New York, March 31 (IANS) A broker for US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth explored a multimillion-dollar investment in defence stocks just weeks before a US-Israel strike on Iran.The broker at Morgan Stanley approached BlackRock in February about allocating funds into a defence-focused ETF tied to contractors like Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman. Such companies typically benefit from rising military spending amid geopolitical tensions and military activity, Xinhua news agency reported quotin…
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Colombo, March 13 (IANS) The bodies of 84 identified Iranian sailors killed in the March 4 US attack on the warship IRIS Dena off Sri Lanka’s coast were repatriated to Iran, Sri Lanka’s Defence Ministry said Friday. The bodies are being transported to Iran via a special flight which departed Friday afternoon from Mattala International Airport in the country’s Southern Province.On March 11, Galle Chief Magistrate Sameera Dodangoda ordered that the bodies, which had been kept in two mobile cold st…
Washington, March 10 (IANS) US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday warned Iran against disrupting traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, saying President Donald Trump was prepared to respond with overwhelming force if Tehran tried to choke one of the world’s most sensitive energy routes.The warning came as Hegseth and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Dan Caine offered a fresh battlefield update on ‘Operation Epic Fury’ and sought to show that the US campaign remained tightly focused on Iran…
Mumbai, Feb 24 (IANS) US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has reportedly summoned AI firm Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to the Pentagon for “a high‑stakes”, “tense” meeting over the military’s use of the company’s Claude AI model, according to reports, as Elon Musk slammed the AI company over allegedly stealing training data.The report from Axios said, citing an anonymous senior defence official, that the meeting was “not a friendly” one as Anthropic did not remove restrictions on their tec…