Kashmir: How United Nations Is “Directly Responsible”...
India’s External Affairs Minister is perhaps the highest Indian official in decades to have said something very bluntly. Participating in the Raisina Dialogue, S. Jaishankar pointed out how global rules on issues pertaining to sovereignty and territorial integrity were never applied...
https://afriprime.net/posts/230987
Lockheed “Scrambles” To Save F-35 Deal With Canada!...
Lockheed Martin, the manufacturer of the F-35 Lighting II stealth fighter, which is currently caught in the eye of a political storm, is making concerted attempts to save the Canadian deal from collapsing. The American aerospace giant has reportedly made a new offer to Ottawa. Citing sources,...
https://afriprime.net/posts/230961
Macron Asks Europe To Buy Rafale Over F-35, SAMP/T NG Over...
The transatlantic unity between NATO allies has been somewhat ruptured following President Donald Trump’s unpredictable policies. With European countries growing skeptical, France is advocating for Rafale fighters and SAMP/T air defense system to replace F-35s and Patriots. President...
https://afriprime.net/posts/230938
China-Taiwan War: Taipei Faces “Existential Threat”...
Taiwan faces a growing existential threat from its own people spying for China, experts warn, as the government seeks to toughen measures to stop Beijing’s infiltration efforts and deter Taiwanese turncoats. While Beijing and Taipei have been spying on each other for years, experts told...
https://afriprime.net/posts/230923
“Turning Point” In History! Amid Trump Tariff Threats,...
In a major geopolitical realignment that can have far-reaching consequences, Japan, South Korea, and China met in a historical trilateral meeting in Tokyo and agreed that peace on the Korean peninsula was a shared responsibility. The meeting comes amid heightened tensions on the Korean...
https://afriprime.net/posts/230907
From Su-30 Fighters To T-90 Tanks, India Is Boosting Its Firepower...
The defense partnership between India and Russia has survived the diplomatic headwinds blowing in the wake of the Ukraine War. As security threats on its borders persist, India is now working relentlessly on upgrading many Russian-origin military equipment license-produced in the country. All...
https://afriprime.net/posts/230900
Will Boeing’s F-47 ‘KILL’ European GCAP &...
Unveiling the Next-Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) air superiority fighter at the White House on March 21, an aircraft shrouded in secrecy for years, President Trump said, “It’s something the likes of which nobody has ever seen before.” Present in the Oval Office were...
https://afriprime.net/posts/230890
Nuke Race Heats-Up! Over Half-A-Dozen Nations Could Go Nuclear As...
U.S. President Donald Trump’s “America First” policy and the resultant perception that the US security guarantee to its allies and partners in the rest of the world is no longer infallible, particularly its “nuclear umbrella,” seem to have reignited debates in many...
https://afriprime.net/posts/230876
India Unveils ‘Powerful’ D4 Anti-Drone System; IAF...
“In today’s battlespace, the first strike may not come from a fighter jet screaming across the skies—it could be a drone the size of a shoebox. And India is ready.” The changing nature of warfare is no longer a future prediction; it’s a present reality. From...
https://afriprime.net/posts/230865
It’s 6th-Gen Warfare! IAF Fighter Pilot Explains How F-47...
In a future battlespace where missiles move faster than the eye can see, radars are blinded by electronic trickery, and dogfights are orchestrated by machines before human pilots even know they’re in danger, the roar of the engine may be the only relic of past wars. As a Mirage 2000 pilot,...
https://afriprime.net/posts/230857
“Controversial” Deportations Pick Pace In The U.S.;...
The deportations under the Trump administration are picking up pace. However, the haphazard and often controversial manner of deportations is increasingly bringing the administration into direct conflict with the US judiciary. In the latest face-off, US President Donald Trump called a chief...
https://afriprime.net/posts/230842
F-47 NGAD To Avoid “Big Ugly” F-35 Mistake; Trump...
During a press conference at the White House on March 21, President Donald J. Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the Air Force would proceed with the production of the F-47, the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter jet platform. Intended to eventually replace the Air...
https://afriprime.net/posts/230835
Arch Rivals To Pals! How Vietnam Is Sidelining The...
China and Vietnam, which have territorial disputes in the South China Sea, share a bittersweet relationship fraught with confrontation and cooperation. The two countries may be close trading partners, but thirty-seven years ago, they fought a bloody battle that still haunts Hanoi. In...
https://afriprime.net/posts/230813
China’s “Ukraine”: Another Mineral-Rich Region Is...
