The Cuban and US governments have both denied a media report saying Havana and Beijing agreed to establish a Chinese electronic eavesdropping facility in Cuba, some 160 kilometers south of Florida. A spy base with such proximity to several US military bases in the southeastern region of the country would have allowed Beijing to collect electronic communications and monitor ship traffic. The report about this secretive spying base was published in the Wall Street Journal. The report mentioned that the agreement was also reached in-principle in exchange for "several billion dollars" for the cash-strapped Latin American country. Quoting unnamed US officials familiar with “highly classified intelligence”, the article said the proposed base would allow China to conduct “signals intelligence”, a kind of espionage that would allow it to intercept emails, phone calls and other data from the US. The Journal reported the facility would allow Beijing to gather electronic communications from the southeastern US, which houses many US military bases, as well as monitor ship traffic. The US Central Command headquarters is based in Tampa. Fort Liberty, formerly Fort Bragg, the largest US military base, is in North Carolina.
#Cubaspybase #Wallstreetjournal #Chinaspybasecuba
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The Congress party has clarified that Sachin Pilot will not be floating a separate political party amid a tussle with Ashok Ghelot.
#sachinpilot #ashokghelot #rajasthan
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Controversies never seem to end for the film ‘Adipurush’. In the latest, Kriti Sanon, Prabhas and director Om Raut visited the Tirupati temple to seek blessings ahead of their film’s release. And a video of the actress and Raut has surfaced on social media which showed the two exchanging a peck on the cheeks before leaving the temple premises. Priest and politicians have reacted to the same.Watch the video to know the details.
#Adipurush #KiritiSanon #OmRaut
Jan Shatabdi Express derails near Chennai Central station, none injured; Manipur violence: IED hurled at gate of Manipur BJP MLA Soraisam Kebi's residence; Cyclone Biparjoy: Very severe cyclonic storm to intensify further, tweets IMD; Odisha Train Accident: Fire in another train Durg-Puri Express, no casualties.
#OdishaTrainAccident #JanShatabdiExpress #TrainAccident
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After 2016, El Nino is back in the Pacific Ocean, The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), USA, declared on Thursday that the weather-changing El Nino that packs the power to blunt the Atlantic hurricane season has begun. El Nino, which in Spanish means little boy, is a climate pattern that develops along the equatorial Pacific Ocean after an interval of a few years ranging between 2 and 7 years. Globally, El Nino has been often associated with severe heatwaves, floods and droughts in the past. Sea surface temperatures across the equatorial Pacific Ocean have risen 0.5C (0.9F) above normal and wind patterns have changed to the point where El Nino criteria have been met, the US Climate Prediction Center said Thursday.
#ElNino #ElNinoArrives #NOAA
Dozens of students of a Srinagar girls’ school protested Thursday after being allegedly asked by the principal not to enter the premises wearing “Abayas”.. IndiaTimes
Jammu & Kashmir governor Manoj Sinha flagged off SpiceJet’s first Haj flight from Srinagar. The airline will operate special flights from Aurangabad,.. IndiaTimes
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday conducted a fresh round of searches at three locations in Srinagar and Budgam districts of Kashmir, in.. IndiaTimes
Armed forces on Tuesday killed the terrorist involved in the brutal killing of a Kashmiri Pandit guard in the valley.
#Kashmir #KashmiriPandit #ArmedForces
On Friday, global finance leaders will tally the economic damage from Russia's war in Ukraine as they meet on the conflict's first anniversary. The meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bank..
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with China’s top diplomat Wang Yi on Saturday, in the first face-to-face between senior US and Chinese officials since the US military shot down a suspected..