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Two American service members were killed in an Iranian ballistic missile and drone attack on Friday in Jordan, U.S. Central Command announced on social media Saturday. Another service member is unaccounted for. The deaths mark the latest flare-up in tensions since U.S. President Donald Trump declared the ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran had ended. Sixteen American […]

“I am fulfilling my obligation under the Fundamental Law — after thoroughly weighing my legal options and my conscience,” Sulyok said in a post on social media. “At the same time, however, it is enduring proof that the fundamental values of a free society — the rule of law, democracy, and the principle of the […]

But while electronic voting machines have not been exploited at scale, they do have vulnerabilities that researchers have pressed manufacturers and election officials alike to patch for more than 10 years. Many of these vulnerabilities have been discovered during the annual Voting Village gathering at the DEFCON conference in Las Vegas, where hackers are able […]

“The gap between my private decision to have a child through surrogacy and the understandable expectations placed on me as chair of our parliamentary group has become greater than I anticipated,” he added. Although surrogacy itself is illegal in Germany, there is no penalty for bringing up a child born through a surrogate mother abroad. […]

Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency quoted local authorities as saying that 10,000 people were facing water shortages following a U.S. strike on a desalination plant. Tehran has previously accused Washington of damaging a desalination plant in March. U.S. Central Command said it had hit “surveillance sites, military logistics infrastructure, underground weapons storage, and maritime capabilities.” […]

In the battle over AI regulation — from Washington, D.C. to Silicon Valley — one term has become unexpectedly controversial: “AI safety.” After all, who doesn’t believe in making these tools safe? But depending on where people stand on the issue, “AI safety” has come to signal wildly different things. Some are concerned about existential […]

The widening zone is emptying towns and villages, as thousands of people flee every month. June was the deadliest month for Ukrainian civilians since April 2022, the U.N. human rights monitors said this week, with at least 293 killed and 1,990 injured. Casualties from short-range drones near the front reached their highest level of the […]

Beim deutsch-französischen Ministerrat steht die europäische Verteidigung im Fokus. Nach dem Scheitern von FCAS drängt die Zeit für Kanzler Friedrich Merz und Präsident Emmanuel Macron. Mit Hans von der Burchard blickt Rixa Fürsen auf die sicherheitspolitische Agenda. Es geht um Raketenabwehr und eine bisher undenkbare Kooperation bei der nuklearen Abschreckung vor den Wahlen in Frankreich. […]

Europeans are traveling in huge numbers this summer — but the conflict in the Middle East, volatile fuel prices linked to disruption in the Strait of Hormuz, and a troubled new border system are making journeys more complicated. Sarah Wheaton is joined by POLITICO reporters Ben Munster, Tommaso Lecca and Jordyn Dahl to unpack how […]