[ad_1] Britain and the Netherlands’ plan to help Ukraine acquire F-16 fighter jets has put the United States and some of its closest European allies at odds – again – over what weapons the West should send Kyiv to defend…

[ad_1] Russia fired 30 cruise missiles into various areas of Ukraine early Thursday in the latest overnight test of Ukraine’s air defenses, which shot down 29, officials said. One person was killed and two were wounded by a Russian missile…

[ad_1] Beijing fined a Chinese comedy studio about $2 million on Wednesday for a joke that compared China’s military to stray dogs, a reminder of the increasingly narrow expression of expression under the country’s leader, Xi Jinping. The Beijing Municipal…

[ad_1] Americans are facing shortages of some key drug treatments. Some cancer patients struggle to get chemotherapy drugs. Antibiotics are scarce after a severe flu season. Treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Even children’s Tylenol has become hard to find,…

[ad_1] Computer scientist Eliezer Yudkowsky, who has predicted “we’ll all die” if super-intelligent artificial intelligence is created in the current situation, says he understands the challenges lawmakers face in regulating the system. “An analogy I sometimes use is that AI…

[ad_1] The shadow of two previous brutal wars – and the potential consequences of one raging in Eastern Europe – hung over Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as he arrived in Japan for the opening of the G7 leaders’ summit. The…

[ad_1] Flooding in Alaska has inundated many homes, with some homes blown off their foundations by large chunks of ice, and closed one of the east-west highways to one lane. Ice jams in the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers caused most…

[ad_1] Ukraine’s air defenses shot down six of the most advanced conventional weapons in Russia’s arsenal, hypersonic Kinzhal missiles, according to Ukrainian and American officials, during a missile and drone attack aimed at Kyiv, the capital, on Tuesday. Russia’s Defense…

[ad_1] President Biden left for Japan on Wednesday for a meeting of the leaders of the seven major industrialized democracies that gather each year to try to keep the world economy stable. But in fact, the main potential threat to…