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An analyst says China has deployed inter-continental ballistic missiles near Russia with the aim to be able to reach targets in the US, Canada and Europe By TASS China has deployed inter-continental ballistic missiles near Russia with the aim to be able to reach targets in the United States, Canada and Europe, the president of the Academy of Geopolitical Problems, Doctor of Military Science Konstantin Sivkov, has said. Earlier, the daily Global Times said China had deployed inter-continental ballistic missiles of its own design (DF-41) in northeastern Heilongjiang province bordering Russia. "This is an inter-continental class missile with an effective range of ten thousand to twelve thousand kilometers. The missile’s dead zone is no less than three thousand kilometers. A large territory of Russia, practically the entire Far East and West Siberia are not within the missile’s reach," Sivkov told TASS. Selecting this area for deploying the missiles targeted against Russian terri...

Several private companies, providing security services, have a priority in the Trump’s administration. US President Donald Trump (L) and US Vice President Michael Pence (Photo: New York Times) The last assignments to positions in the security sector, made by US President Donald Trump, confirm a priority of several private companies, providing security services, in his administration, the French Intelligence Online news website reported. Joe Hagin, who was appointed to the post of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operation, the third most important post in the White House, will bring other people from his Command Consulting Group (CCG) there. Hagin already held this office during the two presidential terms of George Bush and should calm down the establishment of the US Republican Party, which is concerned about the impulsive nature of the new US President . A large number of CCG’s consultants, including former deputy head of the Directorate of Operations of the Central Intelligence Agency...

Austrian police has arrested a 12 years old boy, a member of a terrorist cell. Photo: Picture-alliance / APA / picturedesk.com / Barbara Gindl Austrian police has arrested a 12 years old boy, who allegedly is a member of a terrorist cell, the Austria’s Kronen Zeitung newspaper reported. Earlier, the country’s authorities said that the boy is under 14 years old. According to the newspaper, police got information that the boy has ties to a 17-year-old, who plotted a terror attack on behalf of the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group in Vienna and was arrested over the weekend. After this, on Sunday, police raided the home of the boy, who is originally from Macedonia . According to the investigation, the 12 years old boy not only was in contact with the suspected 17-year-old, but also had been radicalized by a Salafist ‘hate preacher’ in Austria. Director of public security in Austria, Konrad Kogler, said that the underage pair were in close contact and noted that “people are looking and ...

According to political analysts, Beijing has deployed the Dongfeng-41 ballistic missiles across China in response to the US missile defense system in the Asia-Pacific region. Photo: AFP 2017 / Stephen Shaver Several Dongfeng-41 (DF-41) nuclear solid-fueled road-mobile intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) have been placed in three locations across China in response to the US missile defense system in the Asia-Pacific region, the RIA Novosti news agency reported, citing a political analyst and lecturer at the Plekhanov Russia University of Economics, Alexander Perendzhiev. “China has deployed new intercontinental ballistic missiles in response to Washington stationing components of its missile defense system in Japan and South Korea,” Perendzhiev told RIA Novosti. “The United States has said that its missile defense system in the Asia-Pacific region is solely aimed against North Korea, but it is in fact designed to counter Russia and China’s nuclear missile potential.” As Chinese...