When President Joe Biden announced on Jan. 15, 2025 that the United States had successfully brokered a fragile ceasefire and phased hostage exchange between Israel and Hamas, he underscored how the cessation of violence could open the doorway for regional integration and economic prosperity: “At the G20 summit in Delhi in September 2023, I rallied key countries behind a vision of an economic corridor from India across the Middle East to Europe. That vision can now become a reality.” That vision, known as the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor, was launched on Sept.
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President Donald Trump will sign an executive order today to create an ‘Iron Dome’ style defense system in the United States, DailyMail.com has learned.
It would be an American version of the famed Israeli missile defense system.
Incoming Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth hinted the order was coming when he walked into the Pentagon on Monday, his first day on the new job…
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For as long as she can remember, Chealsea Fox has known she wanted to open a coffee shop. The former teacher and Army National Guard soldier got her wish on December 13, 2024, when – alongside her husband, Tom, and four other co-owners, Jack and Hannah Wagner and Jerry and Julie Hashagen – FR8 House Coffee opened in Norfolk, Virginia.
“It was always my dream to open up a coffee shop,” Fox, 33, told We Are The Mighty, adding that she taught with Hannah and convinced her fellow teacher to join in on her vision.
A civilian picked up an M4 rifle that fell off a Delaware National Guard truck earlier this month as it drove toward a training center. When police tracked down the weapon the next day, the person who’d picked it up had yet to report that they’d found it.
Delaware officials did not say if the finder planned on keeping the gun and an investigation of the incident by state police ended in no charges being filed.
Kicking off his first Monday in the office as the new secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth briefly spotlighted his team’s earliest leadership priorities — including executing on President Trump’s new vision to institute a powerful U.S. missile defense system.
“Our job is lethality, and readiness and warfighting,” Hegseth told a small group of reporters on the steps outside the Pentagon’s River Entrance.
After narrowly winning Senate confirmation late Friday, Hegseth was officially sworn in on Saturday at a ceremony attended by his family and close colleagues.
Mike Kofman joined Ryan for a wide-ranging conversation on the challenges faced by both Ukraine and Russia this year. They discuss losses on both sides, manpower challenges, the importance of following the discourse in Ukraine, the Russian economy, and whether the Russian pace of operations will clearly slow down. This episode is brought to you by Bedrock Knowledge. Image: Army Inform
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The US State Department has reported a 29% increase in its military equipment sales to foreign governments, reaching $318.7bn in FY24.
The Franco-German MGCS programme reached a significant milestone with the signing of the shareholder agreement for the MGCS Project Company.
The US Pentagon may be losing out on big savings in the longer-term as the department fails to coordinate common systems across programmes.
Ukraine’s Defence Procurement Agency has called out the country’s Ministry of Defence, citing “illegal interference” in appointments.