Taiwan’s Defense Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng has said that Taipei will abandon its plan to purchase new US anti-submarine warfare helicopters produced by Lockheed Martin Corp, saying they were excessively pricey. “The price is too high, beyond the scope of our country’s ability,” the island’s defense chief said at a parliamentary …
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Moscow has apparently dropped several key demands in the painstaking Ukraine peace talks, the Financial Times newspaper reported Monday, citing “four people briefed on the discussions.” According to the report, Moscow is now prepared to let Ukraine “join the European Union if it remains military non-aligned as part of ongoing …
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This week is a significant one for Barbados as it removes Britain’s monarch as its head of state, having made the decision to become a republic. The Caribbean island nation was initially a creation of the British Empire and was settled as early as the 1600s. The often-unspoken part of …
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Following his disastrous rejection of public opinion in going against the sentiment to scrap the Olympics, and a surge in Covid-19 cases, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is to resign, stepping down as the Liberal Democratic Party’s (LDP) leader at the end of this month. The hosting of the Olympics …
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Switzerland today is celebrating its breakaway status from the European Union, having finally tired of the bullying and rhetoric from Brussels and walked away from a proposed framework arrangement after seven years of negotiations, preferring to go it alone in Swissexit. Never a full member of the EU, that decision …
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The mod, which allowed players to change the skin of any in-game character – including usable sex robots – vanished from gaming modification website Nexus Mods on Thursday after videos showed the mod being used to swap a sex robot’s skin with Keanu Reeves’ ‘Johnny Silverhand’ character. Disappointed gamers expressed …
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Starting on Monday, the office is switching over to encrypted messaging app BiP, which is developed by Turkish firm Turkcell, Bloomberg reported, citing internal messages posted to the WhatsApp groups. The decision comes amid growing consternation over WhatsApp’s plan to begin sharing personal data with its parent company, Facebook. The …
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