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The UK said Wednesday that it launch a new Royal Air Force squadron to protect satellites and counter hostile activity in space. Defense Secretary Wes Streeting said Britain must “keep pace in the new space race,” according to a statement by the government. The new unit, No III Space Effects Squadron, will bring together specialist […]

British Premier Andy Burnham on Tuesday called for a “single set of global principles and standards” to govern artificial intelligence. Burnham made the remarks at a business and investor roundtable in New York, where he met senior figures from the technology and business world, including Apple executive chair Tim Cook. The regulation of AI is […]

Paris authorized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plane to fly through French airspace Tuesday as he traveled to New York for the UN General Assembly, according to a diplomatic source. “This is the fifth time. It is time to put an end to this France that humiliates itself and tramples on international law,” European Parliament […]

Türkiye's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and British Prime Minister Andy Burnham on Tuesday discussed regional and global issues, as well as the bilateral relations in their first face-to-face meeting held on the margins of the 81st UN General Assembly. During the meeting, President Erdogan said relations between the two nations were strengthening in all areas, […]

The European Commission struck a trade agreement with the Philippines on Tuesday, stepping up its diversification strategy across the Indo-Pacific region. The deal comes more than a year after the US introduced sweeping new tariffs on many of its trading partners, prompting retaliatory measures and adding to global trade tensions. Since then, the EU has […]

The US is planning to establish two new military bases in Greenland as part of efforts to expand its presence on the Arctic island, Danish public broadcaster DR reported on Tuesday. The locations have yet to be determined, but Washington has repeatedly expressed interest in the airport at Narsarsuaq in southern Greenland, DR said, citing […]

The UK has joined a French-Mexican initiative calling for restrictions on the use of the UN Security Council veto in cases involving genocide and crimes against humanity, the French Foreign Ministry said late Monday. In a written statement, the ministry said 21 additional countries from the Caribbean, South America and Asia had endorsed the initiative […]

European People’s Party leader Manfred Weber warned that Morocco could face “obvious consequences” if the border with the Spanish exclave of Ceuta could not be stabilized, raising the prospect of further “uncontrolled situations” following the arrival of around 80,000 irregular migrants at the end of July. Weber was the first senior EU figure to visit […]

A new rotation of US troops is on its way to Lithuania, President Gitanas Nauseda announced Tuesday. “I have just received confirmation that the new rotation of U.S. troops is already on its way to Lithuania!” Nauseda said on the US social media company X. He thanked US President Donald Trump and his administration for […]

Nearly half of German voters would favor snap national elections if Chancellor Friedrich Merz resigns, according to a new INSA poll published Tuesday. If Merz left office, 45% of respondents said they wanted a new national vote. Another 31% said his conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the center-left SPD should use their majority in parliament to […]