2-4-19 “One has to be attentive about Huawei as an actor and about the close connections between a commercial actor like Huawei and the Chinese regime," the head of Norway's domestic intelligence unit PST,
"As far as we're concerned, it's about setting up a regulatory framework to protect what could be considered critical infrastructure," Justice Minister
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2-4-19 Currently the intergovernmental forum Arctic Council consists of eight Arctic states, the United States, (Canada, Iceland, Sweden,) Denmark, Russia, Finland and Norway, while China is an observer. The observer status allows China to participate in meetings of the Arctic Council and propose projects. Chinese investments have also focused on key sectors like transportation and minerals….
Finnish media reported that authorities in Kirkenes were interested in turning the city into a key transit hub for China’s arctic shipping route, including with a proposed rail linking the city to Rovaniemi in Finland.
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2-5-19 https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/dont-let-huawei-help-set-up-5g-us-warns-eu-nations/ar-BBTdgRl
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Coahuila, Mexico, officials deployed 49 private buses and dozens of police vehicles to help transport and safeguard more than 1,700 migrants to an unsecured part of the Texas border. The caravan recently departed from Honduras. https://www.breitbart.com/border/2019/02/04/mexican-government-busing-1700-caravan-migrants-to-unsecured-texas-border-area/
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2-5-19 Because a majority of American troop deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq are caused by IEDs, it is critical that knowledge of MRAP vulnerabilities does not fall into enemy hands. But it's already too late. In September 2017 a Houthi-run TV channel broadcast images of Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, the de facto rebel leader, proudly sitting behind the wheel of a captured US-made MRAP in the capital Sanaa, as a crowd chanted "death to America" in the background….
In 2015 Riyadh launched a coalition to oust Iranian-supported Houthi rebels from the country's capital and reinstate the internationally recognized government of President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi. The war split the country in two, and with it came the weapons -- not just guns, but anti-tank missiles, armored vehicles, heat-seeking lasers and artillery -- all flooding into an unruly and complex state.
Since then some of America's "beautiful military equipment," as US President Donald Trump once called it, has been passed on, sold, stolen or abandoned in Yemen's state of chaos….
”Iranian intelligence are assessing US military technology very closely," the source said in an audio interview done from Sanaa. "Listen, there isn't a single American weapon that they don't try to find out its details, what it's made of, how it works."
IEDs are now mass-produced in Yemen by Houthi forces on a scale only previously achieved by ISIS, according to a report published by Conflict Armament Research. The group tracks weapons and their supply chains in conflict zones, and has found IEDs containing Iranian components in Yemen….
At the same time, too many powerful political figures and key armed actors in the region have been prospering greatly from the conflict and, as a result, they lack the incentives to agree to a peace process that would threaten their financial gain. https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2019/02/middleeast/yemen-lost-us-arms/
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