As the U.S. remains at war with Iran, the Pentagon’s fiscal year 2027 budget request has raised the prospect of a significant increase in the monthly stipend paid out to troops in regions that put them at risk of taking hostile fire or other job-related dangers. As first reported by Stars and Stripes, Army and…
A group of Republican lawmakers is pressing the Army to loosen longstanding restrictions on firearms at recreation sites run by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, arguing the policy is out of step with other federal land agencies. Led by Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas), the lawmakers on April 17 sent an open letter to Army…
The Pentagon announced on Friday that it had reached deals with some of the technology industry’s biggest companies in an effort to expand the military’s artificial intelligence capabilities and increase the number of firms authorized to be on classified networks. The companies, according to the Defense Department, agreed to allow the Pentagon to employ their…
The Trump administration moved Thursday to reclassify cannabis under federal law, which could significantly expand scientific research into the drug’s medical uses. The change would not legalize the drug at the federal level, but shift cannabis from its current status as a Schedule I substance to Schedule III under the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s controlled…
Shorouk Express TASHKENT, Uzbekistan, July 26. Sherzod Shermatov, Minister of Digital Technologies, and Makhliyo Muksinova, Director of Services Export Development, recently met with Kosei Sakamoto, CEO of MSOL Digital, to discuss the prospects of launching operations in Uzbekistan and expanding further into the CIS market through the country, Trend reports. In the course of the…
Shorouk Express Economy Materials 18 July 2025 16:29 (UTC +04:00) Photo: the Embassy of Turkmenistan in Belgium During a meeting in Brussels, company representatives and the Turkmen ambassador discussed Turkmenistan’s growing role as a reliable transit corridor between Europe and Asia, highlighting the importance of the Turkmenbashi port and the country’s rail infrastructure….
Shorouk Express BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 14. On May 13, the Ministry of Investments, Industry and Trade of the Republic of Uzbekistan hosted a meeting between Deputy Minister Akram Aliyev and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Slovenia to Uzbekistan Alenka Suhadolnik, Trend reports with reference to the ministry. During the meeting, the two…
Shorouk Express BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 21. Azerbaijan’s Baku Metro CJSC held broad-format meetings with delegations from the ADB and AIIB, Trend reports. The meetings, conducted during a joint mission of the two financial institutions, focused on expanding the metro system within the framework of the State Program for the Development of Transport Infrastructure for 2025–2030,…
Featured Podcasts Hard Fork: Tech Stock Shock + Solving the Mystery of OpenAI’s “Blip” + Tinder’s Flirt-Off The future is already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech. Subscribe to Hard Fork. BG2 Pod: Liberation Day, Tariffs, US v…
Shorouk Express BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 25. Dubai-based GEOLOG International aims to expand its cooperation with Azerbaijan’s state oil company (SOCAR), offering advanced mud-logging services, Kirill Partyko, Operations Manager at GEOLOG International, told Trend. “In the past, we have operated in the Azerbaijani market since 2017 and have already collaborated with Umid Babek Operating Company (UBOC)….
