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Ukraine’s strongest supporters are rallying around Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s decision to remove the country’s wartime defense minister after a series of corruption scandals have plagued the ministry. Kyiv’s backers say...
As NatSec Daily returns from its vacation, we’re hearing KIM JONG UN is preparing for an armored-train trip of his own. The North Korean leader is expected to meet with Russian President VLADIMIR PUTIN in Vladivostok to make a deal: Moscow gets artillery shells and anti-tank missiles while Pyongyang receives...
During the August 5 crisis at Second Thomas Shoal, the Philippines Department of Foreign Affairs tried to contact its Chinese counterparts through a bilateral hotline. Manila’s effort to de-escalate the standoff despite...
Mohammad Yunis has faced a slew of legal cases, and now is accused of siphoning off dividends owed to workers, labor law violations and corruption. Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus is often called the banker to the poor. He founded the...
Driven in part by the need to pull powerful countries from the orbit of its peer competitors, the United States has entered into a new strategic technology partnership with India, but regulatory hurdles could...
China issued a condemnation of retired Indian military officials over a recent visit to Taiwan, adding to a flaring pattern of disputes between the communist power and India that complicate Beijing's plans to undercut the...
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s hopes of meeting Xi Jinping on the sidelines of next week’s G20 summit appear to have been dashed, with the Chinese president expected to...
Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to visit China this fall, in a rare trip abroad that would undermine Kremlin excuses for his absence from other high-profile summits. “He now feels that he cannot go almost anywhere,” Dr. Sergey Radchenko, an expert in the history of Russian and Chinese...
Russia has accused Ukraine of the largest drone attack on Russian soil since the war began. William Taylor, former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, joins CBS News to examine what the move...
Brazil, China, India, Russia and South Africa -- agreed at a summit last week to add six more members, in what Chinese President Xi Jinping billed as a historic moment among large emerging economies contesting the Western-led order. As the BRICS leaders met in Johannesburg, President Joe Biden's...