The Pentagon announced on Thursday it had received approval for a potential sale of $650 million worth of air-to-air missiles to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia... .
But some four decades later, they are the most vivid visual example of the breakneck speed of Islamization that is taking place in Uzbekistan, Central Asia's most populous country of some 36 million. SEE ALSO ... ....
The Lebanese judge leading investigations into last year's Beirut port blast was forced to stop work Thursday over a lawsuit filed by an ex-minister he had summoned for interrogation ... .
“While the regime is teetering on the brink of collapse, #Abiy & his lieutenants are unleashing a reign of terror with a vengeance,” he tweeted on Wednesday ... Much of northern Ethiopia is under a communications blackout and access for journalists is restricted, making battlefield claims difficult to verify independently.
China is sharply increasing its nuclear arsenal and could have up to 700 deliverable warheads by 2027 and at least 1,000 by 2030, as the Communist giant aims to surpass US global power by the middle of the 21st century, the Pentagon has warned in a new report ... "The US is using this report to hype up the "China nuclear threat" theory.
Hungary was named in the reports as one of the countries trying to infiltrate the digital devices of a number of targets, triggering protests in Budapest...Opposition lawmakers are demanding a probe into the use of Pegasus ... Hungary's government is at odds with many other European Union member states over issues regarding the rule of law and democracy.
Dating to approximately 700 BC, the remains of the wine press were found at an archaeological site known as Khanis, which is in the Duhok governate in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq... The Khanis site is best known for striking rock reliefs found carved overlooking the RiverGomel Su, near where the wine press has been discovered.
"Attacking and capturing the Pratas Islands - this scenario where war is being used to force (Taiwan into) talks - our assessment is that this will not happen during President Tsai's tenure," Chen told a parliamentary meeting ... before 2024, when Tsai's second term is set to end.
"The real mystery about this child is why she was found where she was," said Lee Berger, the scientist who led the project. "Something amazing was going on in this cave 200,000-300,000 years ago ... - 'Superman crawl' -. Parts of the passage are only 10 centimeters wide ... "What is difficult for us, might not necessarily have been difficult for them.".