It is a conviction that I know was shared until this January by the leaders of nearly every member of the NATO alliance—each ...

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That paves the way for their candidate, Friedrich Merz (pictured), to take over from Olaf Scholz as chancellor after ...

U KRAINIAN OFFICIALS are locked in talks with America whose brinkmanship is dizzying even by Donald Trump’s standards. He and ...

The other side of the border has been beefed up too. The US Department of Defence has ordered 1,500 additional active-duty ...

In part, this reflects the broader crypto boom—but stablecoins are increasingly used for real-world purposes, too. Migrants ...

Donald Trump is smashing up assumptions about America’s place in Europe’s security architecture that perhaps held faster in ...

The sackings have little to do with kindling the “warrior ethos”, which the defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, vows to do.

T he objections are flying in. On February 16th refugee groups and religious figures, including some bishops, complained that ...

Russian media constantly broadcasts about the “fake” nature of Ukrainian identity, using language reminiscent of past ...

But, from Vladimir Putin’s point of view, he had good reason to be part of it. As the boss of one of Russia’s state-backed ...

A MERICA IS IN the throes of its worst flu season in at least seven years. The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention ...