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Syria to mark one year since Assad toppled

DAMASCUS, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Syrians will mark the first anniversary of the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad and his iron-fisted rule on Monday, as the fractured nation struggles to find stability and recover after years of war. Official celebrations are planned for the central

Trump: 'I'm not sure Zelensky is fine with' peace proposal

President Trump on Sunday said he does not think Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is ready to sign off on a U.S.-proposed peace plan between Ukraine and Russia. The president, in an exchange with reporters ahead of his hosting the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington,

China’s quantum leap could crack US nuclear deterrence

Quantum computing may be the asymmetric weapon China deploys to finally roll back decades of US military dominance. This month, Nikkei Asia reported that China’s rapid push into quantum computing is emerging as a potentially decisive military equalizer, with experts warning

Trump and the return of hemispheric nationalism

The Trump administration’s newly released National Security Strategy represents something far more consequential than another episodic shift in American foreign policy. What we’re witnessing is the formal codification of a worldview that rejects the animating premises of US

Confidence test: Indonesia to lop the zeroes off its rupiah

JAKARTA – Indonesia is preparing to take a technically neutral yet symbolically significant step in its economic evolution: the redenomination of the rupiah. The plan, long discussed within the government and Bank Indonesia, aims to simplify daily transactions and accounting by

Thailand the new eye of SE Asia’s scam center storm

BANGKOK – Thailand seized more than US$300 million in a new crackdown against international criminals allegedly laundering money through two banks in Bangkok from online scam centers in neighboring Cambodia and Myanmar but the top suspects are still at large. “The individuals

Europe is alone and under siege

The map below is a depiction of The Deluge, a historical event in which the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth — which had been a major European power — was defeated and destroyed under the combined assaults of Russia and Sweden in the 1600s. After having its power broken, Poland

Washington’s quixotic quest for GDP supremacy over China

While the Trump administration’s recently published National Defense Strategy (NDS) represents a significant realignment of US foreign policy objectives, the NDS continues a longstanding bipartisan effort on at least one key front. As a passage on page 20 of the document reads:

Read: Full text of the National Defense Authorization Act

Congressional leaders on Sunday released the text of the national defense and security package, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The budget for the Department of Defense is $8 billion more than the $892.6 billion in President Trump’s budget request for the