Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), a 40-year-old bank specializing in services to tech start-ups, entrepreneurs, and venture capital firms was shut down by federal regulators on 10 March after depositors pulled their money out in an old-style run on the bank.
China will increase its military budget by about 7.2 percent in 2023 to make its military a “world class” force by 2049.
The House of Representatives voted in opposition to a bill that would call for the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops stationed in Syria’s oil-rich region under the guise of fighting ISIS.
Chinese President Xi Jinping took a firmer stance against the U.S. during a meeting of the country’s legislature last week and signaled a shift in tone as he secured his unprecedented third term as president.
Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin’s press secretary, brushed off the recent New York Times report that laid blame on a “pro-Ukrainian group” with no ties to the U.S. or Kyiv for the September attack on the Nord Stream pipelines.
French President Emmanuel Macron and U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak held their first meeting in Paris last week and the topic du jour was Ukraine and what it will take for a defeat of Russia.
The European Union is set to provide Ukraine with another injection of $1.1 billion in ammunition so it can continue to exchange deadly volleys with Russia.
The Ukrainian military decided that it will throw in the kitchen sink to defend the Russian-annexed city of Bakhmut located in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, which has been raging since August.
China has used a range of espionage, from spies, honey traps, bribery of American academics, contractors, and government officials, to more sophisticated cyber hacking to steal vital military data.
The Netherlands government has resorted to calling in the nation’s military to intimidate civilian farmers and their supporters, protesting land confiscations in the name of climate agenda “zero carbon” goals.