Taiwan's government agency in charge of national security is coordinating a major defense buildup, including an 18% rise in next year's military budget, as tensions with China continue.
In one week, NATO jets shot down an explosive-laden drone that entered Latvia from Belarus, the US scaled back a major annual drill with South Korea, and a former Finnish prime minister warned Europe would react slowly to Chinese pressure on Taiwan, unlike its fast response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, because the EU's decades-old one China policy avoids taking a clear stand on Taiwan.
Several unrelated crises this week revealed the same problem: governments moving too slowly for fast-changing threats.
Germany, Italy, Austria, Poland, Portugal and Spain want EU finance ministers to discuss a new tax on oil companies at a meeting in Dublin next month.
Italy's deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini says Italy will not take back asylum seekers who first entered the EU through Italy but are now in Germany, even though EU rules say they should be sent back to the first country they entered.
Taiwan's National Security Council, once dismissed as powerless, is now coordinating the island's defense buildup against China, including a proposed 18% rise in next year's military budget, tougher war games, and eased rules for satellite internet providers like Starlink.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada is now 'at war' with the United States over trade, after talks between the two countries broke down.
A US-Canada trade truce collapsed, and 50% US tariffs on C$20 billion of Canadian goods are now in force; Canada says it will match them dollar-for-dollar.
German police are checking whether a weapons stash found in a Bavarian forest has ties to Russia.
The European Commission has joined other countries in telling Israel to cancel a plan to build settlements east of Jerusalem, which would split the West Bank in two.
Ukrainian drones hit a warehouse run by Ozon, Russia's second-biggest online retailer, in Russia's Samara region overnight into Saturday, starting a fire and forcing about 500 people to evacuate.
The US and Canada had said a trade deal was nearly done, but talks broke down at the last minute.