Cold War

Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Samsuri Mokhtar speaks during a press conference after unveiling riders for Terengganu’s Polygon Cycling Team in Kuala Terengganu January 13, 2023. ― Bernama pic Follow us on Instagram, subscribe to our Telegram channel and browser alerts for the latest news you need to know. Monday, 16…

On 7 December 2022, a 12-member delegation from Burkina Faso led by Prime Minister Apollinaire Joachim Kyélem de Tambèla embarked on a highly secretive trip to Moscow. Only after questions were raised about the absence of so many of its top officials from Ouagadougou did the government put out a…

Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine was the biggest story of 2022. Aside from reviving Cold War fears of nuclear war and playing havoc with energy markets, it’s been a black swan event for a space industry still adjusting to a black swan called COVID. Russia’s flouting of international order set…

A person hails a taxi as heavy snow falls in downtown Vancouver, late Monday, Dec. 19, 2022. Weather warnings or special weather statements are posted in every province and territory except Manitoba as winter storms or extreme cold usher in the official start of winter. By Ashley JoannouThe Canadian Press…

Home Comics Thriller (Image credit: AWA) The Cold War between the United States and Russia gripped the middle of the 20th century in a high-stakes game of espionage and conquest that threatened to literally destroy the world. Now, the Cold War is back for one retired agent in a new…

This story first appeared at ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. In America’s rush to build the nuclear arsenal that won the Cold War, safety was sacrificed for speed. Uranium mills that…

LODZ, Poland (AP) — A security organization born in the Cold War to maintain peace in Europe ended a high-level meeting Friday without a final resolution, underlining the existential crisis it is facing amid Russia’s war against Ukraine. The war launched by one member of the Organization for Security and…

Here's a look at 2022’s most notable new guitars, amps, effects, and accessories, reviewed by our editors and writers: VALCO KGB Fuzz While it looks like the work of a Cold War-era mad scientist, this do-it-all dirt dauber is so versatile that it’s easy to overlook its big footprint. It conjures…

AP Photo/Alex Brandon Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands with President Joe Biden before a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit on Nov. 14, 2022, in Bali, Indonesia. At the dawn of the Cold War, the Truman administration acted boldly, in what historians later would term the “100…

Bali, Indonesia CNN  —  President Joe Biden held a three-hour talk Monday with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, their first in-person encounter since Biden took office and an opportunity that both sides appeared to hope would lead to an improvement in rapidly deteriorating relations. Emerging afterward, Biden told reporters he…