national security
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Border czar Tom Homan told Newsmax on Saturday that he continues to be perplexed at the pushback the Trump administration is getting from Democrat politicians across the country saying “national security threats should be a nonpartisan issue.” Earlier this week President Donald Trump removed top ICE official Caleb Vitello expressing frustration that the number of deportations of…
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China on Thursday declared that it is opposed to foreign interference in the internal affairs of African countries, even as it expressed readiness to support the building of a standby force and provision of ¥1 billion of grants as military assistance to facilitate training for 6000 personnel as well as 1000 police and other law…
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Israeli airline El Al is suspending its operations on the Tel Aviv-Moscow route for the coming week, citing “developments in Russia’s airspace”. “Over the next week, a renewed assessment of the situation will be carried out to decide whether the route will be resumed,” it said in a statement. Earlier today, four sources told Reuters…
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Holes can be seen on the side of the Azerbaijani Airlines plane reportedly shot down by Russian air defence systems yesterday. Images from the crash site show what appears to be shrapnel damage littered across the tail section of the plane, which went down in the Kazakh city of Aktau. ‘Early indications’ that Russian air…
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The apparent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump at his South Florida golf course on Sunday ignited longstanding concerns among security experts that Trump’s regular golf habit might make him vulnerable to assailants. Nearly every president in recent history has played golf, but the frequency and predictability of Trump’s outings have raised worries for…
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Donald Trump faced a revised federal indictment on Tuesday (Aug 27) accusing him of illegally trying to overturn his 2020 election loss, with prosecutors narrowing their approach after a US Supreme Court ruling that former presidents have broad immunity from criminal prosecution. US Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team obtained the superseding indictment in the Washington…
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White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan will meet with top Chinese diplomat Wang Yi in China next week to discuss issues ranging from Taiwan to US-China military talks and the US fentanyl crisis, a senior US administration official said on Friday (Aug 23). In the Aug 27 to 29 talks in Beijing the two will…
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The Treasury Department on Friday fleshed out a proposed rule that would restrict and monitor U.S. investments in China for artificial intelligence, computer chips and quantum computing. The proposed rule stems from President Joe Biden’s August 2023 executive order regarding the access that “countries of concern” have to American dollars that fund advanced technologies, which the U.S.…
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The Kremlin said on Friday that a U.S. decision to ban sales of Kaspersky’s software was a typical move by Washington to stifle foreign competition with American products. The Biden administration on Thursday said it would ban the sale of antivirus software made by Russia’s Kaspersky Lab in the United States, citing what it said…
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The Biden administration on Thursday announced plans to bar the sale of antivirus software made by Russia’s Kaspersky Lab in the United States, citing the firm’s large U.S. customers, including critical infrastructure providers and state and local governments. Moscow’s influence over the company was found to pose a significant risk, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said…
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An unnamed woman was denied a top-secret security clearance this year due to being a “close” relative of an authoritarian dictator of an unnamed country, according to a publicly available document from the Defense Department’s Office of Hearings and Appeals. The administrative judge in the case ultimately decided to deny the clearance in what appears…
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Sixth person charged for alleged spying offences linked to Russia A sixth person has been charged for alleged spying offences linked to Russia as part of a Metropolitan Police investigation. Tihomir Ivanov Ivanchev has been remanded in custody to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court tomorrow. The 37-year-old from Acton in west London has been charged…
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We reported a little earlier today on a statement from the armed wing of the Palestinian group Islamic Jihad, al Quds Brigades, which said it was prepared to free two Israeli hostages – a woman and a boy – for humanitarian and medical reasons. It has now released a video showing an elderly woman in…
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Increasing concerns of an armed conflict in the disputed South China Sea, a Chinese coast guard ship and an accompanying vessel rammed a Philippine coast guard ship and a military-run supply boat over the weekend off a contested shoal. The Associated Press reported no injuries among the Filipino crew members and the damage to both…
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The Israeli military is still “looking for evidence” on whether Hamas militants had the materials to make chemical weapons when they stormed southern Israel on 7 October. It comes after Israeli President Isaac Herzog said in an exclusive interview with Sky News that fighters were carrying instructions on how to make the weapons. Israeli forces claim they…
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As part of a series of measures released this week to stop Beijing from receiving state-of-the-art U.S. technologies to strengthen its military, the Biden administration will restrict shipments to China of more advanced artificial intelligence (AI) chips designed by Nvidia and other U.S. firms. The rules, which will come into force in 30 days, will…
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