Press play to listen to this article LONDON — It’s Westminster’s oldest cliché — but a week really is a long time in politics. Seven days ago, Liz Truss was watching her fledgling bid for the Conservative leadership falter after the first round of voting left her in a distant third place. Fast-forward one week … Read more
PARIS — The war in Ukraine has even shaken up Bastille Day, a powerful political, historical and symbolic event in France. France celebrated its national holiday Thursday with thousands of French troops marching down the Champs-Elysees Avenue in Paris alongside allies from Eastern Europe. The parade also featured warplanes, military vehicles and a drone in … Read more
Moves by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) this week reportedly put the alliance on its most dangerous footing with Russia since the Cold War. Is that true? Yes, NATO’s new Strategic Concept adopted at this week’s summit defines Russia as “the most significant and direct threat to Allies’ security and to peace and stability … Read more
MADRID (AP) — An unstable world could get even more dangerous if NATO does not remain strong and united, the head of the alliance said Thursday at the end of a summit where Western leaders labeled Russia “a direct threat” to the security of their nations. During their three-day meeting in Madrid, NATO members confronted a geopolitical … Read more
Lithuania imposed a ground transit ban of EU sanctioned Russian goods through its territory on Saturday, cutting off the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast. The governor of the oblast, Anton Alikhanov, said the ban will block half of all goods coming into the territory, the majority of which travel via railroad. The ban will also … Read more
The former wife of disgraced first son Hunter Biden said in her first TV interview Tuesday that she can’t square her former husband with the strung-out pervert revealed in graphic photos and recordings found on the laptop he abandoned at a Delaware computer repair shop. “We’ve seen images of Hunter, the ones that were on his laptop, looking … Read more