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Japan is poised to emerge as a military industrial heavyweight to help the United States counteract China, President Joe Biden’s administration believes. “Our military industrial capabilities are not equal to the challenges and commitments we have,” Ambassador Rahm Emanuel, the lead U.S. envoy to Japan, said Monday at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

The United States Department of Commerce Monday proposed investing as much as $6.6 billion to fund a third Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC) fab in Arizona. The funding would arrive by way of the CHIPS and Science Act, in a bid to foster more domestic semiconductor production. The move represents a broader push to bring more manufacturing to the U.S., but unspoken in the fanfare around today’s announcement is the potential escalation of tensions with China.

Two dozen soldiers departed from Berlin on Monday morning to set up the first permanent German army bases on foreign soil since the Second World War.

Seventy-nine years after he was executed by the Nazis, Wilhelmus Cornelis Meere was finally honoured Thursday for his leadership in the Dutch Resistance.

Some people say the situation today feels like the world did in the 1930s, but with the benefit of hindsight, we have no excuse to repeat the mistakes of our forefathers.

On April 7, 1947, while one of the worst floods in Dearborn history knocked out power to his estate, automobile pioneer Henry Ford died at the age of 83.

Today marks six months since the October 7 attack, where Hamas militants entered Israel and killed more than 1100 people and took 250 more hostage, approximately 130 are still in captivity.

The Shipbuilders: Drama, starring Clive Brook. The Shipbuilders airs on Talking Pictures TV at 6:00 AM, Sunday 7 April. Drama, starring Clive Brook

(Season 1 Episode 2 of 2): Part two of two. Sue travels to the ancient city of Kyoto to spend time with geishas. Japan with Sue Perkins airs on BBC Two HD at 5:25 PM, Sunday 7 April. Part two of two. Sue travels to the ancient city of Kyoto to spend time with geishas

Rishi Sunak has vowed to continue to stand by Israel as the UK marks six months since the October 7 Hamas attacks.