Nestled in Pakistan’s southwest and heavily invested by China, Balochistan is a land of contradictions—immensely rich in resources yet deeply impoverished. The province holds vast reserves of copper, gold, coal, and natural gas, accounting for a significant portion of...
https://afriprime.net/posts/230807
Europe Plans $872 Billion ‘Rearmament Package’ Amid...
With growing concerns over US security commitments, European policymakers are pushing for a substantial military buildup and a ‘rearmament plan’ to strengthen the continent’s defense architecture. For decades, NATO has remained the foundation of European security, heavily...
https://afriprime.net/posts/230799
Russians Hope For 1945-Style Victory; Trump-Putin Talks 1st Step...
For Russian civil servant Larisa, talks between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump have put Moscow one step closer to victory, even if they are far from ending three years of fighting in Ukraine. Since taking office, Trump has quickly reversed his predecessor Joe Biden’s policy of isolating...
https://afriprime.net/posts/230773
Jeremiah 29:11
"For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a future and a hope."
🔹 Simple Life Explanation:
Your life is like a book God is writing. Even if one chapter is tough, the next one is full of hope and blessings.
Romans 15:13
"May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit."
🔹 Simple Life Explanation:
Hope is like a light in a dark tunnel. When you trust God, He fills you with joy, no matter what’s happening around you.
At least seven people have been killed, including a child, and 40 others injured in Saturday’s airstrikes, the Lebanese Health Ministry said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz ordered a “second wave” of attacks on southern and eastern Lebanon on Saturday evening local time in response to Hezbollah rocket fire toward Israel and “in continuation of the first wave of attacks this morning,” according to a statement released by the prime minister’s office.
“The Lebanese government is responsible for everything that happens on its territory,”
The attack mark the most significant eruption of violence between Israel and Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah since a ceasefire brought uneasy calm to the border.
When Mariia Pankova last exchanged messages with her close friend Pavlo in December, she had no idea that he was among the Ukrainian troops fighting in Russia's Kursk region.
She found out when a fellow soldier told her several days later that her friend, Pavlo Humeniuk, 24, a combat engineer in Ukraine's 47th Magura brigade, had gone missing near the village of Novoivanivka in Kursk on December 6.
Almost four months have passed and there has been no further information about Pavlo's fate, Pankova said with his relatives. She keeps searching on Telegram and Facebook hoping to find out whether he is dead or alive.
Pankova, 25, believes the cost of Ukraine's risky incursion into Russia may have been too high.
"I'm just not sure it was worth it," she said, large teardrops running down her face when talking about her missing friend,
"We're not invaders. We just need our territories back, we do not need the Russian one."
Since China's DeepSeek shocked Silicon Valley by releasing AI models comparable to its U.S. competitors but developed at a fraction of the cost, Chinese investors have been on the lookout for the next domestic startup with the potential to upend the global tech order.
Some have pointed to Manus. The company went viral on X a few weeks ago by releasing what it claimed to be the world's first general AI agent, capable of making decisions and executing tasks autonomously, with much less prompting required compared to AI chatbots like ChatGPT and DeepSeek.
Beijing is now showing signs that it will support Manus' rollout within China, echoing its response to DeepSeek's success. State broadcaster CCTV on Thursday.
On Feb. 4, the White House enacted new tariffs, paused them on Feb. 7, and then enacted them again on March 4, which included eliminating the de minimis trade exemption.
De minimis became law in the U.S. through the U.S. Tariff Act of 1930, with the goal of letting people and small businesses skip import fees for small shipments. The original amount was $200 and was raised to $800 in 2016.
Why is the ending of de minimis important?
Fast fashion has made buying cheap clothing from overseas too easy, offering clothes for as little as a few dollars each and therefore encouraging a larger haul per customer. To be able to sell so cheaply, the clothing is made to deteriorate, or at least not made to last, causing Americans to toss 82 pounds of clothing every year, on average.
While these extra few dollars of tariffs might make companies like Shein and Temu absorb the costs with small price increases or find an alternate route to keep consumers, sustainability adv
Late last month, Simon Hale landed in hot water with his compliance department at Wellington Altus Private Wealth. Due to the sharp rally in Tesla, his holdings of the EV giant had become too valuable relative to the portfolio managed.
“That’s no problem any more,” Hale glumly told fellow investors during an online discussion last week. The stock, beaten down over the past fortnight, had just plunged a further 15% in one session, solving his quandary without the portfolio manager ever having to lift a finger.
