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China's ZTE wants to raise .7 billion to boost 5G development One of China's largest producers of telecom equipment, ZTE, has announced plans to raise around $1.7 billion from a private share placement to fund research and development of 5G networks. The company will issue 381 million A-shares denominated in the Chinese yuan and traded on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges. It will sell them to 10 independent professional or institutional investors in China at 30.21 yuan ($4.40) per share. The price is a little lower than the average trading price over the last three weeks. As of Thursday, ZTE stock was trading at 37.41 yuan per share in Shenzhen. Also on rt.com China’s Huawei to create alternative to Googl...

Pakistan’s ex-president Musharraf appeals to Supreme Court over special tribunal’s guilty verdict in treason case Former military ruler Pervez Musharraf has petitioned Pakistan’s highest judiciary body to overturn his guilty verdict in a treason case conducted by a special court. In his legal filing to the Supreme Court, Musharraf argued that his absence from the special tribunal was due to health reasons and that he had been granted permission to travel abroad to receive medical assistance. He is currently undergoing treatment in Dubai. He also denied running from the law and insisted that the prosecution had failed to prove the treason charges against him. The petition further states that the Pakistani government had failed to meet legal requireme...

Iran is now enriching MORE uranium than before the 2015 nuclear deal – President Rouhani Iran has boosted its nuclear enrichment to levels not even seen before the JCPOA deal, President Hassan Rouhani has proclaimed, shortly after the Islamic Republic accused three European nations of “selling out” to the US. “We are enriching more uranium [than] before the deal was reached ... Pressure has increased on Iran but we continue to progress,” Rouhani said in a televised address on Thursday. Tehran is now bound by “no restrictions on nuclear energy,” Rouhani said, as Iran is “better off in terms of nuclear power.” Under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) – the official name of the 2015 deal – Iran had agreed to enrich uranium only up to 3.67 p...

Roscosmos engineers develop plan to BLIND foreign spy satellites flying over Russian territory Engineers at the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos have developed a plan to block foreign orbital spy satellites from operating in the skies above Russian territory, in what could mark a new era of counterintelligence. The engineers at the Russian Space Systems Corporation, a subsidiary of Roscosmos, propose establishing a database of all known foreign orbital spy satellites to best configure an array of ground-based jamming devices. Once this database is compiled, the agency could then decide the best location and composition for a proposed array of ground-based radio-electronic stations which suppress and prevent data transmission from optical, infrared and...

Europe caved to US ‘bully’ by ‘selling out’ nuclear deal to avoid new Trump tariffs - Zarif France, Britain and Germany have betrayed the 2015 nuclear deal after being threatened with US tariffs, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has claimed, noting that Europe has lost the moral high ground. The three European states accused Tehran of non-compliance with the accord after buckling under pressure from the United Sates, Zarif wrote in a tweet, citing a Washington Post report detailing how the White House allegedly used strong-arm tactics to force the issue. The Iranian diplomat said that the European signatories had “sold out” what was left of the Joint Comprehensive Program of Action (JCPOA) as an act of appeasement. It won't work my fri...

Conor McGregor on UFC 246 test: 'I can read Donald like a children's book' Conor McGregor was respectful and reserved at a drama-free pre-fight press conference ahead of UFC 246, but that didn't stop the Irishman from predicting a KO victory against Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone in Las Vegas on Saturday night. McGregor and Cerrone happily shared the dais together at the Pearl Theater at the Palms hotel and casino ahead of their main event fight on Saturday night. And while McGregor predicted that "blood will be spilled," the Dubliner insisted that "it will not be bad blood." McGregor seemed focused and happy ahead of his long-awaited return to the octagon, but although he clearly respects Cerrone – who holds the UFC records for most fights, most wins, mos...

US military resumes joint ops in Iraq that were halted after Soleimani's killing – reports The US military has reportedly resumed anti-terrorism ops and joint drills with Iraq that had been suspended after Washington assassinated a top Iranian commander in Baghdad. American forces have begun to take part in missions against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) militants in Iraq, US officials have said, adding that the military will soon recommence its training of Iraqi troops. However, the joint US-Iraq operations are not as numerous as they were before, according to reports. The resumption of anti-terrorism operations comes nearly two weeks after a US drone strike killed Quds Force leader Qassem Soleimani. The targeted assassination enraged Baghdad, p...

India needs to go on global anti-terrorism spree like US did after 9/11 – defense chief India’s new chief of defense staff, General Bipin Rawat, has said that the ‘war on terror’ is far from over and its roots need to be analyzed in order to combat terrorism. “Terrorism is here to stay. So long as there are… states that are going to sponsor terrorism and… use terrorists as proxies, make weapons available to them, [provide] funding for them, then we can’t control terrorism,” Gen. Rawat said, as quoted by local media. We have to bring an end to terrorism and that can only happen the way Americans started after the 9/11 terror attack. They said let’s go on a spree… [a] global war on terror. Also on rt.com Tanks, in...