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The US Has Restarted Jungle Warfare In Panama After 25 Years For the first time in roughly 25 years, the US has restarted jungle warfare training in Panama, signaling a broader return of American military activity in Latin America, according to a new Bloomberg feature. At a rainforest training center near Colón, US troops practice survival techniques, patrol operations, casualty evacuations, and combat drills with Panamanian forces. The environment is intentionally unforgiving—thick jungle, venomous snakes, relentless insects—and soldiers often depend on machetes to move through dense terrain. One Panamanian instructor mocked...

Japanese Bond Yields Surge To 30 Year High On Report Tokyo May Hike Defense Spending To 3.5% Of GDP Just in case Japan's bond yields weren't high enough already, Bloomberg reports that Japan is considering a new mid-term defense spending target of 3.5% of GDP in line with NATO and other US allies. Such a move would send a shockwave through financial markets concerned about Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s spending plans at a time when Japan is preparing to trim tax receipts even more by cutting consumption tax to 1%. Japanese defense officials...

FBI Made Over 8,900 Arrests, Located 1,410 Child Victims Under Operation Summer Heat 2.0 Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The Federal Bureau of Investigation has located 1,410 children and arrested 8,927 individuals in around three and a half months under Operation Summer Heat 2.0. FBI Director Kash Patel speaks at the Nassau County Police Academy David S. Mack Center for Training and Intelligence in Garden City, N.Y., on Aug. 14, 2026. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch TimesCompared to Operation Summer Heat 1.0, which concluded in 2025, arrests are up 3 percent...