US president claims China, Russia have carried out secret nuclear weapon tests as he seeks to justify return to testing. China has denied it has been secretly testing nuclear weapons, refuting a claim from United States President Donald Trump. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning insisted on Monday that Beijing has not broken the informal…
Donald Trump said his decision came after realising that the US cannot be the only country that does not carry out tests, despite having a massive arsenal. Washington: US President Donald Trump once again affirmed his intention to restart nuclear testing in the United States, citing the nuclear ambitions of Russia and China as…
Ukraine says its forces destroyed three key fuel lines near the Ramensky district. At least nine people have been killed and many injured across Ukraine by what it says were aerial attacks by Russian forces. Authorities in the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine said on Sunday that four people, including two children aged 11 and 14,…
China will effectively suspend implementation of additional export controls on rare earth metals and terminate investigations targeting US companies in the semiconductor supply chain, the White House announced. The White House issued a fact sheetBloomberg Terminal on Saturday outlining some details of the trade pact agreed to earlier this week by President Donald Trump and…
US President Donald Trump’s call to “immediately” resume testing of nuclear weapons, citing Beijing and Moscow’s rapid nuclear build-up, could drive China to “accelerate” its own efforts to develop its strategic forces, according to analysts. On Thursday, Trump posted on social media that he had instructed the Pentagon to start testing US nuclear weapons “on…
Chinese President Xi Jinping and South Korean President Lee Jae-myung held talks on Saturday, discussing ways to advance practical cooperation between the two countries and the progress on the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula. It was the first one-on-one meeting between Xi and Lee since the latter assumed office in June. The meeting took place…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s top adviser praised President Trump for courting China to “help” end the Russia-Ukraine war — as some experts and European officials urged caution in taking Beijing at its word. Andriy Yermak, the head of the presidential office in Ukraine, told The Post he supported Trump’s efforts to bring in Chinese President…
new video loaded: How Ukraine Is Advancing Its Drone Warfare The Ukrainian military has a point-scoring system for drone operators who hit various enemy targets. Kim Barker, a New York Times reporter covering the war, describes how the necessities of drone warfare have transformed the conflict. By Kim Barker, Nikolay Nikolov and June Kim October…
Russian strikes have damaged nuclear substations in Ukraine, leading the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to issue a “critical” warning. Power to three nuclear power plants has been affected after Russian strikes on Thursday. The IAEA said teams at South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant and Khmelnitsky Nuclear Power Plant reported the plants had lost access…
Just as nuclear war, in all its sheer insanity, has returned to Hollywood and public attention, the leaders of the world’s two atomic superpowers seem to be doing their best to make the jitters worse. First, Russian President Vladimir Putin, who’s been breaking nuclear taboos for at least three years, boasted about a (new-ish) torpedo…