China Successfully Tests Hypersonic Weapon System

China has conducted a test of its new hypersonic weapon. The test is the seventh successful test of the so-called DF-ZF, the Washington Free Beacon reports.

Obama’s lecture to Brits is absurdly hypocritical

President Obama’s call for British voters not to pull out of the European Union is an act of hypocrisy so blatant, it’s breathtaking.

The president wrote a column for the Daily Telegraph calling the outcome of the June 23 referendum “a matter of deep interest to the United States.”

China has surpassed the United States in business travel spending

China has surpassed the United States in business travel spending

Travelers pass through Terminal 3 of Beijing Capital International Airport Terminal. According to figures from the Global Business Travel Assn., China has surpassed the United States in business travel spending.

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China has already surpassed the United States in several categories, including the world's largest exporter and car market.

BP Chief Says Russia Shouldn't Sell Oil Giant Rosneft

Robert “Bob” Dudley, chief executive officer of BP with the Rosneft logo behind him. BP has a long-standing relationship with the Russian oil major and agrees with the government that it should not be sold under current economic conditions. (Photo by Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg)

Former Rosneft business partner, BP, says now is definitely not the time to open more of Rosneft’s shares to the market.

China Goes After Russian Oil Giant Rosneft, Deals Fly

“I have a plan. We should sell to the Chinese and stick it to BP.”  Russian president Vladimir Putin talks with Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin. BP recommended Russia not open more of its shares to the market, but Russia is now courting the Chinese for a position in the company. (Photo by MAXIM SHEMETOV/AFP/Getty Images)

Anyday now we will hear that all that metal China is mining isn’t really designed for job creation and dumping steel into the world, it’s for building oil storage tanks. With a world awash in crude, China’s state owned oil giant CNPC is looking to become a major shareholder in Rosneft to have access to more of it.  For those who don’t know, Rosneft is Russia’s biggest oil producer.  The company had a joint venture with ExxonMobil XOM +0.31% a while back in the Kara Sea, but Washington put a stop to it because of sanctions in retaliation for Russian involvement in Ukrainian politics.

Putin Shuts Down Nuclear Reduction

In March 2009, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presented a toy “reset button” replica to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov symbolizing a cooperative “New START” era of mutual nuclear arms reduction. 

This is the advanced Russian helicopter that just crashed in Syria

Russian military personnel watch Mi-28 helicopters fly during the opening of an army international military forum in Kubinka, outside Moscow, in 2015. (Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)

A Russian Mi-28 helicopter crashed in Syria Tuesday, according to a statement by the Russian Ministry of Defense. Its two crew members were killed, and the aircraft was said to have crashed because of technical reasons.

Declassified: Secretive North Korea lifts veil on arms program

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un looks at a rocket warhead tip after a simulated test of atmospheric re-entry of a ballistic missile, at an unidentified location in this undated file photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang on March 15, 2016. REUTERS/KCNA/Files

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SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ahead of a rare ruling party Congress next month, secretive North Korea is revealing details of its weapons development program for the first time, showcasing its push to develop long-range nuclear missiles despite international sanctions.

North Korea says successfully tested ballistic missile engine

According to the North's official KCNA news agency, the ground engine test was ordered and personally monitored by leader Kim Jong-Un (AFP Photo/)

Seoul (AFP) - North Korea said Saturday it had successfully tested an engine designed for an inter-continental ballistic missile (ICBM) that would "guarantee" an eventual nuclear strike on the US mainland.

Russia postpones missile technology transfer to China

There might be concern in Moscow the technology could end up in North Korean hands.

MOSCOW, April 8 (UPI) -- Russia has postponed the transfer of missile engines to China, out of concern the technology could be passed on to a third country – like North Korea.

One incredible image shows the heroism of US troops during World War II

The crash-landing of F6F-3, Number 30 of Fighting Squadron Two (VF-2), USS Enterprise, into the carrier's port side 20-mm-gun gallery, 10 November 1943.

On November 10, 1943, when Lt. Walter L. Chewning Jr., the catapult officer of the USS Enterprise, saw a 9,000-pound F6F Hellcat crash-land on the flight deck and erupt in a ball of flames as it barreled toward the gun gallery, he did not run away.

