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Taiwan's president, William Lai, took part in a night-time drill practicing how leaders would be evacuated if China attacked, during the island's largest-ever military exercise.
A bulk carrier hit by an unidentified projectile in the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway between Iran and Oman through which much of the world's oil is shipped, is now on fire, with its crew fighting the blaze and one seafarer missing.
More than two dozen Palestinians killed in Gaza and over 125 Israeli incursions into Lebanese airspace this weekend test a disarmament framework announced just days earlier.
Several new reports this week look at Iran's missile attacks, low US weapons stockpiles, and hacking simulations, and find the same root cause: aging weapons factories and wavering political resolve are undercutting the West's ability to deter attacks.
Since clearing its 86-12 procedural vote, the Sanctioning Russia Act of 2026 has been narrowed to cap tariffs at 100 percent on the top five Russian energy buyers. Twelve EU states, including Czechia, still import some Russian energy, and Democrats warn the tariff power Trump would gain never expires.
This week's defense-industry news, from NATO picking five companies to build anti-drone systems to Greece buying a €3.5 billion Israeli air-defense system, Israel warning its own weapon stocks are running low, and Britain and Japan struggling to expand their arms production, all show the same problem.
An earthquake hit Kyushu, an island in southern Japan, on Tuesday.
Oman has given Iran a plan, backed by other Gulf countries, to jointly manage the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway that much of the world's oil ships through.
The US Senate is holding an actual floor vote on a sanctions bill that could impose tariffs up to 500 percent on countries still buying Russian or Iranian oil.
In one week, three of the world's busiest shipping passages were all in trouble.
For fifty years, powerful states kept dangerous technology behind a lock and rationed access as leverage. This week showed that reflex failing on three fronts at once — and what is replacing it.
A strait America cannot keep open, a navy built to close another, a nuclear taboo cracking in Tokyo, factories rising in Romania and Ukraine — read together, the week tells a single story about who pays for security and who collects.