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TOKYO (AP) — Asian benchmarks dove Tuesday, as worries grew about the ripple effects from President Donald Trump’s tariffs on regional economies and companies. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 dove 1.7% in morning trading to 36,382.57. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 lost 0.9% to 7,888.50. South Korea’s Kospi declined 1.5% to 2,532.29. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng slipped 0.9% to 23,568.83, while the Shanghai Composite lost 0.4% to 3,352.01. “Heightened anxiety surrounds both existing and incoming U.S. tariffs, along with retaliatory measures from trading partners, and China’s newly effective tariffs will continue to weigh on equities,” said Anderson Alves, a trader at ActivTrades.Also Tuesday,…

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WASHINGTON — Intelligence professionals at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency are maintaining their focus on mission objectives despite ongoing staff reductions, the agency’s director said March 10.“There is nothing like mission to help people stay focused no matter what else is going on,” Vice Adm. Frank Whitworth told attendees at the Satellite 2025 conference in Washington. “That said, they’re humans, they have stresses.”The remarks come as federal intelligence and defense agencies navigate a period of significant transition and uncertainty as the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) takes action to reduce the federal workforce. Defense and space industry executives who…

Reason to trust Strict editorial policy that focuses on accuracy, relevance, and impartiality Created by industry experts and meticulously reviewed The highest standards in reporting and publishing Strict editorial policy that focuses on accuracy, relevance, and impartiality Morbi pretium leo et nisl aliquam mollis. Quisque arcu lorem, ultricies quis pellentesque nec, ullamcorper eu odio. Este artículo también está disponible en español. Bitcoin has continued its downward trend despite briefly surging to $94,000 last week, a move that had initially fueled investor optimism. Since hitting that level, the cryptocurrency has steadily declined, now trading below $80,000 as of today. While the…

Your support helps us to tell the storyFrom reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.The…

WASHINGTON – “Most folks don’t understand cyber,” Nicholas Goddard, Navy Cyber Defense Operations Command operations director, said March 10 during a panel on evolving threats at the Satellite 2025 conference.Goddard’s organization, charged with safeguarding the Navy’s classified and unclassified infrastructure from the seabed to geosynchronous orbit, “sees anywhere from 8.4 to 8.6 billion events every 24 hours,” Goddard said. “We’re getting better at classifying and characterizing the threat. But sharing that information with the commercial industry is a problem.”The U.S. military discloses threat information to companies through the Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center in Colorado Springs and the Commercial…

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TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s governing Liberal Party appeared poised for a historic election defeat this year. Then Donald Trump declared economic war and threatened to annex the entire country as a 51st state. Now the Canadian Liberals and their new prime minister could come out on top.Then there’s Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, facing a groundswell of visible support at home for her approach to Trump’s tariff threats. There’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who visited the White House last month and was knocked on his heels, then went back to Europe to receive what many offered as a hero’s welcome. Even Emmanuel Macron’s…

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WASHINGTON — Merging satellite operators SES and Intelsat independently invested in direct-to-device venture Lynk Global without knowing about the other’s decision.“This really is coincidental,” Intelsat CEO David Wajsgras told SpaceNews March 10, hours after SES announced its strategic partnership with Lynk Global at the Satellite Conference here.“We were completely independent of SES, and we had our own analysis and our own logic,” Wajsgras said. “The two companies are going through integration planning, but there’s certain things that we cannot talk about and we don’t talk about.”Neither company has disclosed how much they invested in Lynk Global’s ongoing Series B round,…