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The US military has finalized a new plan focused on tactical nuclear weapons, which are smaller and shorter-range than the country's main nuclear arsenal.
The European Union is considering putting Bertha von Suttner, a Czech-born countess, on a redesigned euro banknote, reportedly the 200-euro note.
Ukraine says it does not have enough Patriot air-defense missiles, called interceptors, to stop Russian missile attacks, and the shortage is costing lives after a deadly strike on Kyiv.
EU interior ministers meet Tuesday to decide whether to bring back border checks across Schengen, Europe's passport-free travel zone, after a migration crisis at Ceuta, a Spanish territory in North Africa.
Iran said Monday it is not negotiating with the United States and expects no talks, contradicting President Trump, who said a deal over the Strait of Hormuz (a key oil shipping route) could start that same afternoon.
Saudi Arabia and 13 other countries founded a new alliance on July 30, 2026 to protect Red Sea shipping routes after Yemen's Houthi fighters declared a naval blockade and hit several oil tankers.
Poland says a Russian Kh-101 cruise missile crossed into its airspace overnight and crashed, leaving a 10-metre crater, and scrambled fighter jets in response.
A suspected Russian missile crashed inside Poland, a NATO member, leaving a 10-metre crater near a village during a Russian attack on the Ukrainian city of Lviv.
Four separate studies published this month found China pulling ahead of the United States in several areas at once: global opinion polls now favor China over the US in most countries, China's trade surplus keeps growing, its biotech industry is running drug trials faster and cheaper, and its military has added disinformation and fake videos to its war plans for Taiwan (a self-governing island China claims).
US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met at the White House on Tuesday for the first time since US and Israeli strikes on Iran in late February set off new Middle East fighting.
Deterrence has always been a belief, not a weapon. This week, in Tehran, Kyiv, Tokyo and along the Korean border, that belief started to fail in the same place at once.
The floated 10-day ceasefire has not held: US strikes reach a 13th night, Trump threatens a 'bigger' offensive, and oil above $100 turns a regional war into a worldwide price shock.