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In the lush, misty valleys of southwest China, satellite imagery reveals the country’s accelerating nuclear buildup, a force designed for a new age of superpower rivalry.One such valley is known as Zitong, in Sichuan Province, where engineers have been building new bunkers and ramparts. A new complex bristles with pipes, suggesting the facility handles highly hazardous materials.Another valley is home to a double-fenced facility known as Pingtong, where experts believe China is making plutonium-packed cores of nuclear warheads. The main structure, dominated by a 360-foot-high ventilation stack, has been refurbished in recent years with new vents and heat dispersers. More…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! While in Germany for the Munich Security Conference, Hillary Clinton participated in a panel titled, “The West-West Divide: What Remains of Common Values.”During the panel, Clinton appeared to take a stronger approach to her previous stance on border security.ICE RAMPS UP DEPORTATION PUSH BY BOOSTING CAPACITY TO 92,600 BEDS WITH $38.3B EXPANSION”There is a legitimate reason to have a debate about things like migration,” Clinton said. Hillary Clinton calls for ‘secure borders that don’t torture and kill people’ during the Munich Security Conference panel. (Munich Security Conference, David Peinado/Bloomberg via Getty Images)”It…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Canada’s curling team has fired back at Sweden after the Swedes accused the Canadians of cheating at the Winter Olympics. After Sweden accused Canada of double-touching stones on Friday, igniting a global controversy, Canadian curler Marc Kennedy leveled allegations against the Swedes of improperly filming his delivery. “They have come up with a plan here at the Olympics, as far as I know, to catch teams in the act at the hog line,” Kennedy told reporters, per the National Post.”This was planned, right from the word go yesterday. From the words that were being…

The gigantic scale of construction to build and maintain AUKUS submarines has been revealed with the government on the hook for billions in coming decades.

TAIPEI: China is the real threat to security and is hypocritically claiming to uphold UN principles of peace, Taiwan Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung said on Sunday (Feb 15) in a rebuff to comments by China’s top diplomat at the Munich Security Conference.China views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, a view the government in Taipei rejects, saying only Taiwan’s people can decide their future.Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, addressing the annual security conference on Saturday, warned that some countries were “trying to split Taiwan from China”, blamed Japan for tensions over the island and underscored the importance of upholding…

Witnesses say the motorcycle riding gunmen attacked three communities in northern Nigeria, killing and abducting dozens.Listen to this article | 4 minsinfoGunmen on motorcycles have rampaged through three villages in northern Nigeria, killing at least 32 people and abducting several more, according to witnesses and local police.The raids on Saturday in the Borgu area of Niger State came amid a complex security crisis in northern Nigeria, featuring armed groups affiliated with ISIL (ISIS) as well as gangs that abduct people for ransom money.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listWasiu Abiodun, ‌the Niger State police spokesperson, confirmed the attack in one of…

Casey Wasserman, the chairman of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics organizing committee, says he is selling his eponymous talent agency in the wake of the release of emails between himself and Ghislaine Maxwell.Wasserman’s emails with Maxwell were revealed by his appearance in recently released government files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Wasserman, whose agency represents some of the top pop music artists in the world, has not been accused of any wrongdoing.The recently released documents revealed that in 2003 he swapped flirtatious emails with Epstein associate Maxwell, who would years later be convicted of helping Epstein recruit and sexually…

The spectre of One Nation is looming large over an upcoming election, with support surging for the right-wing populist party at state level.A Victorian state poll of 1274 voters, conducted by DemosAU/PremierNational from February 1 to 10, put One Nation’s primary vote at 21 per cent.The result isn’t quite as strong as the 26 per cent watermark indicated in recent national polling.But it represents a 20.7 per cent swing from the 2022 Victorian election across a state that ex-prime minister John Howard once described as the “Massachusetts of Australia” for its left-leaning tendencies.Labor’s primary vote has crumbled to 23 per…

MUNICH: China’s top diplomat Wang Yi told German Chancellor Friedrich Merz that Beijing hoped to bring bilateral ties to a “new level”, as they met on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference on Saturday (Feb 14).Wang has been trying to present Beijing as a more reliable and stable partner of the European Union, as the bloc seeks to reduce its dependence on both China and an unpredictable United States.He told Merz that China hoped to work with Germany to bring the “all-round strategic partnership to a new level”, according to a readout from Beijing’s foreign ministry.With Berlin’s support, Beijing…

Investor Matt Shumer ignited a firestorm on social media this week with an essay that warned about the disruptive potential of AI. More than 80 million views later, he said it “wasn’t meant to scare people.””I want to be very clear about this, the article wasn’t meant to scare people in this way,” Shumer told CNBC’s “Power Lunch” on Friday. “If I had known how viral this was going to go, I would have thought about certain parts and rewritten some of the parts for sure.”The essay, “Something Big Is Happening,” details Shumer’s recent experiences using artificial intelligence. In it,…