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Late tonight Israel launching air strikes into Syria... Israel's Credit Outlook lowered from "stable" to "negative"... Finnish investigators say the anchor of a Chinese container ship became dislodged damaging a natural gas pipeline... Russian Aerospace Forces in Syria striking targets of terrorist groups in the northwestern Idlib Region... The Pentagon now says that two dozen US military personnel were hurt in drone attacks on American bases in Iraq and Syria... Today a Russian SU-27 fighter intercepted a US spy drone approaching Russia in the Black Sea... The United Auto Workers expanding their strike against automakers to include a General Motors...

“I am very sort to inform you, Ambassador Burns, that our esteemed minister of national defense, Li Shangfu, will not under any circumstances at this time have a dialogue with Lloyd Austin. It has come to our attention that Lloyd Austin is not a real defense secretary, and his superior, Joseph Biden, is apparently not a real president of the United States of America. We have learned Lloyd Austin speaks for only a portion of your country’s armed forces and that Joseph Biden isn’t in control of your country’s nuclear weapons. This is an alarming revelation—your house is not in...

SINGAPORE — China put European patience to the test on Saturday, with a seasoned Chinese diplomat attributing Russia’s war on Ukraine to a failed security architecture in Europe. It fell to Dutch Defense Minister Kajsa Ollongren to challenge that very Chinese interpretation. “I was actually a little bit surprised to hear it,” Ollongren told POLITICO in an interview moments after she made an impromptu rebuttal of ex-ambassador Cui Tiankai on a panel at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore. “It’s very, very false.” Cui, a former envoy to the U.S. and unofficially an adviser to the Chinese delegation at this top...