This week officials in Iran, India, France and Sweden all used the word "deterrence," but meant different things by it: Iran praised conscripts, India used new doctrinal terms, France restated its pledge to defend Poland with nuclear weapons, and Sweden published a public guide to nuclear weapons.
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.
France has joined Germany and nine other EU countries asking to end a rule that lets any single EU country block foreign policy decisions, like sanctions or aid, by voting no.
About 6,949 people crossed the English Channel from France to England in small boats between June and August, the lowest summer total since 2020, according to the Daily Mail.
In one week, four separate incidents added to a pattern of suspected Russian hybrid warfare against European countries.
The European Union lent Ukraine 90 billion euros, and special rules currently let Kyiv use some of that money to buy weapons and parts from outside the EU, including from China and the United States.
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.
About 60,000 migrants crossed from Morocco into Ceuta, a Spanish territory in North Africa, within 24 hours, up from roughly 50,000 the day before.
The European Union is preparing its biggest single sanctions move yet: blacklisting more than 1,600 companies accused of helping Russia's war effort, a 50 percent jump in the number of firms already under EU sanctions.
On Monday, US diplomats left a UN Security Council meeting while France was speaking about Ukraine.
Wildfires in southwest France have burned 42,000 hectares and forced more than 300,000 people to leave their homes, with the flames moving toward Bordeaux, the heart of France's best-known wine region.
France turns its annual military parade into a demonstration of European backing for Kyiv, with allied aircraft and troops pledged to Ukraine's post-war security taking centre stage.