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The tracking system will be used by Taiwan's F-16 jets. US Air Force
The US has agreed to sell Taiwan a $500 million tracking system for its F-16 fighter jets.
Taiwan plans to use the system to help identify long-range targets.…
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Google-parent Alphabet (GOOGL) leads this week's list of stocks to watch as Google stock is in a buy zone. EV-related plays and IBD 50 list members Allison Transmission (ALSN) and Li Auto (LI) also are on the list.…
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A year ago at Berlin’s IFA tech trade show (think European CES), Verge reporter Jon Porter witnessed a Google Nest Hub control an Apple HomeKit smart plug. This “lightbulb moment for the smart home” was the first public demonstration of Matter.…
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Open this photo in gallery: China's Xinhua News Agency, two Chinese Su-30 fighter jets take off from an unspecified location to fly a patrol over the South China Sea.Jin Danhua/The Associated Press
Taiwan’s defense ministry said Saturday that Chi…

More than a thousand flights are expected to be cancelled or rescheduled during the upcoming G20 Summit scheduled to take place in Delhi from September 7 to 10.
The Central government has made it mandatory for airlines to reduce their flight frequency …

Open this photo in gallery: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, right, and former Chancellor Angela Merkel laugh together during a handover ceremony in Berlin, on Dec. 8, 2021.Markus Schreiber/The Associated Press
Germany, poor Germany, is once again being …

> Space
The world celebrated India on its historic moon landing Wednesday, as it became the first space program to reach the lunar south pole region with a robotic spacecraft.
But in the words of a cynical internet meme: Pics, or it didn't ha…

Former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra with his daughter Paetongtarn Shinawatra after landing at Bangkok's Don Mueang airport this week. Photograph: Manan Vatsyayana/AFP via Getty
In Thailand’s May general election, Bangkok office worker A…

Gen Z is more actively participating in the stock market than any other generation. Why? They have a fear of missing out, or “FOMO.”
In a stock market that’s seen sharp ups and downs over the past year, most Gen Zers are diving in headfirst.…
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IWAKI, Japan — In a laboratory on the third floor of a nondescript building here, a group of volunteers pour water from plastic jerry cans through filters into large round-bottomed vessels.…
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The much-hyped idea—forget a launch—about a gold-backed BRICS currency has died without a whimper for now. As the economic bloc, comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, concluded its 15th summit in Johannesburg on Thursday, introducin…

When looking at drivers of economic growth, ASEAN is a region sometimes overlooked for its potential and overshadowed by economic powerhouses such as China and the United States. Yet in recent years, ASEAN has emerged as a dynamic and rapidly evolving …

China said Saturday the former chief of its Winter Olympic delegation was under investigation for suspected corruption, as the government pursues a crackdown on graft in the sport sector.
Ni Huizhong, who most recently headed the country’s winter sport…

Singapore is ready for a non-Chinese prime minister at any time, presidential candidate Tharman Shanmugaratnam has said ahead of the September 1 election, calling it a marker of the society’s progress in the country dominated by Chinese-origin populati…

Eleven days ago, some of the most senior soldiers in the Nato alliance travelled to a secret location on the Polish-Ukrainian border to meet Ukraine’s chief military commander, Gen Valerii Zaluzhnyi, for what was privately billed as “a council of war”….

Ranch land and wind turbines near Rio Vista, in the Montezuma Hills area of Solano County, California. A company called Flannery Associates has been purchasing large amounts of land in the area.…
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In top national news: In what appeared to be a breakthrough Thursday in efforts to reduce tensions between the two countries over the military standoff in eastern Ladakh since May 2020, Prime Minister Narendra Modi conveyed India’s concerns to Chinese …

The bloc has sought to become a ‘club’ of its own — although O’Neill has often argued that “they have accomplished very little”. Following the announcement in South Africa this week about BRICS’ expansion – a watershed moment – claims have emerged that…

The NBA has developed the G League Ignite for players who want to prepare for the NBA without attending college. Overtime Elite is a similar program, prepping players in its Atlanta-based facility with the option of bouncing to a college program or the…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first stop back in India from Greece on Saturday was Bengaluru where he interacted with and congratulated scientists of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for the successful landing of the Chandrayaan-3 moon mi…