Unclear if fire at main Ukrainian government building the result of a direct strike or falling debris Russia’s largest overnight air attack of the war has set the main building of the Ukrainian government in Kyiv on fire and left three people dead, including an infant, Ukrainian officials said on…

This marks a major departure from the first Trump administration, which emphasized deterring Beijing. Pentagon officials are proposing the department prioritize protecting the homeland and Western Hemisphere, a striking reversal from the military’s yearslong mandate to focus on the threat from China. A draft of the newest National Defense Strategy,…

The transatlantic trade deal promises $40 billion in European purchases of American artificial intelligence chips. Significant gaps remain. At first glance, this looks like a breakthrough: a transatlantic alignment on AI chips, the foundational technology for models, systems, and agents. It projects the image of cooperation in a landscape otherwise…

Waving over the crowd of 50,000 spectators assembled in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on Wednesday, Xi Jinping exuded an aura of confidence that many leaders in the West could only envy. To his left stood North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, the supreme leader of an increasingly strident hermit kingdom. To his right…

Europeans want greater co-operation and unity from their governments to help the EU better face the continent’s defence, security, and economic challenges, according to a new survey published (September).  Some 90 percent of Europeans want the bloc to be more unified, the Spring Eurobarometer poll found.  And 37 percent of…