N. Korean staff in overseas restaurant in mass defection to South

The Korean peninsula remains the world's last Cold War frontier and the two countries remain technically at war since the 1950-53 conflict ended in a truce and not a formal peace treaty (AFP Photo/Kim Jae-Hwan)

Seoul (AFP) - Thirteen North Koreans working in a state-run restaurant outside the country have defected to South Korea, a government official in Seoul said Friday.

John Kasich Will Be the Republican Nominee for President

The writing’s on the wall in the Republican Party: John Kasich will be the Party’s nominee in 2016, with Marco Rubio as his running mate. Only the media’s delight at continued Trumpian drama is keeping politicos and pundits from coast to coast from stating the obvious.

Here's who'd win in a dogfight between Russia's and the US's top fighter jets

Russia's air force recently grabbed the international spotlight with its bombing campaign in support of Syria's Bashar Assad. But how does it stack up against the world's greatest air force?

Russia helps secure Syria's release of US detainee

Journalist Kevin Dawes was being held in Syria by Bashar al-Assad's regime (AFP Photo/Handout)

Washington (AFP) - Russia secured the release of a US citizen detained in war-torn Syria and has handed him over to American authorities, Moscow's foreign ministry said Friday.

Syria Qaeda downs regime plane, captures pilot

Aleppo (Syria) (AFP) - Al-Qaeda shot down a government warplane over the town of Al-Eis in northern Syria on Tuesday and captured one crew member alive, a rebel source and a monitoring group said.

Wezi 13 wapumbavu zaidi duniani

Katika karibu kila jambo duniani, mwanadamu huhitajika kutumia akili ili kufanikiwa. Bila shaka, iwapo utatarajia wazidi watu wengine hasa katika kuwapora au kuwaibia basi utahitajika kuwa na ujanja zaidi. Lakini maeneo mbalimbali duniani kunao wahalifu ambao walionekana kupungukiwa.

Majuzi kwa mfano, wanaume wawili kutoka Skegness, Lincolnshire, walijipiga picha wakiimba pesa kutoka kwenye mitambo ya kucheza Kamari Bradford, Uingereza. Hawakuenda mbali, kwani walikamatwa muda mfupi baadaye Benjamin Robinson, 30, alifungwa jela miezi 32, naye Daniel Hutchinson akahukumiwa kifungo cha miezi sita jela ambacho kimeahirishwa.

Hawako peke yao. Hapa ni msururu wa wahalifu wengine waliojichongea:

Russia bolsters fighter fleet with new Su-30SM buy

Russia bolsters fighter fleet with new Su-30SM buy
Moscow is looking to bolster its fighter fleet with a fresh buy of new attack aircraft, weeks after Russian airpower decimated anti-government forces in Syria.

Moscow announced a new deal to buy 30 new Su-30SM fighter jets for the country's air forces. Pictured, Russian fighters fly during the Victory Day military parade in Red Square in Moscow on May 9, 2009. File photo by Anatoli Zhdanov/UPI 

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MOSCOW, April 4 (UPI) Russian defense leaders have formalized a new procurement pact with defense aviation firm Irkut Corporation for 30 new Su-30SM fighter jets for the country's air force.

Tension Spikes In South China Sea After Vietnam Seizes Chinese Ship

The territorial scramble for various resource rich areas in the East/South China Sea and specifically the Spratly islands has been a major point of contention involving China and most of its regional neighbors, recently expanding to the U.S. which is determined not to let China have the upper hand, for nearly two years now, with occasional episodes of escalation that threaten the regional peace. One such episode took place on Thursday of last week when the Vietnamese coast guard seized a Chinese vessel for intruding into its territorial waters, according to a local report Saturday.

North Korea activity detected at Yongbyon nuclear complex

A North Korean guard tower overlooks the border near the North Korean city Sinuiju, across the Yalu River from Dandong, China's largest border city with North Korea. Pyongyang was engaged in some form of activity at the Yongbyon, a major nuclear facility, according to analysts. Photo by Stephen Shaver/UPI 

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SEOUL, April 4 (UPI) -- North Korea activity took place at the Yongbyon nuclear complex in February and March, weeks before Pyongyang suggested negotiationswith the United States.

After Palmyra, Syrian troops take another IS-controlled town

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A week after taking back the historic town of Palmyra, Syrian troops and their allies on Sunday captured another town controlled by the Islamic State group in central Syria, state media reported.