Beijing Criticizes US Report on China's Military Development and other top stories.

• Beijing Criticizes US Report on China's Military Development

  

  China's defense ministry expressed its "strong dissatisfaction" with the United States, criticizing an annual report by the U.S. Department of Defense as misrepresenting the country's military development. The Defense Department report to the U.S. Congress, issued Friday, said that China was focused on developing and weaponizing the islands it has built in the disputed waters of the South China Sea so it will have greater control over the maritime region without resorting to armed conflict. On ..

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• US officials concerned about possible coup in Venezuela

  

  Venezuela is descending into a deepening crisis that could end in violence, including the possibility of a coup against that country’s embattled leftist government, senior U.S. intelligence officials said Friday. There is a “potential for real violence,” one of two officials said in a briefing with a small group of reporters. “It’s hard for me to see how this ends easily.” The officials, who have extensive experience in the region, said that they and others in the intelligence community increas..

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• Do we have the right to be proud of the London mayor? - Al

  

  In his book Human, All Too Human, Friedrich Nietzsche advises us that there’s nothing we must be aware of more than feeling of pride because it destroys everything.Dozens of articles and hundreds of posts on twitter expressed pride over Sadiq Khan’s victory as the mayor for British capital, London. Writers of these articles and posts actually live in Muslim communities and some of them were British of Pakistani origin. Khan comes from a humble background, which represents the majority in these ..

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• Johnson compares EU's aims to Hitler's

  

  Image copyright Getty Images Boris Johnson has compared the EU's aims to Hitler's, saying both involved the intention to unify Europe under a single "authority". The pro-Brexit Tory MP said both the Nazi leader and Napoleon had failed at unification and the EU was "an attempt to do this by different methods".Labour MP Yvette Cooper, from the Remain campaign, accused the ex-London Mayor of playing "nasty, nasty games".Meanwhile, UKIP leader Nigel Farage has backed Mr Johnson to be the next P..

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