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Germany’s spy agencies gain sweeping new powers

Reform aims to bolster German surveillance and allow disruptive operations against enemies

Europe to join Ukraine peace talks 'in coming weeks' — German chancellor

Friedrich Merz said the talks will likely include representatives of the European countries that held consultations with...

Copper shortage or surplus? Banks split on 2027 outlook

The bank warns dwindling supplies could trigger a price squeeze, while Goldman Sachs sees risks from tariffs and investo...

'Devastated wasteland': Haitian security forces regain control of stadium from gangs

Haitian security forces said they have regained control of the country's main stadium, wresting it back from the gangs t...

Suicide car bombing at security checkpoint in Pakistan kills 5, injures 13

Congress Can Do More to Defend U.S. Alliances

It should start by expanding defense industrial cooperation and checking Trump’s attempts at coercion.

Senegal Bonds Plunge as Budget Row Puts IMF Program at Risk

Senegal’s dollar bonds fell this week as a budget standoff threatens to delay the government’s efforts to secure a $2.2 ...

The End of Convergence

Why the Developing World Is Falling Behind Again

How Global Energy Markets Survived Eight Months of Iran War Disruptions

Six months ago, I wrote that Americans were experiencing the Iran war primarily through higher prices, while much of the...

BREAKING NEWS: Japan, Mexico top diplomats agree to strengthen energy ties

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Russia tags UK NGO raising funds for Ukraine as undesirable — prosecutor’s office

Eurovision Mission to Europe has announced its active support for Ukrainian forces

Indonesia's wiretapping scandal opens a political fault line

Senior police officers are accused of illegally monitoring President Prabowo Subianto, exposing rival networks within In...

FBI Says North Korean Hackers Stole Over $400 Million in Crypto Using Deepfake Video Calls

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has established that threat actors tied to the Democratic People's Republ...

Ransomware attack on Belarusian cloud firm disrupts businesses for days

ActiveCloud said hackers had breached its systems and encrypted parts of its cloud infrastructure, leaving customers una...

Iran Is Poking The Bear

Tehran has been playing a dangerous game of chicken with the U.S. administration for months. With the just concluded mid...

The truth about Douma: How Syria covered up a chemical attack

On April 7, 2018, the Syrian town of Douma, on the outskirts of the capital Damascus, was targeted by a chemical attack....

Roscosmos says establishing launch sites in other countries still priority

Sergey Krikalyov, the agency's deputy head for manned space programs, said that joint projects with various countries wi...

EU leaders discuss how to boost Europe's AI industry while tackling risks at Dublin summit

European leaders together with Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch and AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton discussed how Europe can build i...

US says it shot down two Iranian drones heading towards Bahrain

US says it shot down two Iranian drones heading towards Bahrain The US military on Friday said it had shot down two Iran...

Turkey and Egypt weigh joint naval shipbuilding projects

Turkey and Egypt are taking steps to strengthen their cooperation in the maritime domain, with joint shipbuilding opport...

NATO recon aircraft detected near Kaliningrad Region for third time this week

It spent five hours flying there

DR Congo tin exports to revive US sector

A Pentagon-backed US smelter will produce the metal essential to the manufacture of radar and other military electronics...

Ghana sets out $10B investment plan

As part of the push to shift the economy, Africa’s largest gold producer wants to phase out exports of unprocessed miner...

UK to buy three new mine-hunting drone motherships under Norway agreement

The decision, for which £90 million ($119.1 million) has been allocated, was formalized on Thursday by British Defense S...

Can Netanyahu launch a strike on Iran before he leaves?

PM's caretaker government can legally go to war, though it would likely inflame domestic divisions.

Ukraine claims record 3,000 Russian casualties in one day as war drags on

Meanwhile, Russia appears to suggest it has control of half of unoccupied Donbas.

Russia is ‘setting traps’ in Ukraine talks, EU foreign policy chief warns

Kaja Kallas says Moscow is trying to divert attention from its aggression by raising issue of European securityEurope li...

Most Ukrainians 'think there's no chance of a peace deal' with Russia

Ukrainian attacks killed at least nine people in Russia overnight, while Moscow struck a hospital in Kyiv and killed at ...

Kallas says 'Russians don't want me' as EU envoy for peace talks

Kaja Kallas has made a strong push to be appointed special EU envoy for the peace negotiations. But "Russians do not wan...

US envoys brief Europeans in Dublin on Moscow talks — Polish PM

Late last night, representatives of the United States, the United Kingdom, Poland, Germany, France, Italy and EU institu...

Lichfield interviewed on Bloomberg TV to discuss Nvidia’s leadership crisis and the US – China AI competition

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Merz chooses to give money to Kiev rather than help own people — legislator

Even as Germany has enough budget funds to address the key problems facing the country’s society, Merz once again chose ...

Japan’s AZEC and POWERR Asia Are Failing Southeast Asia 

Tokyo has every right to defend its own trade networks. But it has no right to dress up its domestic fossil fuel strateg...

NATO Is Not the Right Forum to Discuss China 

No matter how strange and exaggerated NATO finds the Chinese perspective on the alliance, the organization should consid...

Nvidia fallout throws spotlight on Southeast Asia’s AI boom

Southeast Asia’s chip and data centre industries expect greater scrutiny after news of former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s ...

UN nuclear watchdog increasingly concerned about Iranian enrichment plant, report says

The United Nations nuclear watchdog is "increasingly concerned" about a uranium-enrichment plant at Isfahan that Iran de...

Lichfield and de Kruijf cited in a CNN on the dynamic between Russia and the Trump administration

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Would Jensen Huang’s fall dent China’s AI ambitions?

Huang's departure from Nvidia comes as US lawmakers are pressing for stricter chip export controls to China

Zelensky caught lying about Ukrainian control of Konstantinovka — Russian politician

According to Leonid Slutsky, the Kiev regime uses lies as a tool of its neo-Nazi policy

Lichfield quoted in a Reuters on the midterm impact on the US support for Ukraine and policy towards Russia

Read the full article here The post Lichfield quoted in a Reuters on the midterm impact on the US support for Ukraine an...