China’s military has dispatched a pair of navy ships to take part in joint drills with Singapore’s navy and join in a regional maritime security exhibition. The exercises starting Friday in the Southeast Asian city state come amid China’s growing presence in the South China Sea, which it claims sovereignty over virtually in its entirety. Concerns are especially pronounced in the U.S., which on Wednesday joined with forces from the Philippines in major exercises in Philippine waters facing the South China Sea that are likely to anger China.
A Russian army officer has been arrested for allegedly stealing the engines out of T-90 battle tanks.
Mahnoor Euceph, a Pakistani American woman, shared additional details regarding a racist interaction on a train to Milan, Italy. The post Pakistani American woman exposes three racist Italian women she encounters, and one of them reaches out: ‘I assure you that we repudiate racism just as much as you do’ appeared first on In The Know.You heard about the craze over the chicken bag, now it’s the time for the duck bag.
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