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A bipartisan group of lawmakers is calling for the formation of a committee to consider creation of a new office to counter online propaganda from Russia and China. Diagrams from a Harvard academic study finding the Chinese government posts about 488 million social media posts a year to influence opinions about the country are displayed on a computer screen in Beijing in May. A group of US lawmakers are calling for a new committee to counter online propaganda from Russia and China.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said he and his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko want world peace. Russia is the largest country in the world , covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area, nearly twice as large as the United States and has extensive mineral and energy resources, the largest reserves in the world.
In this May 27, 2016 file photo, a member of a breakaway faction of the Taliban fighters guards a gathering in Shindand district of Herat province, Afghanistan. After months of debate, the White House has approved plans to expand the military's authority to conduct airstrikes against the Taliban when necessary as the violence in Afghanistan escalates, senior U.S. and defense officials said Thursday.
The Royal Navy's HMS Kent intercepted the Stary Oskol, a Russian Kilo-class submarine capable of carrying torpedos and anti-ship cruise missiles on Tuesday evening, the Guardian reports. HMS Kent's commanding officer, Cmdr Daniel Thomas, said: "Locating this submarine was a combined effort with NATO allies and shadowing such units is routine activity for the Royal Navy," the Guardian reports.
In a full-throated general election attack, Hillary Clinton lambasted Donald Trump's foreign policy vision Thursday as one of war, international turmoil and economic crisis. She contrasted that with what she portrayed as her optimistic, inclusive and diplomatic view of the world, born from her long experience in public life.
The speech in San Diego comes as the former secretary of state seeks to shift her attention to the Nov. 8 presidential election against likely rival Trump, and away from Bernie Sanders, the U.S. senator from Vermont who is continuing his long-shot bid for the Democratic nomination. Trump has said he would sit down with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to try to stop Pyongyang's nuclear program and has criticized the decades-old NATO alliance with mainly European nations as obsolete and too costly for the United States.
Female Kurdish Peshmerga walk with their weapons in a village to the east of Mosul, Iraq Photo: Reuters/Azad Lashkari THOUSANDS of U.S.-backed fighters opened a major new front in Syria's war, launching an offensive to drive Islamic State out of a swathe of northern Syria it uses as a logistics base and appearing to make swift initial battlefield advances. The operation, which began on Tuesday after weeks of quiet preparations, aims to choke off the group's access to Syrian land along the Turkish border that the militants have long used to move foreign fighters back and forth to Europe.
Swedish lawmakers are set to vote on 25 May on a Host Nation Agreement with NATO that would represent a step toward further cooperation with the alliance for a nation that has resisted alignment with multilateral military bodies for over 200 years, write Olof Kronvall and Colin Cleary. Olof Kronvall is an expert on transatlantic and European security and teaches at Georgetown and George Washington universities.
Both leaders insisted that they meant it. But Hitler thought that after getting away with militarizing the Rhineland, annexing Austria, and dismantling Czechoslovakia, the Allied appeasers were once again just bluffing.