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United States is pushing China to break a longstanding resistance to nuclear arms talks, seeing a «limited opportunity» for early two-way conversations on the superpowers' approach to the issue, a senior Biden administration official said. The renewed U.S. push for nuclear talks comes as U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan met top Chinese officials in Beijing to try and resolve gaping differences on a broad range of issues. «We saw some limited opportunity to open, at least the beginnings of conversation on the subject in the last months, but it's been fits and starts, and I think it will continue to be fits and starts,» said the official, who sought anonymity because the matter is a sensitive one.

Indian Navy is set to commission its second nuclear submarine, with the 112-metre-long INS Arihant to be launched out of Visakhapatnam on Thursday by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh. Top military officials are set to be present at the inaugration of the submarine, with the nuclear-powered machine set to join INS Arihant as part of the country's 'nuclear triad,' strengthening India's ability to fire nukes from the air, land and the sea. Armed with K-15 missiles — that are nuclear-tipped and have a range of 750 kilometres — the 6,000-tonne submarine became 'fully ready' earlier in August, following extensive trials and upgrades.

Telegram boss Pavel Durov under formal investigation on Wednesday in a probe into organized crime on the messaging app, but granted the entrepreneur bail on condition he pays 5 million euros, reports twice a week to police and does not leave French territory. Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said in a statement the judge found there were grounds to formally investigate Durov on all the charges for which he was initially arrested four days ago. They include suspected complicity in running an online platform that allows illicit transactions, images of child sex abuse, drug trafficking and fraud, as well as the refusal to communicate information to authorities, money laundering and providing cryptographic services to criminals.

New Delhi: The Bharatiya Antariksha Station (BAS), India’s own space station currently at its final approval and engineering stages, is now a top priority for the Department of Space (DoS), according to two senior officials. With a launch date of 2028 and operational target of 2035 set by the government, the space station can give India global leverage as the International Space Station seems set to be decommissioned by the end of 2030.

Poland’s budget proposal for 2025 includes record defense spending of 187 billion zlotys or $48.7 billion

Over more than a decade, the founder and CEO of the messaging app Telegram has amassed various different citizenships

The Antique", which has been reportedly called Georgian anti-Vladimir Putin movie, has been stopped from being premiered in Venice parallel section Giornate degli Autori (GdA), as per a Deadline report. The screening of «The Antique» was stopped after Russian and Croatian producers claimed that there are copyright issues pertaining to the film's screenplay, Deadline reported. Georgian producers and MPM International have countered these claims. The movie is reportedly inspired from Georgian nationals' expulsion in 2006, as per the report.

Telegram, was detained in Paris. The analysts believe that the Kremlin may take advantage of the global uproar to target one of the few platforms that has escaped censorship. According to George Barros of the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War think tank, the 39-year-old Durov left the nation in 2014 after he allegedly refused to turn over the encryption keys, and the Kremlin has been attempting to obtain Telegram for years to expand its power to censor and control the content on the app.

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Pavel Durov's Telegram application. Before the app adopted a more assertive stance against content associated with terrorism, especially after the fatal terror attack on London Bridge in 2019, Islamic State groups were using it as their preferred platform. Experts caution that propaganda still thrives there. Some hail the billionaire co-founder of Telegram, the ultra-secure messaging app with over 900 million users, as an anti-authoritarian hero and free speech advocate who bravely faced down Vladimir Putin. Others view him as a dishonest and careless tech magnate who has built a system that allows illegal activity to go unpunished. It appears that French authorities belong to the latter group. Durov was detained on Saturday upon his arrival at Le Bourget airport, which is close to Paris, following his private jet journey from Baku, Azerbaijan. Also Read: Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story: Everything we know so far

France’s arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov over the weekend has made the Russian-born entrepreneur a cause célèbre for free speech, but is his detention or exaltation warranted? Hard to know, which speaks to the problem with Europe’s censorship regime. Conservatives in the U.S. are rallying around Mr.

French prosecutors are expected to charge or release the CEO of the popular messaging app Telegram, Pavel Durov, after his police custody order expires on Wednesday

Ukraine has begged its allies for permission to strike Russian territory with Western-supplied long-range missiles, but has been mostly rebuffed.Now, Kyiv says it has its own weapon that’s just as good.The Palianytsia was created by Ukraine’s burgeoning defence industry to finally provide “answers” to waves of Russian bombings and missile strikes, Defense Minister Rustem Umerov promised Monday.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called it “a new class” of weapon, and released a video suggesting it can strike hundreds of kilometres inside Russia.Those comments came after Russian missiles and drones targeted Ukraine’s electrical infrastructure in the largest such attack in weeks. A second barrage on Tuesday killed at least five people.“Ukraine is preparing its response.

French prosecutors say an investigative judge has extended police custody for the Telegram CEO, Pavel Durov

A Pennsylvania ammunition plant that makes a key artillery shell in Ukraine’s fight against Russia has managed to boost production by 50% to meet surging demand, with more capacity set to come on line

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Ukraine says it has a new homegrown long-range weapon that will allow it to strike deep into Russia without asking permission from allies

French broadcast media reports say the founder and CEO of the popular messaging service Telegram has been detained at a Paris airport

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China has expressed its opposition to the latest U.S. sanctions on Chinese companies over their alleged ties to Russia’s war in Ukraine, saying it would adopt necessary measures to safeguard the rights and interests of the country’s businesses

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