22 декабря 2024 года
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - US President Joe Biden has signed a temporary budget bill, ending the formal US government shutdown, the White House said on Saturday.
Beijing, which considers Taiwan an essential part of China, has repeatedly lashed out at America’s weapon sales to Taiwan, which it says undermines Chinese-US relations and jeopardizes peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait.
Relations between the US and China soured amid the trade war started by Washington during Donald Trump’s first presidency. Now, US authorities have become increasingly prone to accusing Chinese companies of posing a threat to their national security.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed holding a technological duel of sorts between the products of Russian and Western military-industrial complexes, respectively.
The US-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) has vowed to resist the advance of Turkiye and Ankara-backed Syrian militant groups in Kobani, as quoted by Reuters, after a Turkish defense official rejected a US-brokered ceasefire deal with the Kurds.
MOSCOW, December 20 (Sputnik) - A government funding bill, proposed by Republicans to avoid a government shutdown on Saturday, has not passed the House of Representatives, according to the voting results.
MOSCOW, December 20 (Sputnik) - The US Defense Department said it had signed a $3 billion contract for research and development of the missile defense system through January 2034.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday called the medium-range Oreshnik missile systems a modern type of weapon.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is holding his annual end-of-year press conference in Moscow on Thursday, combined with the annual "Direct Line" question-and-answer session.
House Republicans and Democrats had negotiated a stopgap spending plan to keep the federal government funded at current rates until March 14, 2025. However, the proposed vote on the spending package in the House was canceled on Wednesday evening.
