June 10, 2023
A drug smuggling operation things went awry in the Pacific over the weekend when toxic gases were accidentally released inside a submarine believed to be used by smugglers to transport drugs, killing two suspects and making two others seriously ill, according to the Colombian Navy. Nearly 3,000 pounds of cocaine worth $87 million were inside
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President Joe Biden and the leaders of Australia and the United Kingdom on Monday announced that Australia would buy nuclear-powered attack submarines from the US in a deal totaling about 342 billion euros to modernize its fleet amid growing concerns over Chinese influence in Indonesia. -Pacific Ocean. “Today we are announcing steps to implement our
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Key points The biggest ace in Australia’s defense arsenal is ready to be unveiled. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is preparing to lay out the terms of a nuclear submarine deal with the US and UK. Defense Secretary Richard Marles said it would be one of Australia’s greatest projects. For four years, Australia will host a
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Australia will spend up to $368 billion on a historic deal with AUKUS that will culminate in homemade nuclear submarines by the 2040s. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in San Diego will announce the largest industrial enterprise in the country’s history, along with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and US President Joe Biden. The program will
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On Monday, the leaders of the US, Australia and the UK are set to unveil plans to provide Australia with nuclear submarines in a major blow to China’s ambitions in the Indo-Pacific. US President Joe Biden, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will approve details of the so-called AUKUS project,
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North Korea conducted a test launch Two “strategic cruise missiles” from a submarine near Gyeongpo Bay off the country’s east coast late Sunday night, according to North Korean state media and the South Korean news agency Yonhap. The drills were held in response to “military maneuvers against the DPRK” by “US imperialists and South Korean
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PLDT Inc. said Thursday it plans to break the petabit level in terms of international bandwidth as it seeks to “deliver a better customer experience” by investing in “more strategic international submarine cables over the next five years.” Mitch Locsin, PLDT’s senior vice president, said the rollout of the new cables is driven by “a
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China has scaled back its involvement in an internet cable project to link Asia to Europe as tensions rise between Washington and Beijing over control of the physical infrastructure that carries the world’s online traffic. China’s two largest telecommunications groups, China Telecom and China Mobile, last year withdrew their combined investment of about 20 percent
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The consortium building what is being touted as the “longest of its kind” submarine cable network in the country, with a $150 million investment, is on track to complete infrastructure deployment in the second quarter. Globus Telecom Inc. President Ernest L. Koo said that the construction of the Philippine Domestic Submarine Cable Network (PDSCN) will
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is directly lobbying members of the US Congress to continue supporting the AUKUS nuclear submarine deal. He says the pact is necessary to bolster Australia’s defenses and that it is a good deal for the US and UK. This followed criticism in America from two senators who warned President Joe Biden
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