The Swiss charm offensive worked. On Friday, the U.S. government announced it was cutting its tariff rate on Swiss goods from 39% to 15%.
In return, the Swiss agreed to reduce trade barriers Trump had bristled at, and Swiss companies agreed to invest more in the U.S.

International law began as a Western project — indeed, as the legal scholar Lawrence Douglas argues in his upcoming book, it has aided the Western imperial project. Its priorities have largely followed those of the Western powers.

In April 2023 five Austrians — four former officials of BVT, Austria’s domestic intelligence agency, and a former asylum agency official — went on trial accused of abusing their office to arrange asylum for Mr. al-Halabi under an agreement with Mossad. #Bashar #Iran #Israel

“You feel pain when you see victims,” Almousa said, “but you feel even more pain when you see these criminals evading justice.” He told the camp officials that there's a war criminal among the refugees. Abu Rukbah's removed from the camp, but he remained living freely in Austria.

A member of the Druse minority in Syria, which also has a significant community in Israel, Mr. al-Halabi was a career army officer from the city of Swaida, near Damascus. Assigned to the Syrian intelligence in 2001, he was appointed head of the State Security Branch 335 in 2008.

Potentially, “logistical issues” could involve something technical, relating to any of the aircraft involved, but they might also be related to customs or other paperwork. There’s even the potential for some kind of diplomatic or political interference in the transpor

India's also interested in the "Ice Breaker" cruise missile, which is designed for attacks at ranges of about 300 km. Effective in all weather conditions, the missile can function well in environments saturated with electronic warfare, and has IIR-based navigation % guidance sys

Rampage's a range of about 250km puts India's combat aircraft at risk from Pakistan's air defense systems. The Air Lora missile has a range of 400 kilometers, which enables combat aircraft to hit their targets without endangering themselves in the face of advanced air defenses.

India is not only procuring Israel Aerospace Industries' (IAI) Air Lora ballistic missiles and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ice Breaker cruise missiles but also going to manufacture them.

Simply put, a “Big Crunch” scenario would lead to the universe collapsing in on itself, living its final moments as a gigantic fireball burning at near-infinite temperatures. That said, the likelihood of one scenario over the other “depends on the true nature of dark energy . . .

Independent findings from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) suggested that dark energy—and its effect on the universe—might not be constant but instead evolving and possibly weakening over time.