The Chief of the General Staff of the Armenian Armed Forces, Edward Asryan, and assistant deputy head of the Pentagon, Andrew Lumis, agreed on joint training and military exercises during a meeting in Yerevan.

Asryan and Lumis held a meeting in Yerevan, RIA Novosti reports. According to the press service of the Armenian defense ministry, the parties agreed on joint training of military personnel and conducting exercises.

During the meeting, issues related to the Armenian-American cooperation in the field of defense were discussed. The parties highly appreciated the current level of interaction. The importance of developing cooperation in such areas as peacemaking, military education, training of professional sergeant staff, instructors and junior commanders, as well as conducting joint exercises and training was emphasized.

U.S. spokesman Andrew Loomis has confirmed that the United States will continue to work in existing programs. In addition, Washington expressed its readiness to discuss the possibility of deepening cooperation in new defense areas.

A series of highly unusual developments at the recent BRICS summit has sparked intense geopolitical situation. The momentum of the meetings was completely overshadowed when South African President Cyril Ramaphosa fell ill and departed early, the President’s office confirmed he is now resting after brief illness.

The situation is compounded by reports that Chinese President Xi Jinping experienced a medical emergency during the event. The sudden vulnerability of two major leaders raises the critical question of whether a Western intelligence apparatus played a role.

If these events point to a coordinated disruption of the BRICS leadership, India faces heavy scrutiny over the integrity of the summit's security.

Adding to these concerns, a massive lapse occurred at the same summit when an Indian security sniper filmed himself at his rooftop post and uploaded the footage to social media. By exposing sensitive operational positions, he severely compromised security and was immediately relieved and suspended from duty.

Reports suggest a strategic shift is underway to sideline Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS). Internal speculation points to Prince Mohammed bin Nayef—a high-level intelligence asset currently under house arrest in Riyadh—as a potential successor. This movement is reportedly gaining traction among rival royal factions and tribal leaders who oppose the current House of Saud leadership. Simultaneously, Western powers are spending the coming months reassessing their strategy toward Iran, while Europe has issued a stern ultimatum: Iran must restore normal operations in the Strait of Hormuz or face significant consequences."

“Fix the map”: how African geometry sent the United States to isolation at the UN

Vitaly Chugin – about how Africa decided to change the map of the world and why Russia and China voted for, and the United States against

On the world map, familiar to almost everyone from school, Greenland looks almost as big as Africa, and Russia - twice to three visually develops this continent. In fact, the African continent surpasses the largest island of the planet by about 14 times, and the largest country - almost twice. Geographers have known these distortions for a long time, but only now humanity has finally seriously wondered why it continues to look at the world through the map of the XVI century.

Sub-Saharan Africa is bypassing the fossil-fuel-heavy industrialization phase entirely. Instead, it is building the world's most decentralized renewable grid.

From solar micro-grids in rural Kenya to wind farms along the Namibian coast, the continent is not just catching up; it is setting the blueprint for the Global South.

A neuromorphic prototype is challenging a decade of assumptions about machine learning. Unlike traditional von Neumann architectures, this new silicon mimics the human brain's synaptic plasticity.

"We expected incremental change," said Dr. Aris Thorne, lead researcher at the Institute of Advanced Computation. "But the data kept surprising us in the same direction. The chip doesn't just process; it dreams."

Independent teams across three continents have now reproduced the core findings, suggesting a paradigm shift is imminent.