UK spy chief says rise of China world’s top security issue

Jeremy Fleming, head of the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), is photographed in London, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019. In a rare public speech Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022 to the Royal United Services Institute think tank, Fleming accused China of using its economic and technological clout to clamp down at home and exert control abroad, saying

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What Can a Secretive Funding Authority Tell Us About the Pentagon’s Use of Force Interpretations?

US special forces training along side Nigerian soldiers wikipedia.org/wiki/American_military_intervention_in_Niger#/media/File:US_and_Nigerien_soldiers_trining.jpg) Lawfare By Katherine Yon Ebright For nearly two decades, the Department of Defense has used 10 U.S.C. § 127e, an obscure counterterrorism funding authority, to create and command proxy forces across Africa and Asia. The full list of these proxy forces is highly classified and yet

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Israel announces sea deal with Lebanon, but doubts remain

Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid makes an opening statement as he chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Oct. 2, 2022. Israel’s prime minister said Tuesday, Oct. 11, that the country has reached an “historic agreement” with neighboring Lebanon over their shared maritime border after months of U.S.-brokered negotiations.(AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File) By The Associated

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Ugandan MP missing in Nairobi after boarding taxi

David Wakikona Ugandan MP By The East African Kenyan police on Tuesday said Ugandan MP David Wakikona went missing after boarding a taxi in the Kenyan capital Nairobi early morning. He was headed to Moi Avenue in the CBD, reports indicate. Mr David Wandendeya Wakikona, the Member of Parliament for Bududa in Uganda, was reported

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Kenya Airways drops more aircraft in cost-cutting plan

By The East African Kenya Airways has reduced its fleet by two more planes as part of cost-cutting measures seeking to steady the loss-making airline. Latest data shows that the national carrier’s fleet size narrowed in the last nine months to 41 aircraft from 43 in December 31, 2021, after two leased Embraer 190 aircraft

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Biden vows air defense systems for Ukraine after missile attack

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks following a tour of IBM in Poughkeepsie, New York, U.S., October 6, 2022. Photographer Tom Brenner/File Photo By Reuters U.S. President Joe Biden pledged to Ukraine President Volodomyr Zelenskiy on Monday that the United States will provide Ukraine with advanced air systems after a devastating missile barrage from Russia.

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Qatar aims to accelerate development of Namibia oil discoveries -energy minister

Qatar Energy CEO and Qatar’s State Minister for Energy Saad al-Kaabi By Reuters The head of QatarEnergy, who is also Qatar’s energy minister, said on Monday the company wants to speed up the development of two oil wells it discovered off the Namibian coast with joint venture partners earlier this year. Saad al-Kaabi said drilling

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Concerns rising in West amid energy, food crises, Turkey has no such problem: President

By Anadolu Agency Concerns are rising in Western countries amid energy and food crises, the Turkish president said on Monday, adding that Turkey “does not have such a problem.” “With the upcoming winter season, concerns regarding energy and food are increasing in the West. We have no such concerns,” Recep Tayyip Erdogan said at an

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African Union opens joint operation centres in war against Al-Shabab

By Xinhua News The African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) says it has opened Joint Operations Centres (JOCs) to enhance coordination and planning with Somali security forces in their war against Al-Shabaab. ATMIS Force Commander Diomede Ndegeya says the centres opened across the AU mission’s areas of responsibility will enable the allied forces to

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Putin says mass strikes launched on Ukraine in response to Crimean bridge attack

By Anadolu Agency Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that targets in Ukraine were hit in response to the explosion on the Kerch Bridge and other “terrorist attacks” carried out by Ukraine’s intelligence. Speaking at a meeting with the members of the Russian Security Council, Putin said the evidence gathered by Russian investigators shows that

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