Saudi Arabia has raised its alert level after the Houthis, an armed group from Yemen, threatened Mecca, Islam's holiest city, and warned of a red line.
This week the European Union took three steps at once: a plan to standardize how it detects and responds to sabotage blamed on Russia, faster EU rules for member states to jointly buy weapons, and talks for Estonia to join a French nuclear protection arrangement.
EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen has proposed a new EU-only alarm system that would let any of the Union's 27 member states trigger a joint EU response to security crises that fall short of an outright armed attack.
Yemen's Houthi movement said it is now targeting Mecca, Islam's holiest city, prompting Saudi Arabia to declare a 'red line' and raise its highest alert in the ongoing Red Sea conflict.
NATO fighter jets shot down a drone over Lithuania, the first time the alliance has destroyed an aircraft over a member country's own territory, after a series of similar Baltic airspace incidents that NATO blames on Russia.
Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan have signed a new mutual-defense pact, but each country sees itself as the senior partner, and none has enough leverage to settle the ranking.
A joint investigation by Deutsche Welle and other European broadcasters found that a Colombian man who set fire to Prague buses in June 2024 was recruited online by a Cuban working for Russian intelligence.
NATO fighter jets shot down a drone that flew into airspace over Lithuania, a NATO member country in the Baltic region.
A strike on a cargo ship near Iran's coast killed one person and wounded four, then rattled stock and currency markets as far as Taiwan and Singapore in the following days.
Finland has joined a nuclear deterrence deal with France that lets French fighter jets use Finnish airfields, but without the shared-defense commitments that NATO membership normally requires.
The US House of Representatives is expected to vote this week on a bill letting President Trump impose tariffs of up to 100% on the five biggest buyers of Russian oil and gas.
A cargo ship was hit near Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway between Iran and Oman that much of the world's oil passes through.