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Chinese defense spending rose by 5.6 per cent in constant US dollar terms (File photo)

For a quarter century, the US and its allies owned the skies, fighting wars secure in the knowledge that no opponent could compete in the air. As tensions with Russia and China surge, that's no longer the case.

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Washington:  A Maryland man has pleaded guilty to charges that he failed to register as a foreign agent in connection with lobbying work he did for the Pakistani government in an effort to shape U.S. foreign policy, the Justice Department said on Monday.The newly unsealed case against Nisar Ahmed Chaudhry, a Pakistani
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Minneapolis, Chicago and Green Bay, Wis., all posted one of their top-five coldest Aprils (File)

What happened in the back yard of many Americans last month was not at all representative of the experience elsewhere in the world.

While it was freezing

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Trump may now also decide to announce the fate of the rest of Washington's nuclear-related sanctions

Washington:  President Donald Trump will confirm on Tuesday whether he will make good on a threat to re-impose US sanctions on Tehran and thereby throw the entire Iran nuclear deal into question.

Trump's announcement that a

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Washington:  President Donald Trump will not travel to Israel next week for the opening of the new US embassy in Jerusalem, the White House said Monday, announcing that Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan will lead the delegation.

Trump's daughter Ivanka and her husband, senior White House aide Jared Kushner, will

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Haspel is expected to face challenging confirmation hearing in Senate Intelligence Committee

Washington:  U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday defended his pick to run the CIA after sources said she had sought to withdraw from the nomination over concerns about her involvement in the agency's interrogation programme.

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