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 On Saturday, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced plans on Saturday to station nuclear weapons in neighboring Belarus, sending a warning to NATO over its support to Ukraine and escalating stand off with West. While, Putin said the move would not violate nuclear non-proliferation promises, it is one of Russia's pronounced nuclear signals since the start of the war. He also added that this move was triggered by Britain's decisions this past week to provide Ukraine   with armor-piercing rounds containing depleted uranium. In addition, Russia is presenting the deployment not just as a decision made by both countries,, but as a response to long-standing requests by Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko. This is Russia's tried-and-tested way of showing respect for its ally, previously cited when dispatching Russian troops to Belarus for training exercises both last February- ahead of the invasion - and in October. Tactical nuclear weapons are intended  for use on the ...

 On March 5, China announced a 7.2% increase in its defense budget for the coming year, up slightly from last year 7.1% rate of increase. This is the eighth consecutive year of single-digit percentage point increase. The 2023 figure was given as 1.55 trillion Yuan($224 billion), which roughly doubles from 2013. In his report, Premier Li Keqiang said that over the past year, "We remained committed to the party's absolute leadership over the people's armed forces". "The people's armed forces intensified efforts to enhance their political loyalty, to strengthen themselves through reform, scientific and technological advances, and personnel training, and to practice law-based governance", Li said. As China is aiming to achieve the centenary goals of basically realize the modernization of national defense and the armed forces by 2035 and fully build the armed   forces into world-class forces by the mid-21st century on the 100th anniversary of the founding of...

  When the Federal Reserve raised the interest rate by 25 basis points on Wednesday. This indicates that the U.S. central bank will prioritize the fight against inflation over the turmoil in the banking sector. This actions of the Federal Reserve will likely drive the decisions of central banks around the world, as they seek to strike a delicate balance among growth, inflation and currency volatility.  This decisions comes after it is nearly two weeks of turmoil in the finance industry. This is ninth consecutive increase in one year since the central bank began the current rate-raising cycle to combat rising prices. Over the last 12-months, inflation spiked to a 40-year high. After that, the Bank of England also raised interest rates by a quarter of percentage point, it is their eleventh consecutive increase since December 2021. What does it indicates? "The bank problems are probably making a lot of people think twice", said Diana Furchtgott-Roth, an economics professor at G...

 On March 17, the International Criminal Court(ICC) issued "warrants of arrest warrant of two individuals : Mr. Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and Ms. Maria Alekseyevna Lvova- Bevola". Maria is the commissioner for Children's Right in the office of the President of the Russian Federation. What is the ICC? ICC is as the International Criminal Court and its headquarters is in Hague, Netherlands, is an independent judicial body that   Countries who are the signatory of the Rome Statute began functioning on July 1, 2002, when its founding and governing document, the Rome  Statute, came into force. It was established to prosecute the most heinous offences where a country's own legal machinery failed to act- like in Rwanda and erstwhile Yugoslavia. It is the first and only permanent international court with jurisdiction to prosecute individuals for the international crimes of genocide, crime against humanity, war crimes and the crime of agression.  Why have the warrant...