Increases in China’s defense budget have been “appropriate and reasonable” and are aimed at meeting “complex security challenges,” a spokesperson for the country’s rubber-stamp parliament said Saturday.
Alex Murdaugh sentenced to life in prison
Alex Murdaugh has been sentenced to life in prison without parole over the murders of his wife and son.
UN Chief Condemns “Vicious” Tactics Of Wealthy Nations Against Poor
UN leader Antonio Guterres on Saturday slammed the world’s rich countries and energy giants for throttling poor nations with “predatory” interest rates and crippling fuel prices.
Top scientist behind Russia’s Sputnik V Covid vaccine strangled
Andrey Botikov, one of the scientists who helped to create the Russian Covid-19 vaccine Sputnik V, was strangled to death with a belt at his apartment here and police have arrested a suspect in connection with the murder, according to a Russian media r…
Russian Conscripts Who Complained to Putin, Decrying Their Lack Of Training, Wiped Out in Battle
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Cambodia gov’t rejects concern over opposition leader’s sentence
Opposition leader Kem Sokha, 69, was sentenced to 27 years on charges of treason and is currently under house arrest.
Southeastern Louisiana University ‘Likely’ Suffered Cyber Attack
Southeastern Louisiana University suffered a week-long outage of its website, email, or system for submitting assignments after a “potential incident” last week caused the university to shut down its network.
Russian Covid vaccine creator found dead in his Moscow apartment, 1 held: Report
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BBC tax raids shine light on Indian media freedom under Modi, some journalists say
By Krishn Kaushik, Devjyot Ghoshal, Saurabh Sharma and Aditya Kalra
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – At around 11 a.m. on Feb 14, some 20 Indian tax officials and police burst into the BBC’s offices in New Delhi, shouting at staff to step away from their compute…
Anger grows in Greece after train disaster
Anger is growing in Greece after a new recording revealed what might have caused the country’s deadly rail disaster.