With Trump demanding more ships, the Navy is proposing the biggest shipbuilding boom since the end of the Cold War to meet “threats” from Russia and China. The Navy’s 355-ship proposal is even larger than what Trump had promoted on the campaign trail, providing a boost to shipyards that have struggled because budget caps. Source FoxNews
Libya rejects a European Union’s plan to establish migrant centers there to stop asylum seekers arriving in western Europe and it will not be swayed by financial inducements, Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj said. Source: Reuters
The first families of Boers, descendants of Dutch settlers in South Africa, could soon be moving to Russia to escape rising violence against farmers. Some 15,000 Boers want to leave South Africa and become farmers in Russia. Source: RT
The commission urged citizens, businesses and member states to take action on preparing for 30 March 2019 now, highlighting the rising concerns of a no-deal exit in European capitals on the day the new UK Brexit secretary Dominic Raab arrived in Brussels for fresh talks. Source: EUobserver
