Cold War

Paramount Pictures has set Ron Howard to direct The Fixer, a Tyler Hisel script that tells the true story of a disgraced FBI agent, who at the height of the Cold War, is tapped by the CIA to lead a ragtag team of CIA operatives and Chicago mobsters on an…

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will arrive in London on Wednesday for meetings with his UK counterparts.Huawei will be at the top of the agenda when Pompeo sits down with UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab today and Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday.There is fury in Washington over Johnson's…

DUBAI (Reuters) - A group of Iranian lawmakers on Tuesday asked parliament to debate a motion for Iran to quit a treaty governing global nuclear arms control, a move apparently aimed at pressuring European powers to salvage Tehran's own 2015 nuclear deal. A …

Movies IRONBARK is a Spy Thriller with Friendship at the Heart Give me an espionage thriller set anywhere between 1939 and 1970, preferably in the UK, and I’m in. It’s a time-tested genre and, as long as they employ certain tropes—secret meetings, razor’s edge tension, maybe a fedora or 90—they…

On the second night of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, two high-profile dramas premiered to packed houses at the Eccles Theater — but neither of them had a seat reserved for their lead actors. “Ironbark,” a historical drama about a mild-mannered business…

Davos (Switzerland) (AFP) China and the United States may have laid down their arms for now in a trade truce, but their technological rivalry is very much still raging, raising the spectre of a high tech cold war.The coming battle played out this week in the corridors of the World…

(Bloomberg) -- Bulgaria charged three Russians for the attempted murder of an arms dealer in an investigation linked to the poisoning attack against former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in the U.K. Authorities in the Balkan state have been working with the U.K.…

Editors USA TODAY Published 9:30 AM EST Jan 23, 2020 House Dems resume case against Trump in impeachment trial Democratic impeachment managers will resume detailing their case against President Donald Trump on Thursday and are expected to focus on the Constitution and the legal grounds for his removal. The seven prosecutors, who are called managers,…

Key Point: The vulnerability issue is harder to address because putting 5,000 sailors and six dozen high-performance aircraft on a $10 billion warship creates what military experts refer to as a very "lucrative" target.Large-deck, nuclear-powered aircraft carriers are the signature expression of American military power.  No other combat system available to U.S. warfighters comes close to…

The United States has held two rounds of talks with Russia, aimed at reducing misunderstandings around critical security issues since the collapse of a Cold War nuclear pact last year -- which triggered fears of a new arms race. Washington has hinted that Beijing should also join the discussions.AFP|Last Updated:…