Edward Snowden's 2013 leak of US National Security Agency (NSA information helped the world see more clearly what the US - in its current manifestation - really is. Its extensive, abusive surveillance network targeted friends and foes alike around the globe but also pointed inward at America's own population. It provided the clearest picture to date of the methods...

Russian state media reported a successful test flight of its new hypersonic missile, the Zircon. Flying at Mach 8 (8 times the speed of sound or around 10,000 kph, the missile poses a new and credible threat to the air defense systems of potential aggressors. Fired from vertical launch tubes on a Russian warship, the missile is capable of striking both targets at sea...

AFP in an article titled, “US removes group targeted by China from terror list,” would report: The United States said Friday it had removed from its list of terror groups a shadowy faction regularly blamed by China to justify its harsh crackdown in the Muslim-majority Xinjiang region. In a notice in the Federal Register, which publishes new US laws and rules Secretary of State Mike…