The American journalist Evan Gershkovich, arrested in Russia, remains in pre-trial detention. He had appealed against his pre-trial detention, but that was rejected by a Moscow court on Tuesday. The 31-year-old journalist of The Wall Street Journal was arrested at the end of March and is detained on suspicion of espionage. He could face up to twenty years in prison …

According to the Pentagon, the Chinese spy balloon, which was shot down over the United States at the end of January, still managed to collect military data. According to the US Department, this is also the reason that it hovered over important US places. The question now is whether the information collected was actually sent to Beijing. According to the …

The United States and Canada said on Friday that they will work together to establish a bilateral Semiconductor Manufacturing corridor, while International Business Machines has indicated its desire to expand in Canada. The news came as U.S. President Joe Biden, who is visiting Canada, along with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged to act together against authoritarian regimes, including by …

Angry investors in the United States have sued Credit Suisse after the Swiss bank’s substantial loss of market value. They claim that the Financial Group presented its own operations too brightly in the annual report for 2021. In it, Credit Suisse made no mention of deficiencies in internal controls, which later came to light. Credit Suisse shares lost nearly 16 …

Since Benjamin Netanyahu took office again as prime minister of Israel, he has not received an invitation from the White House. He actually counted on this during the visit of US Secretary of state Blinken to Israel, at the beginning of this year. The absence of the official invitation would have to do with concerns from the Americans about Israeli …

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 …