Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday that Russian forces attacked Ukraine’s energy and power infrastructure with hundreds of drones and missiles, including Iranian-made weapons.
Officials are investigating why a concrete bridge collapsed in eastern Germany early Wednesday, disrupting a major traffic artery in Dresden.
Kamala Harris zig-zagged and evaded when asked to describe her border policy during her brief interview with CNN.
French government making clear it believes the “ultra-left” is responsible for taking out the railway lines leading into Paris last week.
French railway firm SNCF said it has made progress in restoring high-speed train services after acts of sabotage disrupted three major lines.
The Rapidan dam in Blue Earth County, Minnesota, partially failed Monday as a result of heavy rain and intense flooding.
President Joe Biden’s “floating pier” for Gaza is a dismal failure, and a symbol of how “infrastructure” has fared under his presidency.
Officials say a powerful solar storm will hit Earth on Friday and its arrival could cause infrastructure problems.
By taking out the power, the Kremlin aims to rob Ukrainian manufacturing of its energy, especially military plants, and crush public morale.
FBI director Chris Wray said at a security conference on Thursday that China’s legion of state-sponsored hackers “considers every sector that makes our society run as fair game in its bid to dominate on the world stage.”
A delegation from Ukraine arrived in Taiwan on Sunday, hoping to secure assistance from Taiwanese firms to rebuild in the aftermath of the Russian invasion.
Russia appears to be stepping up its campaign to deprive Ukraine of electricity, totally destroying a large power plant.
President Joe Biden’s former chief of staff Ron Klain complained during a recent event that the president was too focused on taking victory laps on infrastructure projects and not doing enough to address voters’ immediate concerns, such as the price of groceries, according to a report.
The Lowy Institute of Australia published a report on Wednesday that found China’s funding for its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects in Southeast Asia is about $50 billion short of its commitments, apparently due to a variety of causes, from political instability in BRI countries to reduced demand for fossil fuel projects.
A body has been discovered in the collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge as the U.S. Coast Guard has called off the search for the six missing construction workers.
Chinese Communist Party-backed hackers are targeting U.S. infrastructure, like water treatment plants and electrical grids, to “wreak havoc.”
The Washington Post on Monday reported that concerns about China’s growing cyber-warfare assault on U.S. infrastructure systems are justified, as hackers linked to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) have “burrowed into the computer systems of about two dozen critical entities over the past year.”
President Joe Biden’s administration has awarded $6 billion in federal infrastructure spending to California for two high-speed rail projects — one, a failing public-sector effort by the state; the other, a private rail line from Southern California to Las Vegas.
A possible cyberattack knocked out phone lines to police and fire departments in Israel for over an hour on Monday night.
The municipal water authority of the Pennsylvania town of Aliquippa announced on Saturday that one of its water stations was hacked by an Iran-backed criminal group called the “Cyber Av3ngers.”
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping on Monday promoted his “Beautiful China” initiative at a Chinese Communist Party Central Committee meeting, urging the party to build a “modern socialist country in all respects” by 2035.
The UK Guardian noted on Monday that China has become the “world’s biggest debt collector” thanks to the massive loans poor nations took out from Chinese banks to finance Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) infrastructure projects.
President Joe Biden pledged $16 billion in federal money to improve Amtrak in the nation’s Northeast Corridor.
The government of Greece is planning to put illegal migrants to work on public works projects to update the nation’s infrastructure.
Libya’s eastern government said that China will take the lead in rebuilding the flood-ravaged city of Derna.
During an interview with Bloomberg on Friday, Atlanta Federal Reserve President Raphael Bostic stated that unspent stimulus on things like infrastructure will put upward pressure on inflation, but if it’s spent on things that increase productivity, it will be “much
China acquires stake in a container terminal in Hamburg, one of the most important ports in Europe, despite some warning of the dangers.
German authorities are reportedly rethinking a plan to sell a large stake in its largest port to a company owned by the Chinese government.
A Lower Manhattan multi-storey parking garage collapsed, with decks of cars crashing down killing one and injuring four others.
China’s state-run Global Times on Monday mocked the Biden administration for trying to compete with China for the affections of Africa by spending a fraction of the money Beijing has invested in the continent.
During an interview with Bloomberg on Monday, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon stated that he believes there is a “good chance” that inflation will not decline enough by the fourth quarter, and things like infrastructure spending, the Inflation Reduction Act, bringing
China’s state-run Global Times on Tuesday claimed the Ohio toxic train derailment and factory explosion were evidence of America’s “crumbling infrastructure,” “declining governance capabilities,” and the inferiority of representative republican government.
Reform UK called for an end to foreign ownership of Britain’s utility firms to prevent the taxpayer from being continuing to be “ripped off”.
Former President Donald J. Trump unveiled his plans to prevent Chinese companies from buying up critical components, or “the crown jewels,” of the American economy in his latest campaign platform video released Wednesday
Five Cuban families residing in a crumbling building in Old Havana sent a letter to the news website Cibercuba expressing fear that their derelict building, which suffered a partial collapse in October that claimed the life of a five-year-old, will face another collapse that will end their lives.
Facing reverses on the frontline, Russian forces are intensifying strategic strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure, with a renewed bombardment of Kyiv (Kiev) cutting off power and water in the capital.
The UK government’s Net Zero green agenda plans risk exposing the country to “critical risk”, a report drafted by MPs has claimed.
Two fibre optic cables have been severed in the last week, disrupting phone networks and internet data, fuelling speculation of sabotage.
Ukrainian Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko claimed in an interview on Tuesday that Russian missiles have damaged at least 30 percent of the energy infrastructure of the entire nation since Vladimir Putin announced a “massive” strike on Monday.
European fears about sabotage were dramatically underlined when two cables 350 miles apart were cut at once, bringing the railway to a halt.
