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A new Italian study finds Russian, Chinese and Iranian influence campaigns running side by side against Italy's institutions, each exploiting the same openings.
As Typhoon Dolphin approached, China ordered ships to follow its traffic controls in the Taiwan Strait, the narrow sea passage between China and Taiwan.
US intelligence believes Russian President Vladimir Putin might try a small military attack on a NATO country to test the alliance's response, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The interest rate the US government pays on 30-year debt has hit its highest level since 2007, as investors worry about US debt levels.
China announced new measures against the United States, including putting American firms on a trade blacklist and tightening controls on drone exports.
Current and former US officials tell Reuters the Pentagon has used almost its entire stock of long-range precision-guided missiles fighting Iran, raising questions about what would be left for a separate crisis with Russia or China.
A Russian military intelligence officer spent 17 months working undetected out of a Tokyo office disguised as an airline employee, buying parts that Ukrainian officials say are now found in about 90% of Russia's missiles and drones.
Across shipping lanes, sanctions votes, Schengen borders and the war in Ukraine, the seven days to 2 August showed the same pattern: coalitions fraying into unilateral action, while China compounds its advantages in the gaps.
Hamas said Friday it agreed to a US-brokered plan under which it would disarm and Israeli troops would withdraw from Gaza.
CFR's survey of foreign-policy experts puts the odds of coherent global AI governance at a median 29 out of 100. Meanwhile nation-state hackers are already folding generative models into every stage of the intrusion lifecycle, and Taiwan is racing to build an AI defense it cannot yet fund. Three threads, one convergence.
In one week, four governments took steps to make their military threats harder to ignore.
A short news report says Burnham, a British politician, has said he wants the UK to work more closely with the European Union (EU) as the government rethinks its relationship after Brexit, the UK's departure from the EU.