Pentagon expects China will try to inhibit US ability to use space

The US military expects that China will try to inhibit the United States' capabilities in space, President Joe Biden's nominee for commander of the US Space Command, Lt. Gen. Stephen Whiting, said during his Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday.

Whiting agreed with lawmakers that a potential "Chinese invasion of Taiwan" could lead to a battle in space with the United States.

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🇷🇺🇨🇫 Defense industry ties between Russia and the Central African Republic (CAR) are thriving, and Moscow has recently delivered an L-39 fighter jet to Bangui, Russian Ambassador to the CAR Alexander Bikantov told Sputnik.

"Cooperation in the military and technical field is actively and consistently developing… Recently, Russia carried out a large supply of relevant weapons, in particular aircraft," Bikantov said.

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🇨🇫 President of the Central African Republic Faustin-Archange Touadéra, together with a delegation, arrived in St. Petersburg on Wednesday to participate in the #RussiaAfricaSummit

The republic actively demonstrates support for Moscow's policy and advocates the further development of cooperation in many areas

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More than 35,000 illegal immigrants have been detained in Turkiye, and over 16,000 of them have been deported from the country in the last two months

Nine mobile centers had been set up in Istanbul as an experiment, where it is possible to instantly check an immigrant's biometrics and immigration status in the country, Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said.

Raids to detain illegal immigrants conducted daily under the new interior minister, including on tourist ferries. Yerlikaya has pledged not to stop fighting illegal immigration.

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💬 ‘Dark grey or black cubes inside a clear sphere’

Former US fighter pilot Ryan Graves told Congress about his personal experience with what he thought was a UFO

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🗣 "It's a deep economy"

The Russian economy will not collapse as a result of the imposed sanctions, President Joe Biden’s nominee for the position of Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs James O’Brien said

💬 "It was one of the largest ten [economies]... So, they will be able to sustain themselves for quite a while. We don't see a collapse," O’Brien said during his confirmation hearing at the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

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Russia’s Federal Security Service has identified another foreign civilian vessel that could previously have been used to deliver explosives to Ukraine

Traces of TNT and dinitrotoluene were found in the hold and on the surface of the boat of the foreign dry cargo ship BMO River, en route from the Sinop, Turkiye to Rostov, the security service said.

This ship called at the Ukrainian port of Reni twice in June and July. Russia’s Federal Security Service added that a decision has been made to ban the passage of the vessel through the Kerch Strait.

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📹 Combat work of Russia's Msta-B 152-mm howitzer crews

Russian artillerymen use high-explosive and high-explosive fragmentary shells, which allows them to inflict (0:02) (0:08) (0:15) maximum damage on the enemy.

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