US Defense budget of 716 billion approved
washington August 14, 2018 08:45US President Donald Trump signed a bill on Monday with a defense budget of $ 716 billion. Its purpose is to modernize the army and to promote preparedness.
US President Donald Trump signed a bill on Monday with a defense budget of $ 716 billion. Its purpose is to modernize the army and to promote preparedness.
A Spanish fighter plane accidentally fired an anti-aircraft missile during a practice mission over Estonia on Tuesday. According to the newspaper El Pais, the projectile did not cause any damage. An investigation has been conducted into the cause.
The rapprochement between Ethiopia and Eritrea is entering a new phase. The Eritrean president Isaias Afwerki will make a return visit to Addis Ababa tomorrow, after the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed visited Asmara last weekend. Now the hard work begins to put the beautiful words and promises of the past weeks and months into action.
Israel has again bombed Iranian targets in Syria. This is reported by Syrian state media on Sunday. The attackers would have attacked the Syrian air base of Tiyas, 140 kilometers northeast of Damascus, from the Jordanian airspace with their fighter planes. An airplane would have been hit and the rest would have been chased away by the anti-aircraft, according to the Syrian sources.
The US military is preparing for the reception of immigrants at two military bases in Texas. US government sources said that the intention is to set up temporary camps on Fort Bliss and the Goodfellow Air Force Base.
What should have been an adventurous leap, base jumper Robert Haggarty was fatal. The 47-year-old Briton died in a 2.9-kilometer jump in the Dolomites.
The oil sector represents the largest decrease in production capacity in thirty years. The buffer held by Opec countries is threatening to drop to 2% due to high demand, the bottom since 1984. In conflicts or production constraints, there is not much of a price increase.
Three new crew members arrived at the International Space Station on Friday after a flight of about two days. It is a German, a Russian and an American.
The North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is expected to arrive Sunday in Singapore for the meeting later in the week with US President Donald Trump. This has been explained by sources that are involved in the visit.
Three new crew members went to the international space station ISS. These are Alexander Gerst from Germany, Sergey Prokopyev from Russia and Serena Auñón from America. They were launched on Wednesday from space base Baikonur in Kazakhstan. They arrive at the floating lab on Friday, where they will live in the coming months.
US President Donald Trump will receive a letter from North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Friday. Trump announced that Thursday.
Real Madrid has won the Champions League on Saturday for the third year in a row. In Kiev, Zinedine Zidane's team accounted for 3-1 with Liverpool from the Dutch team Virgil van Dijk and Georginio Wijnaldum.
Russia denies that once a Russian missile installation has crossed the border with Ukraine. According to news agency Sputnik, the Russian Ministry of Defense reiterates that no Russian soldiers were involved in the downing of flight MH17.
It has been confirmed several times, but thanks to French medical scientists it is now one hundred percent certain: Adolf Hitler committed suicide in 1945. The French investigated the jaw of the Fuehrer who has been in possession of Russia since the end of the Second World War, and established that it is authentic.
Denmark withdraws about sixty elite soldiers from Iraq. The country decided to do so because most areas that were in the hands of the terrorist group Islamic State have since been liberated.
Sherpa veteran Kami Rita (48) has reached the summit of Mount Everest for the 22nd time in his career as a mountain guide. He is now only record holder. The Nepalese Ministry of Tourism announced this on Wednesday. The routinier stood in the morning with a group of Chinese people on top of the highest mountain on earth, on the border of Nepal and Tibet.
US President Donald Trump welcomed Thursday the three Americans released by North Korea. The president, along with his wife Melania, boarded the plane that brought the three to the American air base Andrews at Washington.
According to the Israeli army, Iran has fired about twenty projectiles to targets on the Golan Heights. That shelling from Syria according to that country was not much later answered by Israel with missiles on Syrian targets.
According to the Israeli army, Iran has fired about twenty projectiles to targets on the Golan Heights.
The rocket attack by Israel on an Iranian base in Syria, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, certainly killed fourteen people. According to the British-based organization, eight Iranians are among the dead.
Israel has again carried out rocket attacks in Syria. The target was an army base south of the capital Damascus. State press agency SANA has shown images of the havoc caused by the missiles. This shows how the fire service tries to extinguish multiple fireplaces.
Two Russian pilots were killed in a helicopter accident in Syria. According to the Russian news agency TASS, their helicopter crashed during a routine flight over the east of the country.
Belgium is making more soldiers available to the international coalition against IS at the request of the United States. From mid-May, more than a hundred soldiers will be deployed extra. That has been decided by the Council of Ministers.
The US has formally complained to China about Chinese people who seem to have American air force pilots with lasers at their base in Djibouti. The US has a base in the African country where about four thousand people are stationed.
The North Korean leader Kim Jung-un wants to invite experts and journalists from the United States and South Korea to join in the closure of the site where nuclear tests have been conducted for years. That is what a government spokesman in Seoul said on Sunday.
A European satellite that needs to monitor global warming was launched on Wednesday. The Sentinel-3B rose from a space base in the far north of Russia. It is the twin brother of the Sentinel 3A, which was already launched in 2016.
In the Malinese city of Timbuktu, loud explosions have been heard at a UN base where a blue helmet was killed last week and several people were injured after an attack by Muslim extremists.
An F16 pilot from the military base in Kleine Brogel in Belgium was blinded by the rays of a laser pen on Tuesday evening. A man from the town of Peer is suspected of having blindly dazzled the pilot.
Israel braces itself for an Iranian attack. It fears that the Revolutionary Guard will take revenge for an Israeli military action over a week ago against an Iranian base in Syria.
Russian President Putin and German government leader Merkel have called each other on Tuesday and talked about Syria and the project Nord Stream 2, the natural gas pipelines from Russia. Putin has again complained, according to Russian media, that the Western attacks on Syria last weekend violate international law and damage the peace process there.