‘Danger & restraint’: Neither India nor Pakistan want to start nuclear war, former leaders insist

Despite tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbors having reached dangerous levels following the deadly blast in Kashmir, a war between India and Pakistan is highly unlikely, former leaders of the two states have stressed. India remains committed to a no-first-use policy, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Sunday, calling his country a “reluctant nuclear weapon state” whose…

Japan and USA Remain Undefeated at WBSC Junior Women’s World Championship; Face Off on Friday Night

OKLAHOMA CITY — The U.S. and Japan both secured a medal finish as both teams remain undefeated while advancing in the Championship bracket at the 2015 World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) Junior Women’s World Championship (JWWC) in Oklahoma City, Okla.  New Zealand and Puerto Rico also advanced in the Championship division while only six teams remain…

US report drops references to ‘occupation’ of Palestine, now it’s ‘Israeli-controlled’

In the latest annual global human rights report, the US has stopped using the term “occupied” when talking about areas of Palestine controlled by Israel, including the Golan Heights, the West Bank and Gaza. In a report by the State Department intended to detail data regarding human rights around the globe in 2018, the US…

Awesome Games Done Quick 2019 Speedrun Marathon Raises $2.39 Million for Charity

Awesome Games Done Quick, a charitable annual speedrunning marathon, closed its 2019 event raising a total of $2,394,668 for Prevent Cancer Foundation. The event, held in Rockville, Maryland from January 6–13, saw over 2,200 attendees and was broadcast on Twitch with 219,240 peak concurrent viewers. With this latest haul, Games Done Quick has raised over $19…

Softball Leads List of 26 Proposed New Sports for 2020 Tokyo Olympics

TOKYO — Leading the list of 26 proposed events for inclusion at the Tokyo 202 Olympic Games by International Olympic Committee (IOC)-recognized Federations is baseball and softball, the sports widely favored to be added due to their huge popularity in host nation which were only dropped from the program after the Beijing 2008 Games. This…

Pentagon relaunches Cold War-era Assault Breaker program to fend off Russia & China – report

The Pentagon has dusted off a Cold war era concept to deal with large attacking forces, revamping it to fight Russia and China. While all the technologies are in place, the new-look program will come to fruition only in 10 years. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is resurrecting the decades-old Assault Breaker concept,…