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How China’s weapons transfers to Iran have evolved over decades
New York Times, Published on 15/04/2026
» NEW YORK — For much of the past two decades, China has maintained a delicate balance in its military relationship with Iran, offering often indirect assistance instead of arms sales.
‘It’s all about Trump’s tariffs’: Asia flocks to US trade official
New York Times, Published on 16/05/2025
» JEJU — The gathering of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) trade ministers is usually a staid meeting, but this year it offered more intrigue and urgency as countries throughout the region scrambled to engage the United States in talks before a 90-day pause on punishing tariffs expires in July.
EU agrees on new sanctions against Russia
New York Times, Published on 17/12/2022
» BRUSSELS: The European Union (EU) on Friday approved a new round of sanctions against Russia, including banning drone exports to the country, as the bloc strives to maintain a united front and keep up financial pressure on Moscow over the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine.
Viktor Bout’s release is hailed in Russia as a Kremlin victory
New York Times, Published on 10/12/2022
» In the West, he is known as a convicted illicit arms trafficker, "the merchant of death" who helped fuel wars around the world. But in Russia, Viktor Bout was welcomed home this week as something of a hero or at least an innocent victim of American politics.
She's a doctor. He was a limo driver. They pitched a $30m arms deal
New York Times, Published on 06/10/2022
» NEW YORK: After falling out with his partner at a limousine company in the St. Louis suburbs, Martin Zlatev recently sought a lucrative new business opportunity: selling $30 million worth of rockets, grenade launchers and ammunition to the Ukrainian military.
Food export bans in Asia prompt fears of more protectionism
New York Times, Published on 11/06/2022
» As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine helped push global agricultural prices to soaring heights, some Asian governments restricted the export of products they viewed as essential to domestic food security.
Global brands find it hard to untangle themselves from Xinjiang cotton
New York Times, Published on 06/04/2021
» Faced with accusations that it was profiting from the forced labour of Uyghur people in the Chinese territory of Xinjiang, the H&M Group — the world’s second-largest clothing retailer — promised last year to stop buying cotton from the region.
As 737 Max crisis festers, Boeing fires its leader
New York Times, Published on 24/12/2019
» NEW YORK: Boeing said on Monday that it had fired its chief executive, Dennis A. Muilenburg, who was unable to stabilise the company after two crashes involving its best-selling 737 Max plane killed 346 people and set off the worst crisis in the manufacturing giant’s 103-year history.
Super-typhoon Mangkhut aims at Philippines
New York Times, Published on 14/09/2018
» HONG KONG: The Philippines braced early Friday for the onslaught of Super-Typhoon Mangkhut, whose 240kph (150 mph) winds were on a path for a direct hit at the country's largest and most populous island.
US bikers divided over Trump's war with Harley-Davidson
New York Times, Published on 13/08/2018
» STURGIS, South Dakota: Gary Rathbun rumbled into town to attend the United States' pre-eminent gathering of motorcycle enthusiasts atop his Harley-Davidson, a 2009 Ultra Classic that brought him 800 miles from Idaho. It is the 40th Harley he has owned. It will also likely be his last.