Canada will boost investment in the green transition in this year’s budget to compete with the U.S.’s massive stimulus, but the goal is to claim some of the growing clean-tech industry, not to compete against the world’s largest economy, according to a senior Canadian government source. Countries around the world are trying to take advantage of a rapid shift to …

US Secretary of defense Lloyd Austin made an unannounced visit to Iraq. He thus shows that the Americans want to remain militarily present in the torn country. The U.S. still has 2,500 troops in Iraq and 900 in neighboring Syria. Austin stressed during a visit to Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ Al-Sudani that the Americans will remain there invited by …

The North Korean Foreign Ministry has accused the United States of deliberately escalating tensions by conducting joint air maneuvers with South Korea. The North Korean state news agency KCNA said on Tuesday. “Despite our frequent warnings, the U.S. continues to deliberately escalate the situation,” the Department said in a statement dated Monday. “The recent joint air exercises (…) clearly demonstrate …

The United States on Monday denounced the Security Council’s “forced silence” and “dangerous” inaction following North Korea’s recent missile launches. Washington accuses Russia and China of acting as a shield for Pyongyang. The US ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, reiterated her displeasure at the vetoes that China and Russia issued last May against a resolution imposing new sanctions on …

Also in the years when Donald Trump was president of the United States, several Chinese balloons flew over American territory. Those were not always noticed by the Pentagon, admits General Glen VanHerck, responsible for the security of North American airspace. In recent years, at least five times such a balloon would have been detected, including over Texas, Florida, Hawaii and …

WhatsApp’s lawsuit against spywaremaker NSO Group could continue after a US Supreme Court ruling. NSO Group has been trying to challenge the case for years, but after the decision of the Supreme Court, it can be continued definitively. The United States Supreme Court on Monday struck a line through NSO Group’s appeal. In april 2022, as part of the WhatsApp …

The United States and Qatar exported almost as much liquefied natural gas (LNG) last year. The U.S. could have even been the world’s largest lng exporter. However, the question is how long the country will remain on a par with Qatar. Both countries exported 81.2 million tons of LNG last year, Bloomberg News Agency reports based on ship data. The …

Where we are heading at breakneck speed towards a green, changeable and rather soft Christmas in the Netherlands, large parts of America will have to deal with an equally rapid, but also violent outbreak of arctic cold. In a few days, a wave of extremely cold air, coming from the freezer in the interior of Canada, falls over the eastern …

The United States has asked Japan to limit chip exports to China. The US Secretary of the economy, Gina Raimondo, is said to have filed the request on Friday by phone with the Japanese Minister of trade, Yasutoshi Nishimura. Never before has such a request from the US on the issue been made at the ministerial level. As a result …

The EU and US will work more closely together to strengthen the supply chains of chips and semiconductors. Among other things, the two regions will do so by exchanging information on their state aid plans for the chip sector, in order to avoid subsidy races. Top US and EU officials said in a joint statement that the two regions are …