Indiana Air Force Base construction funding could be diverted to pay for border wall
WIB airWIB politics March 28, 2019 0
Carson Gerber Kokomo Tribune, Ind. Two major construction projects at Grissom Air Reserve Base totaling $21.5 million could be diverted to fund President Donald Trump’s expanded border wall between U.S. and Mexico. The Department of Defense last week released a full list of military construction projects that could be... Read more
Navy challenged by House lawmakers on USS Harry S. Truman’s early retirement
WIB politicsWIB sea March 28, 2019 0
Caitlin M. Kenney Stars and Stripes WASHINGTON— A Navy decision to decommission the USS Harry S. Truman, taking the aircraft carrier out of service 25 years early and put the savings into future investments, has left some House lawmakers scratching their heads at the service’s drastic cost-cutting measure at... Read more
Shishir Gupta and Sudhi Ranjan Sen Hindustan Times, New Delhi At a little over 11.10am Wednesday, a 13 metre-long, 19-ton missile took off from the Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Island launch complex off the coast of Odisha. Three minutes and 10 seconds later, it struck the 6,900mm-wide heart of... Read more
Trump administration warns Russia against troop buildup in Venezuela
WIB politicsWIB sea March 26, 2019 0
By Franco Ordonez McClatchy Washington Bureau Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called the Russian foreign minister on Monday to tell him the United States won’t “stand idly by” as Russia sends military forces to Venezuela. Pompeo warned Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov that Russia was exacerbating tensions in Venezuela and... Read more
South Korea pays for vast US Army base expansion, but Trump wants it to pay more
WIB frontWIB politics March 25, 2019 0
By David S. Cloud Los Angeles Times The new golf course and clubhouse will open next month. Along MacArthur Circle, 23 stone-clad villas reserved for American generals are finished, as are five apartment towers for military families. Over by an airfield that buzzes day and night with Blackhawk and... Read more
Trump says it’s time for US to recognize Israel’s sovereignty over Golan Heights
WIB landWIB politics March 22, 2019 0
By Tracy Wilkinson Los Angeles Times President Donald Trump announced Thursday that the United States will recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, a fertile expanse of land Israel seized from Syria decades ago, handing the government of Benjamin Netanyahu another prize and angering the international community. In a... Read more
By Nabih Bulos and Tracy Wilkinson Los Angeles Times One day after President Donald Trump signaled a change in U.S. policy certain to alienate Arab allies, America’s top diplomat traveled to Beirut on Friday to denounce Iran and urge that its “proxies” be removed from the Lebanese government. Secretary... Read more
Marine Corps commandant says deploying troops to the border poses ‘unacceptable risk’
WIB frontWIB landWIB politics March 21, 2019 0
By Molly O’Toole Los Angeles Times The commandant of the Marines has warned the Pentagon that deployments to the southwest border and funding transfers under the president’s emergency declaration, among other unexpected demands, have posed “unacceptable risk to Marine Corps combat readiness and solvency.” In two internal memos, Marine... Read more
Funds to deter Russia, build base schools in Europe could go to US-Mexico border wall
WIB frontWIB politics March 20, 2019 0
John Vandiver Stars and Stripes The U.S. military’s buildup along NATO’s eastern flank, stretching from the Baltics and Poland down to Romania and Bulgaria, could be curtailed if the Trump administration elects to delay or cancel scores of planned construction projects to fund a border wall. The Pentagon on... Read more
Nelson Oliveira New York Daily News President Trump is operating in the wrong hemisphere. Trump raised eyebrows Tuesday after he suggested “possibly” making Brazil a member of NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization made up of North American and European countries. The apparent off-script remark took place during a... Read more
