Türkiye and Qatar sign new defence deals
On Wednesday, Türkiye and Qatar signed two new memorandums of understanding (MoUs) in the defence sector, aimed at deepening cooperation and enhancin...
Germany has been increasingly focused on defence on its own soil since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 raised the spectre of a wider escalation on the European continent.
In a sign of how urgent the need for preparations is, a top NATO military official on Monday urged businesses to prepare for a wartime scenario and adjust their production and distribution lines accordingly, in order to be less vulnerable to blackmail from countries such as Russia and China.
One company, Bunker Schutzraum, which specialises in building bunkers and shelters, remembers an increase of people interested in buying a bunker when he talked to Reuters-TV back in April 2022.
In 2022 already the company said they experienced a jump of at least 300% in orders. Under Operation Plan Germany, which German media reported on earlier this month, the federal and state governments, army, security authorities and emergency services are coordinating how they could defend the country in the event of a conflict.
As part of the plan, which is confidential, state army representatives are regularly invited to inform businesses about what general points they should consider in their preparations, a German defence ministry spokesperson said last week.
At least 69 people have died and almost 150 injured following a powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Cebu City in the central Visayas region of the Philippines, officials said, making it one of the country’s deadliest disasters this year.
A tsunami threat was issued in Chile after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the Drake Passage on Friday. The epicenter was located 135 miles south of Puerto Williams on the north coast of Navarino Island.
The war in Ukraine has reached a strategic impasse, and it seems that the conflict will not be solved by military means. This creates a path toward one of two alternatives: either a “frozen” phase that can last indefinitely or a quest for a durable political regulation.
A shooting in Nice, southeastern France, left two people dead and five injured on Friday, authorities said.
Snapchat will start charging users who store more than 5GB of photos and videos in its Memories feature, prompting backlash from long-time users.
U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he had called off a planned summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, citing a lack of diplomatic progress and saying that “the timing wasn’t right.”
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday imposed Ukraine-related sanctions on Russia for the first time in his second term, targeting major oil producers Lukoil and Rosneft as his frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the conflict deepens.
Russian drones struck the Ukrainian capital for a second consecutive night, wounding four people, officials said early on Thursday.
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been the target of death threats from an inmate at Paris’s La Santé prison, where he began serving his sentence this week, prompting an official investigation, the Paris prosecutor’s office said on Wednesday.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he expected to reach a series of agreements with Chinese President Xi Jinping when they meet in South Korea next week, ranging from the resumption of Chinese soybean imports to potential limits on nuclear weapons.
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