Lithuania Declares National Emergency Over Suspicious Balloons From Belarus
Hundreds of weather balloons sent to Lithuania this year have disrupted flights and stirred alarm in a sabotage campaign against a NATO state.
Balloons (Aeronautics)
Hot-Air Balloon Crashes in Brazil, Killing at Least 8 People
A hot-air balloon carrying 21 people caught fire and fell from the sky in a region in southern Brazil popular with tourists.
Blinken Meets Xi as China and the U.S. Try to Ease Tensions
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken is meeting with Xi Jinping, China’s leader, on a trip aimed at ensuring that competition “does not veer into conflict.”
China Says U.S. Is ‘Not Qualified’ to Issue Orders on Arms
Beijing is trying to preserve ties with Moscow while asserting it is a neutral observer trying only to coax Russia and Ukraine into peace talks.
China Says U.S. Is ‘Not Qualified’ to Issue Orders on Arms
Beijing is trying to preserve ties with Moscow while asserting it is a neutral observer trying only to coax Russia and Ukraine into peace talks.
China Says U.S. Is ‘Not Qualified’ to Issue Orders on Arms
Beijing is trying to preserve ties with Moscow while asserting it is a neutral observer trying only to coax Russia and Ukraine to peace talks.
Blinken Has Tense Meeting With Chinese Official Amid Spy Balloon Furor
The meeting resumed diplomatic contact between Washington and Beijing that had been frozen since the U.S. shot down a Chinese spy balloon.
U.S. and China Vie in Hazy Zone Where Balloons, U.F.O.s and Missiles Fly
American officials are worried China is far along in developing military technology that operates in the unregulated high-altitude zone of “near space.”
Your Friday Briefing: U.FO.s Were Likely Not Spying, Biden Says
Also, New Zealand’s recovery from Cyclone Gabrielle and a disturbing conversation with a chatbot.
How Questions Over a Spy Balloon and U.F.O.s Fed a Crisis Between the U.S. and China
U.S. officials now suspect that the balloon was sent to spy on bases in Guam and Hawaii and that other downed objects were not surveillance machines. Washington’s evolving view reflects U.S. and Chinese difficulties in discerning each other’s intention…