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Wagner Group mercenary fighters have taken control of about 90 percent of the city of Bakhmut, according to a report from Russian state-owned media. The eastern industrial city in Ukraine has been the epicenter of heavy fighting for months, with Wagner forces taking a prominent role in Russia's offensive. The…

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) is the latest media organization to cease its Twitter activity over concerns about the social media platform’s labeling policy. Twitter has labeled Canada’s public broadcaster as “Government-funded Media,” which CBC/Radio-Canada dismissed as an affront to its credibility. As of Tuesday morning, Twitter defines the category…

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday visited command posts of the Kremlin’s forces fighting in Ukraine in an apparent effort to rally his troops as the war approaches its 14th month and Kyiv readies a possible counteroffensive with Western-supplied weapons. A video released by the Kremlin and broadcast by Russian…

Former Russian commander Igor Girkin's newly formed "Angry Patriots Club" released its manifesto on Monday, slamming the Russian government's "mediocre" military operation in Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 with strong confidence in the Kremlin's ability to swiftly overtake its eastern neighbor.…

Vladimir Putin praised ties between the Russian and Chinese armed forces, while Chinese Defence Minister Li Shangfu told the Kremlin leader that Beijing was willing to “further strengthen strategic communication between the two militaries”. Group of Seven foreign ministers meeting in Japan said they remained committed to “intensifying, fully coordinating…

President Vladimir Putin on Sunday met personally with China's defense chief in Moscow, in a further sign of deepening military ties between the two countries. Li Shangfu, whose three-day visit ends on Tuesday, is the first Chinese defense minister to set foot in Moscow since Russia's invasion of Ukraine began…

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu hailed military cooperation held between their countries amid tensions with the West over the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. During a meeting with Li in Moscow on Sunday, Putin touted his country's defense cooperation with China and said that joint military exercises,…

Russian President Vladimir Putin met Chinese defence minister Li Shangfu in Moscow on Sunday and hailed military co-operation between the two nations, which have declared a “no limits” partnership. Footage of the meeting posted by the Kremlin showed Putin shaking hands with Li and then sitting down at a table.…

Igor Girkin, a military blogger and former Russian commander, predicted Ukraine's future offensive, which he thinks might get the Russian President Valdimir Putin and his supporters "out of a state of being on the planet of pink ponies." Girkin's remarks came as part of an interview posted with English subtitles…

In a world where quantum technologies are on the rise in computing, cryptography, materials, sensors, telecom, biomed, and AI, it’s easy to forget that not so long ago the words “quantum” and “technology” rarely fit comfortably into a sentence together. A range of trailblazers imagined quantum physics turning into quantum…