Top European Union diplomat Kaja Kallas said the EU would be ready to take the lead on supporting Ukraine if the United States was no longer willing.

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US President-elect Donald Trump said that a meeting is being set up between him and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is said to have blocked a proposal for an additional €3 billion aid package for weapons to Ukraine, according to a local media report.

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If we take President-elect Donald Trump refusal to rule out using military force to take Greenland at face value, would Denmark stand a chance at defending the island at all?

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Israeli forces killed more than 64,000 people in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023 — meaning the widely reported death toll was underestimated by 41 percent, a major study published yesterday in The Lancet found.

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🚨 BREAKING: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was confined to hospital suffering from pneumonia, her spokesperson said today, shedding light on the seriousness of her illness for the first time.

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Norway plans to reintroduce an obligation to build bomb shelters in new buildings, a practice halted in 1998, the Norwegian government announced today.

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Tensions over Greenland as Donald Trump maneuvers to take the island are triggering "some shit" in the Arctic, said Faroe Islands Foreign Minister Høgni Hoydal today.

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The Polish defense minister dismissed a high-ranking general who is allegedly responsible for losing anti-tank mines eventually found in an IKEA warehouse.

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OPINION: Right now, Russia knows all it needs to do to prevent a country from joining NATO is to invade and partially occupy it — and that needs to change.

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For many Cubans who see life under Havana’s dictatorial regime and as an open-air prison, obtaining a Russian passport is considered a ticket to freedom and wealth.

But the document comes with a noose attached.

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German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock warned that regional actors such as Turkey and Israel could threaten Syria’s fragile peace, as European and Middle Eastern envoys met in Riyadh yesterday to discuss lifting EU sanctions.

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The EU needs to rethink its spending priorities to boost defense budgets, NATO's new Secretary-General Mark Rutte told the European Parliament today.

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Top defense officials from Germany, the UK, France, Poland and Italy said that the future of Europe’s democracies hinges on boosting military spending.

That means Europe should make its defense industry less bound by regulation, they argued.

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NATO is ramping up its work to detect and stop attacks against subsea energy and data cables in the Baltic Sea, its chief said today.

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🚨 BREAKING: Russia plotted terror attacks on airlines around the world, Poland's Donald Tusk has said.

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Germany wants to fight back against a surge in suspicious drone activity over critical infrastructure and military sites in the country by allowing its military to shoot down the unmanned aircraft.

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Defenders of the city of Mariupol and of the Azovstal steel plant in southeastern Ukraine are among the 25 prisoners released by Russia in a reciprocal prisoner exchange, the first of 2025. 

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Donald Trump in the White House doesn't have to mean a collapse of the effort to defeat Russia in Ukraine, Poland and Ukraine's leaders said in Warsaw.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned Europe that it has “no chance” against Russia without Ukraine.

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