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China’s liquid-fueled intercontinental strategic nuclear missiles DongFeng-5C, which have a global strike range, pass through Tian’anmen Square during the V-Day military parade on September 3, 2025 in Beijing, China.China News Service | China News Service | Getty ImagesBEIJING — China plans to increase its defense spending by 7% this year, the slowest rise in its annual military expenditure since 2021, according to a budget plan by the Ministry of Finance released Thursday.The proposal comes as conflict in the Middle East escalates and tensions over Taiwan persist, amid a broader rise in global geopolitical fault lines.For the last three years, China…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Fans attending the Texas Rangers’ home opening series against the Cincinnati Reds in early April will get their first look at the newly installed, permanent fixture in left field.Billed as a tribute to the MLB franchise’s namesake, the Rangers unveiled the “One Riot, One Ranger” statue along the left-field concourse at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas, Monday.In 2020, the statue was removed from Dallas Love Field amid heightened racial tensions and the group’s complicated history tied to race relations.The book “Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A California elementary school filed a police report against a registered sex offender campaigning for a city council seat after he held a news conference near a school last week while children were on the property. Rene Campos, 41, who is running in the Fresno City Council‘s District 7 race, spoke Friday outside a church in the downtown area located mere feet away from Big Picture Elementary School, a public charter school. In a statement, Stephanie Hilton, the school’s executive director, and Diana Gonzalez, its superintendent, criticized Campos over the news conference, calling it…

Federal Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon says the CEO of OpenAI has agreed to take several actions to bolster safety, including providing a report outlining the new systems the firm is developing to identify high-risk offenders and policy violators. A statement from Solomon following his meeting Wednesday with Sam Altman says the minister will also ask the Canadian AI Safety Institute to examine the company’s model and provide expert technical advice to his office.The meeting follows the revelation that OpenAI banned the mass shooter in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., from using its ChatGPT chatbot last June due to worrisome interactions but did not alert law…

Radio icon Alan Jones is scheduled to face trial later this year, but a court has been told there could be a spanner in the works.

Beyond GDP, the government is also aiming to create over 12 million new urban jobs – keeping its urban unemployment rate at around 5.5 per cent.To support those goals, Beijing signalled a continuation of its expansionary fiscal stance.The deficit-to-GDP ratio is set at 4 per cent, unchanged from 2025 – with general public budget expenditure projected to exceed 30 trillion yuan for the first time – an increase of about 1.27 trillion yuan from last year.Domestic consumption is a central plank of that spending push.Li said Beijing’s priority was to make “coordinated efforts to boost consumption and expand investment”.The government…

Kim Jong Un supervised the launch of sea-to-surface ‘strategic cruise missiles’ from country’s new naval destroyer.Listen to this article | 3 minsinfoPublished On 5 Mar 20265 Mar 2026Click here to share on social mediashare2Shareplus2googleAdd Al Jazeera on GoogleinfoNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Un has overseen the test-firing of “strategic cruise missiles” from a new 5,000-tonne naval destroyer before the vessel’s official commissioning, according to state media.Kim supervised the launch of sea-to-surface missiles from the destroyer Choe Hyon on Wednesday, assessing the test as a “core” element of the new warship’s capabilities, which he described as a “new symbol of sea defence” for…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Department of Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem faced heat from Republican senators during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday, including criticism about her leadership during the Trump administration’s deportation surge.One GOP senator compared her past animal killings to decisions she has made as DHS secretary.Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., and Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., both got into testy exchanges with Noem Tuesday during a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) oversight hearing with lawmakers.Tillis likened Noem’s decisions as a farmer and dog owner to what he described as Noem’s disastrous leadership amid…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: A Wisconsin man driving a stolen vehicle was killed Wednesday after he fled through a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint and led authorities on a vehicle chase and shootout in Texas.The incident happened at around 10:30 a.m. at the Sierra Blanca checkpoint in the Big Bend Sector between El Paso and Van Horn, a remote area. James Douglas McMillan, 33, of Greenfield, Wis., took off from the checkpoint after a Border Patrol drug K-9 alerted to the vehicle and agents directed McMillan to pull over for a secondary search, the Texas…

Nearly 60 new businesses opened in Edmonton’s Chinatown area in the past year, according to advocates, but concerns about safety and cleanliness persist. The City of Edmonton is exploring three new initiatives aimed at improving Chinatown, after a city council committee on Wednesday approved further study into a community cleanup group, possible changes to the 97 Street bridge and housing incentives for the Quarters area.The measures were discussed during the annual update on the city’s Chinatown strategy, where councillors and community members acknowledged recent gains while stressing that more work is needed.Progress and persistent problemsCommunity groups reported a surge in…