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Chinese Pig Farmers Report Suspected Swine Fever Outbreaks As Prices Fall Authored by Michael Zhuang via The Epoch Times, Pig farmers in several parts of China are reporting suspected outbreaks of African swine fever that they say have killed large numbers of pigs and forced some farms to clear their herds, adding pressure on small producers already struggling with falling prices and weak demand. Piglets drink milk from a sow at a pig farm in Yaji, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China on March 21, 2018. Thomas Suen/ReutersFarmers in several provinces told The...

Top Israeli officials continue to say that Tel Aviv will not comply with the peace deal that President Donald Trump is negotiating with Iran. Tehran says a top priority is expanding the ceasefire to Lebanon.  “Because what happened in the past in security zones, where there was also a civilian population [present], was roadside bombs […]

Ukraine Plans To Hyper-Innovate Humanoid Robot Soldiers At the start of February, we pointed out that "humanoid warfare nears" and suspected these war bots were headed for Ukraine for testing.  That hunch was confirmed by early March, after a TIME Magazine article reported that Foundation Robotics, a U.S.-based startup developing humanoid robots for industrial and military applications, had recently sent two Phantom MK1 robots to Ukraine for testing.  Mike LeBlanc, co-founder of Foundation...  The modern battlefield across western Eurasia has become the world's AI weapons lab, where drones, autonomous systems, electronic warfare, and...