Americas
Report: CIA Ran Covert Drone Campaign Against Ecuadorian Fishing Boats Near Galápagos
A secret CIA programme, not the Pentagon's publicly acknowledged strikes, was behind a string of drone attacks on three Ecuadorian fishing...
US–Japan Deep Sea Mine to Break China’s Rare Earth Grip
Washington and Tokyo are preparing to dig the deepest mine ever attempted — almost six kilometres beneath the Pacific, in mud...
Golden Dome Opens Its Doors to Industry, but the Money May Run Out First
The United States Department of War opened a new digital front door to private industry on 11 August, aiming to speed...
Chinese National Arrested in Saipan Over US Military Modem Plot
A Chinese national who once warned his own supplier that American soil was too dangerous for a meeting has pleaded guilty...
Empty Magazines: How One War Broke America’s Three-Theatre Promise
America has promised for eighty years to defend Europe, the Middle East and the Indo-Pacific all at once. A single war...
Catering Truck, Decoy Jet: How Trump Slipped Out of Turkey
President Donald Trump left Turkey last month hidden inside an airport catering truck, then flew on to Britain aboard a third...
US Destroyer Burns Four Drones Out of the Sky With a Laser
A US Navy destroyer used a ship-mounted laser to destroy four drones during an at-sea demonstration, Lockheed Martin has confirmed —...
Colombia searches for 2,700 missing as quake toll passes 130
At least 132 people died and about 570 were injured when a 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck western Colombia on Monday. More...
Cheques and balances: the Beijing-linked money quietly flowing through America’s universities
A company that builds engines for China's attack helicopters is not an obvious patron of American higher education. Yet for...
Cheap until it isn’t: how Beijing learned to set the price of the modern world
In 1995 a consortium of Chinese state-linked firms, working alongside an American investment house, bought Magnequench, the General Motors offshoot that...
Grounded: Pentagon strips Biden’s air force chief of his clearance over Qatari jet leak
New Delhi: The Pentagon has revoked the security clearance of Frank Kendall, the air force secretary under Joe Biden, accusing...
Pentagon Rewrites the Nuclear Playbook, and This Time the Bombs Are Smaller
The US Department of War is drafting a nuclear strategy that would rely far more heavily on smaller, shorter-range nuclear weapons...
