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Russia to salute the new year with enhanced military, new weapons

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Upgrades include ships, nuclear submarines, intercontinental missiles, and a new type of rocket-launched flamethrower. Image A ship of the Northern Fleet Russia in the new year will launch a number of moves designed to enhance its military, with weapons and a key reorganization in the works for 2021 and beyond. The moves come amid accounts of high-profile military maneuvers that saw Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean aircraft escorting or responding to one another during flights over the Asia-Pacific. Additionally, the enhancements follow a  report  that Moscow in recent years built up and repositioned military forces along its borders with Eastern Europe. The next Russian military development commences Jan. 1, when the Northern Fleet — traditionally run by the navy — officially becomes the defense ministry's fifth military district.  Other  upgrades  include ships, nuclear submarines, intercontinental missiles and launchers, and a new type of rocket-launched flamethrower. West

Emails obtained by FBI detail how Hunter Biden landed Ukrainian gas gig in 2014

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Memos show concerted strategy to leverage VP Joe Biden's trip to Kiev to score Burisma Holdings deal. Image Former President Barack Obama (L) greets Vice President Joe Biden (C) and his son Hunter Biden as they attend the game between the Duke Blue Devils and Georgetown Hoyas on January 30, 2010 at the Verizon Center in Washington, DC. In the weeks before he landed a deal with a Ukrainian gas company in 2014, Hunter Biden strategized with his business partner on how to leverage an upcoming official trip to Kiev by his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to clinch the lucrative arrangement, according to emails obtained a year ago by the FBI. The communications reviewed by Just the News show that the younger Biden referred to his father as "my guy" and took credit for "adding value" because the vice president made comments to Ukrainian leaders about natural gas production that might benefit his new client.  The memos also show how Hunter Biden pressed to get Bu