A Chinese national employed by a U.S. telecommunications company was charged Friday with conspiracy for disrupting online protests marking the 1989 massacre of Chinese pro-democracy protesters, the FBI said in a statement.
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Top Pentagon officials on Friday pushed back on reports that the Defense Department had fully halted meetings with President-elect Joseph R. Biden’s transition team, stressing that work will continue after a mutually agreed-upon break for the holidays. But Mr. Biden’s team said shortly afterward that there was no such agreement.
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Iran has begun construction on a site at its underground nuclear facility at Fordo amid tensions with the U.S. over its atomic program, satellite photos obtained Friday by The Associated Press show.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday expressed confidence that a massive natural gas pipeline to Germany will be completed despite the determined opposition of the Trump administration, telling a national audience in his annual holiday press conference that the Nord Stream 2 project is nearly completed.
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The massive hack of federal government computer networks tied this week to SolarWinds was broader than previously thought, officials acknowledged Thursday.
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The Navy says it is prepared to push back against an increasingly bellicose China even during day-to-day operations short of full-scale war.
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Bulgaria's foreign ministry said on Friday that a Russian diplomat had 72 hours to leave the country after prosecutors accused him of spying and gathering military information including the number of U.S. troops deployed to Bulgaria for military drills.
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