KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday awarded Elon Musk the Order of Freedom, one of Ukraine’s highest state honors, for his “outstanding personal merits” in defending human life and freedom and strengthening ties between Ukraine and the United States. Musk, the founder of SpaceX, has turn out to be one of…
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea launched a barrage of ballistic missiles towards the ocean on Thursday, South Korea’s army mentioned, a day after the North shrugged off a U.S. choice to reduce military drills with South Korea in an obvious bid to resume diplomacy. The Joint Chiefs of Staff mentioned the launches of…
VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — Five information reporters and two members of the navy who have been invited to an occasion at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California have been briefly detained at gunpoint by safety officers who thought they have been gate crashers, in keeping with native information studies. The incident occurred…
The Department of Defense has ordered 30 U.S. universities to audit their partnerships with largely Chinese universities and army coaching establishments because the Trump administration scrutinizes the nation’s growing global influence. If the colleges don’t full a evaluate and terminate any preparations deemed problematic throughout the subsequent two weeks, they face dropping funding. The aim…
BUCHAREST, Romania — Since Russia’s full invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the war has repeatedly spilled throughout Romania’s border as drones violate the airspace of the neighboring European Union and NATO member. Now Romania is attempting one thing new to cease the incursions: shooting down the drones. Romanian pilots shot down the primary of…
IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — The U.S. military mentioned Friday that it fired on one other merchant vessel that was trying to breach its blockade of Iran’s ports, whereas the Islamic Republic focused American strongholds across the Persian Gulf. The U.S. and Iran confirmed no signal of backing away from their conflict after a 13th straight…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The cherry blossoms draw greater than one million guests to Washington’s Tidal Basin yearly. This yr was no totally different, besides some strolling the realm between the Lincoln Memorial and the Thomas Jefferson Memorial have been dressed in camouflage — and armed. Eight months after President Donald Trump declared a crime emergency…
BAGHDAD (AP) — Aboard an oil tanker plying the tense waters between the Gulf of Oman and the Strait of Hormuz, Iraqi Captain Rahman Al-Jubouri continues to work in a single of the world’s most volatile maritime corridors, the place the U.S.-Israel battle with Iran has disrupted international commerce and left some crews stranded and…
TWICE mirror on a decade as a group: ‘There’s a lot extra we are able to do’ | AP interview Speaking backstage on the Kia Forum during a cease on their ‘THIS IS FOR’ World Tour, TWICE sit down with Associated Press leisure journalist Liam McEwan to mirror on a decade collectively — and the…
WASHINGTON — The world’s largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, broke the U.S. record Wednesday for the longest post-Vietnam War deployment, a virtually 10-month span that noticed it participate in each the navy raid in Venezuela and the Iran battle. The ship’s 295th day at sea surpassed the earlier longest deployment by an…