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'Unusual' comment by official suggests China may be repositioning itself on war, says military analyst
The "first seeds" of peace talks later this year may have been sown as Emmanuel Macron visits China, according to military an…

April 6 (Reuters) – Two U.S. senators proposing to give the Biden administration new powers to ban Chinese-owned short video app TikTok on Thursday rejected criticism arguing it is the best way to address security concerns about a broad range of …

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko pledged to deepen their ties amid Russia's war in Ukraine in a meeting at the Kremlin. Photo by Mikhael Klimentyev/Sputnik/Kremlin Pool/EPA-EFE
April 6 (UPI) — R…

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. congressional leaders have invited the president of South Korea to address a joint meeting during a visit to Washington later this month.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and other leaders announ…

Tesla assures its millions of electric car owners that their privacy “is and will always be enormously important to us.” The cameras it builds into vehicles to assist driving, it notes on its website, are “designed from the ground up to protect your pr…

Tesla assures its millions of electric car owners that their privacy “is and will always be enormously important to us.” The cameras it builds into vehicles to assist driving, it notes on its website, are “designed from the ground up to protect your pr…

A protester in a firefighter uniform takes part in a demonstration in Paris on the 11th day of action after the French government pushed a pensions reform through parliament without a vote.…
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April 6, 2023
The Saudi and Iranian foreign ministers met in Beijing on Thursday for the first official gathering of top diplomats in more than seven years to establish diplomatic and economic agreements, highlighting China’s growing influence in the r…

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said Thursday that global growth will expand less than 3% this year, ahead of the IMF/World Bank meetings next week.
“With rising geopolitical tensions and still-high inflation, a robus…

April 6, 2023
DUBAI — China International Capital Corporation (CICC) plans to expand its reach in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia, as China’s ties with the Middle East grow politically and economically in the Gulf region.…
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Back in January when THW released a new top-25 Detroit Red Wings prospects ranking, the top two players were, perhaps unsurprisingly, the team’s top picks in the 2021 draft (Simon Edvinsson) and the 2022 draft (Marco Kasper).…
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French President Emmanuel Macron, Chinese President Xi Jinping and European Commission President Ursula Von de Leyen meet in Beijing, April 6, 2023.POOL/Reuters
Before the war in Ukraine, China was making major headway in improving its relationship wit…

WASHINGTON — True Anomaly, a startup based in Denver, is building two small satellites that it plans to launch into orbit later this year. One of the spacecraft will attempt to chase down an “uncooperative” object and take pictures up close.…
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Washington — The leader of the House Foreign Affairs Committee is leading a bipartisan delegation of House members to Taiwan, a visit that comes on the heels of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's meeting with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-Wen in Calif…

Analysis: Have first seeds of peace talks been sown as Chinese ambassador makes unusual declaration?
The "first seeds" of peace talks later this year may have been sown as Emmanuel Macron visits China, according to military analyst Sean Bel…

True Anomaly may be young, but it's ambitious and moving fast.
The Colorado-based startup, which was founded in 2022, emerged from stealth mode today (April 6) to announce that it has raised $30 million to date, including $17 million in a recent …

As tensions between the United States and China continue to escalate, a new startup has emerged from stealth with millions raised and a plan to send intelligence-gathering pursuit satellites to orbit this year.…
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In recent years, the narrative that the U.S. and China are engaged in what some are now calling Cold War II has gained considerable traction. Advanced by figures such as former U.S.…
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Binance's Australian derivatives license was canceled at the crypto exchange's own request, the Australian Securities & Investments Commission said Thursday, after the regulator had begun a "targeted review of Binance" in Fe…

Japan's coast guard said it was searching Thursday for an army helicopter carrying 10 crew members that went missing off a southern Japanese island. The coast guard said it received information that a Ground Self-Defense Force UH-60JA Black Hawk …

The tech industry has known for the past decade that artificial intelligence carries significant risks. Three years before his 2018 death, Stephen Hawking went so far as to warn that, “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end…