CEO Elon Musk’s attempt to replicate Argentine president Javier Milei by cutting government spending with a chainsaw has sparked a wave of outcry across the United States.
Yarquimedes Rodriguez Hilario, 32, and Adison Lopez-Ramirez, 34, sold and attempted to sell 90 rifles and one machine gun to undercover federal agents posing as cartel members, said prosecutors out of the Middle District of Florida.
President Claudia Sheinbaum early this month stressed that to stop the flow of drugs into the United States, the U.S. must address gun smuggling. A lawsuit brought by Mexico against U.S. gun manufacturers over the avalanche of U.S. guns into the country.
“Guns trafficked from the United States are the lifeblood of the cartels,” Jonathan Lowy, an attorney for Mexico in its cases over U.S. guns in the country, told USA TODAY. “If you want to stop the cartels and you want to stop the trafficking of fentanyl and the violence that’s causing migration to the U.S., you need to stop the pipeline of guns trafficked across the bord
“We have been leaders of the free world, and now we are not, clearly,” she said in response to a question from the audience at a March 13 breakfast lecture hosted by the Palm Beach Civic Association at the Beach Club.
Bagley, who has held a position in every Democratic administration since President Jimmy Carter's told the audience that since the Cold War, international aid programs have been an essential part of U.S. foreign policy.
Since the administration of John F. Kennedy, the United States Agency for International Development and other programs funded by the U.S government have served to "develop friends through persuasion," Bagley said.
That has helped the U.S. avoid pursuing foreign policy goals through the military
Rubio still lobbied for the prestigious job of being America’s top diplomat after he lost out on being Trump’s vice president to JD Vance.
What Rubio didn’t count on was that he might run the risk of being overshadowed as secretary of state by one of Trump’s closest friends, real estate developer and billionaire Steve Witkoff.
Over the first two months of the second Trump administration, Rubio has in some ways taken a back seat on the world stage to Witkoff, whose portfolio has expanded beyond his official title of special envoy to the Middle East.
But critics of the decision, including the Canadian who developed and promoted the agreement, warn this is more likely to harm the four countries' civilians and economies than be a successful weapon in warfare.
In a joint statement released Tuesday, the defence ministers of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia recommended withdrawing from the landmine ban, citing the rising threat from Russia and its ally Belarus as the reason.
Although a final decision has yet to be voted on by their respective parliaments, the news has sparked concern in Europe, Canada and among human rights advocates, who warn this departure could undermine the lifesaving treaty established in 1999 — and set off a domino effect with other global agreements.
Number 10 said “thousands” of personnel would be required to support any operation whether by “sea, on land or in the air” as allies prepare “for all eventualities” amid diplomatic efforts to end the war.
Officials from the so-called coalition of the willing will “accelerate the pace and scale” of work to consolidate proposals for possible troop deployment across land, air or sea to safeguard any peace deal.
It comes after Sir Keir Starmer warned Vladimir Putin would face “severe consequences” for breaching any truce as he met defence planners for the first stage of talks at the UK’s Northwood military headquarters
Of 53 vehicles in total, 23 remain operational after aid supplies into Gaza, including fuel, were halted in early March, IFRC spokesperson Tommaso Della Longa told reporters in Geneva.
"It is having a devastating impact. If an ambulance doesn't have gasoline fuel then there are entire communities that are calling the emergency services and are not getting any answer," he added.
Palestinians with everyday health needs as well as those injured by a renewed wave of Israeli airstrikes on the enclave are being impacted by the reduction in vehicles, the IFRC said.
After two months of relative calm, Israel has effectively abandoned a ceasefire, launching a new all-out air and ground campaign against Gaza's dominant Palestinian militant group Hamas.
The attack on the facility in Sudzha comes just days after the US proposed both sides pause attacks on energy infrastructure.
The Russian Defense Ministry claimed Kyiv had “deliberately attacked” the station, which has been under Ukrainian control.
Moscow claims Ukrainian forces blew up the facility while “retreating from the Kursk region” with the aim of “discrediting the US president’s peace initiatives.”
Russia’s Foreign Ministry warned that it “reserves the right to respond, including with a symmetrical response” to what it claims were Ukrainian attacks on Russian energy infrastructure facilities.
Kyiv said accusations as “groundless” and claimed they are aimed at discrediting Ukraine and misleading the international community.
“Indeed, the station has been repeatedly shelled by the Russians themselves,” Ukraine’s General Staff
