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Month: June 2023

Russia says it downed 3 drones outside Moscow, suspects it was attack by Ukraine

The Associated Press Russian authorities say two drones have crashed outside Moscow as they were approaching the warehouses of a local military unit. Russian media reported Wednesday that the wreckage of a third drone was found about 20 kilometers (12 miles) away. Russia’s Defense Ministry says the drones were brought down using radio-electronic means. No

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Biden calling China’s leader a ‘dictator’ opens new rift just after Blinken’s tensions-easing trip

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER, JOSH BOAK and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s remarks calling Chinese leader Xi Jinping a “dictator” and China a country with “real economic difficulties” drew fast condemnation from China on Wednesday, cracking open a new rift just after the two countries agreed to tentative steps to stabilize

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Cooperation or competition? China’s security industry sees the US, not AI, as the bigger threat

By DAKE KANG Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China’s security and surveillance industry is now focused on shoring up its vulnerabilities to the United States and other outside actors, worried about risks posed by hackers, advances in artificial intelligence and pressure from rival governments. The renewed emphasis on self-reliance, combating fraud and hardening systems against

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Search for Titanic submersible intensifies across vast area where banging sounds were detected

By Nouran Salahieh, Priscilla Alvarez, Ray Sanchez and Steve Almasy, CNN (CNN) — As experts examine underwater recordings of noises in the North Atlantic Ocean where a submersible with five people aboard went missing Sunday, the search for the vessel grew Wednesday. With oxygen supplies on board likely dwindling, time has become the biggest concern

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Ukrainian pilots plead for F-16s as they battle Russian air superiority

CNN, UKRAINE AIR FORCE, FACEBOOK, COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE UKRAINIAN ARMED FORCES, SPECIAL OPERATIONS FORCES OF UKRAINE, RUSSIAN DEFENSE MINISTRY, U.S. DEFENSE DEPARTMENT, UNITED STATES AIR FORCE By Vasco Cotovio, Frederik Pleitgen, William Bonnett and Daria Markina Tarasova, CNN Southern Ukraine (CNN) — Two Ukrainian jets roar just above the trees, flying in formation

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The Biden-Modi relationship is built around mutual admiration of scrappy pasts and pragmatic needs

BY AAMER MADHANI and KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have developed a relationship based on mutual respect of their scrappy backgrounds and a pragmatism about shared challenges. Biden hosts Modi for a state visit this week, looking to tighten his relationship with the leader

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Paris summit aims to shake up the financial system. It will test leaders’ resolve on climate

By FATIMA HUSSEIN and PAUL WISEMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Heads of state, finance leaders and activists are converging in Paris to seek ways to overhaul the International Monetary Fund and World Bank and usher the global development banks into a post-pandemic world with a rapidly changing climate. The banks have been criticized for

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In the West Bank, UNESCO site Battir could face a water shortage from a planned Israeli settlement

By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press BATTIR, West Bank (AP) — Generations of Palestinians have worked the terraced hillsides of this West Bank farming village southwest of Jerusalem, growing olives, fruits, beans and exquisite eggplants renowned across the region in a valley linked to the biblical King David. But residents fear their ancient way of

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