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Chinese official talks with North Korean counterpart in the nations’ highest-level meeting in years

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SEOUL, South Korea — SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A top Chinese official arrived in North Korea and held talks on how to boost their cooperation, North Korea’s state media reported Friday, in the counties’ highest-level meeting in about five years. Zhao Leji, who is chairman of China’s National People’s Congress and considered the No. … Read more

In rare call, Russian defense minister warns French counterpart against sending troops to Ukraine

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MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s defense minister warned his French counterpart against deploying troops to Ukraine in a rare phone call Wednesday and noted that Moscow is ready to take part in talks to end the conflict. Sergei Shoigu told French Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu that if Paris follows up on its statements about the possibility … Read more

Toppled Lunar Landers and More of February’s Best Space Images

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Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus landing during its descent towards the lunar surface. Image: Intuitive Machines It was a topsy-turvy month in spaceflight, with yet another lunar lander falling over and an upsetting new view showing NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter missing a rotor blade, among other memorable moments. February is the shortest month of the year, but it … Read more

Survivor’s Writers on Giving Cal a Scene-Stealing Counterpart

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Respawn’s Star Wars Jedi games are firmly embedded in the years before the original trilogy, and keep the focus on a core cast of wholly new heroes and villains. It’s what made Star Wars Jedi: Survivor from earlier this year so excellent: the games take advantage of that relative freedom from the timeline and offer … Read more

CIA’s Burns pushes big hostage deal in meeting with Mossad counterpart

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Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave CIA Director William J. Burns arrived in Qatar on Tuesday for secret meetings with Israel’s spy chief and Qatar’s prime minister aimed at brokering an expansive deal between Israel and Hamas, said three people familiar with the visit. Burns is pushing for Hamas and Israel to broaden … Read more

U.S. Defense Chief Asks to Meet With Chinese Counterpart

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Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is making another attempt to meet with his Chinese counterpart this month as overall relations between the world’s biggest economies improve. Austin’s office formally requested that a sitdown be arranged at the upcoming Asean Defense Ministers Meeting-Plus in Jakarta, Indonesia, even though the Chinese position is vacant, a senior U.S. … Read more