China To Accelerate The Construction Of Coal-Fired Power Plants

If the US invades Iran, Tehran will act through its allies in Yemen to close the Bab al-Mandab Strait, which connects the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean.  “If the enemy wants to take action on land in the Iranian islands or anywhere else in our lands or to inflict costs on Iran with naval […]

Russia-Linked Arms Trafficker, Corrupt African Officials Tried To Supply Mexican Cartel With Surface-To-Air Missiles Submitted by The Bureau's Sam Cooper (emphasis our own),  Federal prosecutors in Virginia have charged four men — a Bulgarian arms trafficker with ties to the notorious Russian weapons dealer Viktor Bout, and several African co-conspirators with connections to the governments of Uganda and Tanzania — with conspiring to supply the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generación with a $58 million military arsenal that included rocket launchers, surface-to-air missiles, anti-aircraft drones, and high-powered explosives the brokers boasted could bring...

Pull-Forward Demand Boosts PC Shipments Amid Memory Crunch Woes The latest snapshot of the global PC market, from International Data Corporation's first-quarter shipment tracker, shows units rising 2.5% year over year to 65.6 million. "Despite deteriorating macroeconomic conditions and memory shortage issues, the PC market recorded another quarter of positive growth," IDC wrote in the report published on Thursday morning. IDC said last quarter's growth was "mostly fueled by the anticipation of rising component prices, Windows 10 migration, and new product introductions." Jean Philippe Bouchard, research vice president at IDC, noted, "The...