Cold War

Ali Shamkhani, Iranian security official (right), Wang Yi, Chinese diplomat (centre), and Musaid al Aiban, Saudi Arabia’s National Security Advisor. Picture credit: Stimson.org As it happened during the Cold War, where smaller dictators played one power against the other to secure their rule and maximise benefits, it will happen presently…

Madrid —  Nearly sixty years after one of the world's worst nuclear accidents, Spain has asked the United States to clean up tens of thousands of cubic meters of radioactive soil and end a controversial chapter of the Cold War. Madrid hopes that improved relations with Washington may make the…

Freezing temperatures are impacting several provinces across Canada, with more chilly weather on the way for the weekend, according to Environment Canada. The agency has posted extreme cold warnings for regions in Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Nunavut, while British Columbia is dealing with numerous snowfall warnings. Canadians…

Russia is in talks with a Chinese drone maker to supply it with self-explosive drones that could be deployed in Ukraine, German magazine Der Spiegel reported Friday. The magazine said it has seen information indicating that Russia’s military is negotiating with Chinese drone manufacturer Xi’an Bingo Intelligent Aviation Technology to…

Ukraine isn’t a cold war. CBDCs aren’t gold. Let’s take a look at reality. Right now, and we mean right now, central banks are looking for a way to wash 40+ years of bad money out of the system, and push a new kind of money on the masses. The…

A former Peoples Democratic Party’s Deputy National Chairman, Olabode George, and the party’s governorship candidate in Lagos State, Dr Abdul-Azeez Adediran, popularly known as Jandor, on Monday, united ahead of the general elections. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that there has been a cold war between George, the PDP…

Former President Jimmy Carter, who has entered hospice care at age 98 at his home in Plains, Georgia, was a dark horse Democratic presidential candidate with little national recognition when he beat Republican incumbent Gerald Ford in 1976. The introspective former peanut farmer pledged a new era of honesty and…

UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- China's permanent representative to the United Nations, Zhang Jun, said on Friday that NATO should contribute positively to world peace and stability, instead of merely being a troublemaker. "We urge NATO to draw lessons from history, abandon the obsolete Cold War mentality and bloc…

On Friday, United States secretary of state Antony Blinken said he was canceling a high-profile diplomatic visit to Beijing following the discovery of a large, high-altitude Chinese balloon that has been drifting over the US this week. The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on Friday that…

Wind chill values near minus 40 will continue this morning. Temperatures will moderate through the day bringing an end to the extreme cold spell, Environment Canada says WEATHER ALERT ENVIRONMENT CANADA ************************* Extreme Cold Warning in effect for: Agawa - Lake Superior Park Sault Ste. Marie - St. Joseph Island…