Russia will continue to observe the limits set under the recently-expired New START nuclear arms reduction treaty if the United States does the same, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Wednesday. “We proceed from the fact that this moratorium, on our part, which was announced by our president, will remain in effect, but only as…
Experts have warned that the expiry of the US-Russia New START treaty could spark a fresh nuclear arms race. Published On 4 Feb 20264 Feb 2026 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Russia says it is “no longer bound” by limits on the number of nuclear warheads it can deploy, as the…
The Democratic Alliance reiterates our call for urgent accountability as the continued loss and theft of state-owned firearms fuels violent crime across the country. More concerning is the scale of these failures. A DA parliamentary question revealed that a total of 170 SAPS-owned firearms were reported as lost or stolen from police armouries over the…
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has called for international action to cut off the supply of weapons to Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), who are accused of mass killings in el-Fasher. At the end of a G7 foreign ministers meeting in Canada, Rubio said the RSF had committed systematic atrocities, including murder, rape…
Russian President Vladimir Putin has instructed his government to submit proposals on the possible resumption of nuclear weapons testing in response to President Trump instructing the Pentagon to do so “on an equal basis” with other countries. In a meeting Wednesday with his Security Council, Putin said Russia has adhered to the international Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban…
GYEONGJU, South Korea — President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he had instructed the Pentagon to “immediately” resume testing nuclear weapons. “Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis,” Trump said in a Truth Social post shortly before his highly…
OpenAI’s ChatGPT has guardrails that are supposed to stop users from generating information that could be used for catastrophic purposes, like making a biological or nuclear weapon. But those guardrails aren’t perfect. Some models ChatGPT uses can be tricked and manipulated. In a series of tests conducted on four of OpenAI’s most advanced models, two…
It may fumble its final moments but Weapons builds on the successes of filmmaker Zach Cregger’s previous effort Barbarian, harnessing many of the same techniques to create a more sophisticated, polished and consistently engrossing horror film. Weapons shows that it’s entirely possible to craft a pitch-black fairy tale set in the modern world. Weapons is…
Chinese military to showcase advanced fighter planes, missile systems on 80th anniversary of end of World War II. China will stage a massive military parade next month in the heart of Beijing to commemorate 80 years since the end of World War II, and to showcase new Chinese weaponry that will be “displayed to the…
North Korea said Tuesday that while the relationship between its leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump is “not bad,” the United States must accept the isolated country as a nuclear weapons state. Dismissing the idea of further talks on denuclearization, Kim’s powerful sister said that reality has changed since Trump’s first term in…
