the European Union, combined. The debt will only grow higher unless President Trump and the U.S. Congress can agree to unprecedented spending cuts combined with tax increases. Don’t count on that happening anytime soon. […]
Mario Tama/Getty Images This fact sheet provides key numbers from Tuesday’s new Census reports, Income and Poverty in the United States: 2016 and The Supplemental Poverty Measure: 2016. Each section has headline statistics from the reports for 2016, as well as comparisons to the previous year, to 2007 (the final year of the economic expansion that preceded the […]
Published time: 21 Aug, 2017 08:37 Edited time: 21 Aug, 2017 08:38 First footage showing a significantly damaged US guided-missile destroyer, the ‘USS John S. McCain’, has emerged online. The warship collided with a merchant vessel near the coast of Singapore. Let’s block ads! (Why?) RT – Daily news
US Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Julio Martinez Martinez President Donald Trump took part in the commissioning of the USS Gerald R. Ford on Saturday, ushering in the first new aircraft carrier design in four decades to the US Navy with in “100,000-ton message to the world,” according to Trump. The Ford […]
REUTERS/ITAR-TASS/PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE The US has spent at least $ 40 billion on a missile defense system intended to knock down or deter incoming North Korean intercontinental ballistic missiles, but actually using the system could lead to an accidental nuclear war with Russia, according to an expert. Jeffrey Lewis, the founding publisher of Arms Control […]
© AFP Mandel NGAN Jerusalem (AFP) – A former head of Britain’s foreign intelligence agency told an Israeli security conference Wednesday that the United States’ declining world role under President Donald Trump is today’s greatest menace. “The biggest threat the world faces is how we all adjust to the progressive withdrawal of responsible American leadership […]
REUTERS/Jason Reed At the end of 2014, after more than 13 years of combat operations, 9,800 US troops were to remain in Afghanistan. That number would be reduced by half at the end of 2015 and reduced again at the end of 2016 to a small military contingent attached to the US embassy. But the […]
Public Domain SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A recent fire has put a national laboratory’s ability to operate safely into question. The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board announced Friday that it will hold a hearing next month to discuss the future of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Santa Fe New Mexican reported. The board […]
CD Rev/YouTube China’s vocal opposition to the deployment of the US’s advanced anti-missile system THAAD has previously been limited to official statements and public demonstrations. Now that rebuke has a new, more melodious form: a rap video. A video featuring Chinese rap group CD Rev, based in the south-central province of Sichuan, appeared earlier this […]
