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The White House is to send $95m to Lebanon, citing regional security, while eyeing human rights concerns in Egypt, Reuters reports. The United States plans to divert to Lebanon $95m in military aid that was originally allocated to Egypt, according to an unconfirmed news agency report. The State Department notification to Congress of the planned […]
US adds Tencent and CATL to list of companies working with China’s military Financial Times Source link
China’s state oil major CNOOC and shipping line Cosco were added to a military blacklist compiled by the United States for ties between Chinese businesses and the People’s Liberation Army. The black list, Bloomberg noted in a report on the news, classifies companies with ties to the Chinese army as military companies, and while such […]
The Pentagon on Monday labeled Tencent, the Chinese social media and gaming giant, as a Chinese military business operating in the United States, the latest action in an escalating series of retaliatory moves between the world’s two superpowers. Tencent’s shares in the United States plunged by nearly 10 percent after the decision by the Defense […]
Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images Shares of Chinese tech heavyweight Tencent Holdings tumbled 5.4% in Hong Kong after the company was added to a list of “Chinese military companies” by the U.S. Department of Defense. The move follows a near 8% fall in Tencent‘s U.S. depository receipts on Wall Street. Other Chinese companies […]
Arnold Schwarzenegger kicked off the new year by offering fans an opportunity to get into top shape by working out with him in person. On January 1, the 77-year-old actor and bodybuilding icon unveiled a new challenge for users of his fitness app, The Pump. “Today, I’m announcing the ‘Iron Ticket,’” Schwarzenegger wrote in his […]
Honduras has threatened to expel United States troops, retaliating against incoming President Donald Trump’s plans to carry out mass deportations of refugees and asylum seekers entering the US from Central America. Trump’s plan could affect hundreds of thousands of people from Honduras, a country which hosts a significant US military base. Here’s what’s at the […]
It is August 2022, and four Americans – all men in their 70s – disembark at a small airport outside Quy Nhon, a city of about half a million located on the south-central coast of Vietnam and the capital of the Binh Dinh province. With its lush landscapes and stunning tropical beaches, it is hard […]
Honduras’s president threatened to push the U.S. military out of a base it built decades ago in the Central American country should President-elect Donald J. Trump carry out mass deportations of undocumented immigrants from the United States. The response by President Xiomara Castro of Honduras, in an address broadcast on television and radio on Wednesday, […]
The deadly New Year’s Day terrorist attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas have brought renewed attention to the scourge of extremism in the US military, but efforts to tackle it wilted in the later years of the Biden administration, and are unlikely to be revived once Donald Trump begins his second term this month. […]