The 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner was reportedly “taken” and escorted away early Monday morning, Reuters reported, citing spokesman for Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party, Myo Nyunt. Nyunt added that several other senior officials, including formal head of the state – Myanmar’s President Win Myint – were allegedly …
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The Defense Intelligence Agency focuses on foreign threats, but has searched for movements of American citizens at least five times over the past two and a half years, using cell phone data collected and sold by commercial brokers, according to an unclassified memo sent this week to Senator Ron Wyden …
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Hours before he is set to become the 46th president of the United States of America, Biden hosted a ceremony on Tuesday night to commemorate the 400,000 US deaths linked to Covid-19. The somber event featured a row of candles that lined the reflecting pool at the Lincoln Memorial, prompting …
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On Friday, reports and videos emerged from Iran showing the nation’s latest display of military strength. The war games are the first phase of a drill by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) entitled Payambar-e Azam 15 (‘The Great Prophet 15’), which sees the armed force undertake drone and missile …
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An assortment of troops and some of the reclusive country’s most advanced military hardware were flaunted by Pyongyang on Thursday to mark the conclusion of the North Korea’s Workers’ Party congress – its first since 2016. © KCNA via Reuters Although the display did not feature North Korea’s dreaded ICBMs …
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The order promoting “Small Modular Reactors for National Defense and Space Exploration” was published on Tuesday. Though it promptly got lost in the media cacophony over the inauguration, impeachment and last week’s unrest at the US Capitol, its contents could have a long-lasting effect on US nuclear policy. Declaring nuclear …
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Journalists in the Capitol took to Twitter to post the images, which showed the armed troops camping out in hallways by fire extinguishers, educational displays, and even a bust of Abraham Lincoln. “Well this is something I thought I’d never see,” declared the Daily Telegraph’s US editor Ben Riley-Smith, while CBS …
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According to Mike Pompeo, it was a tale as old as time – the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism colluding with the world’s most dangerous terrorist organization against the interests of the United States and its allies. These allegations were made yesterday during an address at the National Press …
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The country’s top military leaders issued a letter on Tuesday blasting the violent disturbance that shook the nation’s capital last week, a rare reproach from the Joint Chiefs, who seldom wade into domestic political matters in the public sphere. “The violent riot in Washington, DC on January 6, 2021 was …
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Seeking guidance on “available precautions for preventing an unstable president from initiating military hostilities or accessing the launch codes and ordering a nuclear strike,” Pelosi consulted with Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, following the riot at the Capitol that left five people dead. “The situation of …
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