Source link Samsung has regained the leading position as iPhone sales slide amid the US-China trade spat Samsung has overtaken Apple to reclaim its position as the globe’s top smartphone maker, preliminary data released by the research firm International Data Corporation (IDC) on Sunday showed. The South Korean tech giant lost the top spot to […]
Source link The Russian Defense Ministry confirmed on Friday that an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test has been carried out from the Kapustin Yar range in Astrakhan Region. According to the Russian military, the Strategic Missile Forces “successfully launched ICBM of a mobile ground-based missile system” from the interservice test facility near Volgograd. The test […]
Source link Deployment of American ground-based nuclear-capable weapons near China may prompt Russian action, deputy foreign minister warned Russia considers the revival of intermediate-range nuclear-capable missiles by the US as “irrevocable” and may field some of its own, potentially in tandem with China, the Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia, Sergey Ryabkov, said on Thursday. The […]
Source link Kiev claims its 2023 counteroffensive was derailed because the battle plans were leaked Ukraine’s large-scale counteroffensive last year was most likely foiled due to Russian spies operating in Kiev, President Vladimir Zelensky has claimed, while promising that the next offensive will be more successful. In an interview with the German media conglomerate Axel […]
Source link Stocks have plummeted in Trump Media, forcing the former US president off a daily ranking of the world’s richest people Donald Trump has dropped off the Bloomberg Billionaires Index on the back of dismal stock market performance by Trump Media, the parent company behind the US Republican presidential candidate’s online platform, Truth Social. […]
Source link The Ukrainian government must get rid of the “old-school mentality” and implement true equality in the armed forces, Kiev’s chief military adviser for gender issues, Oksana Grigorieva, has claimed. Kiev is currently in the process of overhauling its military service system, with Ukrainian lawmakers, debating increasingly harsh proposals to amend the country’s mobilization […]
Source link The influx of volunteers is more than enough to achieve Moscow’s current military goals in Ukraine, Andrey Kartapolov has suggested Russia does not need to announce another wave of mobilization to strengthen its army ranks, amid a constant flow of those willing to sign a contract with the military, the head of the […]
Source link Russia and China are rapidly building orbital capabilities, the Space Command head has said The possibility of a conflict in space is no longer just theoretical, General Stephen Whiting, head of the US Space Command, said on Tuesday. Speaking at the 39th Space Symposium at the command’s headquarters in Colorado Springs, Whiting painted […]
Source link The United Arab Emirates has eclipsed Türkiye as the top broker in prisoner swaps, Kirill Budanov has said The United Arab Emirates has emerged as the prime mediator between Kiev and Moscow regarding prisoner exchanges, the head of Ukraine’s military intelligence, Kirill Budanov, has claimed. He also backed a proposal put forward by […]
Source link Secretary of State Antony Blinken has insisted that Kiev will be allowed to join the Western military bloc US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has capped a meeting of NATO diplomats by doubling down on an issue that helped trigger the Russia-Ukraine conflict: allowing Kiev to join the Western military alliance. “Ukraine will […]
Source link Russia’s military has already been testing countermeasures against the fighter jets, the outlet reported There may be little value in Ukraine deploying Western-provided F-16 fighter jets because Russia has already taken measures to counter them, according to comments made by Ukrainian military officials to Politico. The officials, who spoke to the outlet on […]
Source link ‘Hero of Russia’ Admiral Aleksandr Moiseev has taken over as commander-in-chief of the Navy, the Defense Ministry has said The Russian Navy is undergoing major command-personnel changes, with a new commander-in-chief and two key fleet commanders introduced by Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu on Tuesday. Admiral Aleksandr Moiseev, a distinguished naval officer and a […]
Source link IRGC Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi was among the dead in a Damascus airstrike Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has been killed in an Israeli airstrike on Damascus, Syria. The Monday attack destroyed a building adjacent to the Iranian embassy in Damascus, killing at least six […]
Source link The CIA head’s vision for the future of America’s ongoing confrontation with Russia is surprisingly shortsighted William J. Burns has published a long piece in Foreign Affairs under the title ‘Spycraft and Statecraft. Transforming the CIA for an Age of Competition‘. This is an essay likely to be read with great attention, maybe […]
Source link The combined wealth of the richest people in the US has grown to $44.6 trillion, according to the Federal Reserve The wealthiest Americans got even richer last year and now possess $44.6 trillion in combined assets, thanks to the skyrocketing stock market, CNBC reported on Thursday, citing new data from the Federal Reserve. […]