Controversy Surrounds US Plan to Supply Deadly Cluster Munitions to Ukraine

Controversy Surrounds US Plan to Supply Deadly Cluster Munitions to Ukraine

Ukrainian military serviceman Igor Ovcharruck holds a defused cluster bomb from an MSLR missile, among a display of pieces of rockets used by Russian army, that a Ukrainian munitions expert said did not explode on impact, in the region of Kharkiv, Ukraine, October 21, 2022. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne [ワシントン 6日 ロイター] – The United States plans … Read more

Kremlin Spokesman Dismisses Financial Times Report on Chinese President’s Warning to Putin over Nuclear Weapons in Ukraine

Kremlin Spokesman Dismisses Financial Times Report on Chinese President’s Warning to Putin over Nuclear Weapons in Ukraine

Kremlin spokesman Peskov dismissed a report by the Financial Times that Chinese President Xi Jinping had warned Russian President Vladimir Putin over the use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine. REUTERS/Sputnik/Mikhail Tereshchenko/Pool via REUTERS [モスクワ 5日 ロイター] – Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on the 5th that Chinese President Xi Jinping had warned Russian President Vladimir … Read more

Rising Suicide Rates in Singapore: A Growing Mental Health Crisis

Rising Suicide Rates in Singapore: A Growing Mental Health Crisis

The Samaritans of Singapore documented that 476 suicides were recorded in 2022 in the city, an increase of 26% compared to last year, with a noticeable increase among young people and the elderly, according to Bloomberg News. She added that suicide was the leading cause of death among people between the ages of 10 and … Read more

India’s Game-Changing Agreement with General Electric Aerospace to Boost its Fighter Jet Manufacturing

India’s Game-Changing Agreement with General Electric Aerospace to Boost its Fighter Jet Manufacturing

India and the United States have reached a significant agreement that could revolutionize India’s defense capabilities. The deal, which still needs to be ratified by the US Congress, will see General Electric Aerospace sharing its advanced engine technology with India for the manufacture of light fighter jets. India has long been trying to develop its … Read more

Russian President Putin Considers Withdrawing from Black Sea Initiative

Russian President Putin Considers Withdrawing from Black Sea Initiative

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that he was considering withdrawing from the Black Sea Initiative. May 2022 (2023 REUTERS/Dado Ruvic) [モスクワ 13日 ロイター] – Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on the 13th that he is considering withdrawing from the Black Sea Grain Export Agreement (Black Sea Initiative). In a teleconference, he said that … Read more

Chinese President Xi Jinping Expresses Support for South Africa’s BRICS Presidency in Phone Call with President Ramaphosa

Chinese President Xi Jinping Expresses Support for South Africa’s BRICS Presidency in Phone Call with President Ramaphosa

Chinese President Xi Jinping held a phone call with South African President Ramaphosa to express support for South Africa’s rotating presidency of the BRICS. Photographed in March (2023 REUTERS/Sputnik/Vladimir Astapkovich/Kremlin via REUTERS) [北京 9日 ロイター] – Chinese President Xi Jinping held a phone call with South African President Ramaphosa to express support for South Africa … Read more

US Secretary of State Blinken meets with Saudi Crown Prince to discuss bilateral relations

US Secretary of State Blinken meets with Saudi Crown Prince to discuss bilateral relations

During a visit to Saudi Arabia, US Secretary of State Brinken met with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and discussed bilateral relations. The state-run Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported on the 7th. FILE PHOTO: Washington, D.C. May 16, 2023. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz CAIRO (Reuters) – US Secretary of State Brinken met with Crown Prince Mohammed bin … Read more

World Bank Forecasts Higher Real GDP Growth in 2023, but Cuts Forecast for 2024

World Bank Forecasts Higher Real GDP Growth in 2023, but Cuts Forecast for 2024

In its latest World Economic Outlook, the World Bank forecast growth of 2.1% in 2023, up from 1.7% in its previous forecast released in January. FILE PHOTO/Johannes P. Christo/File Photo/File Photo/File Photo WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The World Bank forecast real GDP growth of 2.1% in 2023 in its latest World Economic Outlook released on Wednesday, … Read more

Founder of Russian Private Military Company Wagner Claims Recapture of Belkivka by Ukrainian Forces

Founder of Russian Private Military Company Wagner Claims Recapture of Belkivka by Ukrainian Forces

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Russian private military company Wagner, said on Thursday that Ukrainian forces had recaptured a part of Belkivka, north of Bakhmut in Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine. April 2023. REUTERS/Yulia Morozova [5日 ロイター] – Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Russian private military company Wagner, said on the 5th that the … Read more

Russian Defense Ministry Claims to Have Thwarted Large-Scale Attack in Ukraine, Killing Hundreds of Pro-Ukrainian Forces

Russian Defense Ministry Claims to Have Thwarted Large-Scale Attack in Ukraine, Killing Hundreds of Pro-Ukrainian Forces

MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Russian defense ministry said in the early hours of Friday that it had thwarted a large-scale attack in the Ukrainian Donetsk region, killing hundreds of pro-Ukrainian forces. Russia’s Defense Ministry announced on June 5 that it had foiled a large-scale Ukrainian offensive in the Donetsk region in southern Ukraine. FILE PHOTO: … Read more