A selection of news stories that happened overnight, March 1, 2023. Read more at straitstimes.com.
The Biden administration approved more than US$23 billion worth of licences for companies to ship US goods and technology to blacklisted Chinese companies in the first quarter of 2022, a Republican lawmaker said on Tuesday.
“How does this align with your statement that ‘we’re doing everything within power to prevent sensitive US technologies from getting in the hands of military, intelligence services or other parties?”Iran could make enough fissile for one nuclear bomb in “about 12 days,” a top US Defence Department official said on Tuesday, down from the estimated one year it would have taken while the 2015 Iran nuclear deal was in effect.
Since launching the invasion of Ukraine a year ago, Mr Putin has said he wants to protect Russia from what he calls a degenerate West that he alleges is trying to destroy the country.
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