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26.02.2025 19:30 British Prime Minister Keir Starmer pledged the "biggest sustained increase" in defense spending since the end of the Cold War as he readies to meet NATO-skeptic U.S. President Donald Trump later this week in Washington.

26.02.2025 19:30 As the UK faces a period of profound change, with conflicts overseas undermining security and prosperity at home, the Prime Minister has today set out that his commitment to increase spending on defence to 2.5% of GDP from April 2027.

26.02.2025 19:30 An official Chinese media report on Tuesday provided details of recent exercises by Chinese People's Liberation Army warships in the Pacific Ocean that included live-fire drills, which have been hyped by Australia and New Zealand over the past few days.

26.02.2025 19:30 France has reportedly expressed readiness to use its nuclear deterrent to help protect Europe against potential threats amid US plans to withdraw its forces from the continent.

26.02.2025 19:30 The Trump administration has proposed punitive new fees on international shipping that would target vessels owned by Chinese companies or manufactured in Chinese shipyards, promising to dramatically alter the economics of global trade.

26.02.2025 19:30 Hong Kong's largest and oldest opposition party, the Democratic Party, has announced that it will start the process of disbanding, a move that analysts say will mark "the end of an era" for the city's pro-democracy forces.

26.02.2025 19:30 China's growing copper reserves have caught the eye of President Donald Trump, who on Tuesday ordered an investigation into what administration officials say is Beijing's move to "gain control of the world's copper markets."

26.02.2025 19:30 Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi, after a meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, said Tehran would not bow to pressure from the United States, a day after Washington imposed new sanctions on Iran's oil industry.

26.02.2025 19:30 Germany's likely next chancellor has warned that the United States cares little about Europe's fate and has called for the continent to urgently organize its own defense capabilities, marking a profound shift in approach from Europe's biggest economy.

26.02.2025 19:30 On Feb. 20, Ivory Coast became the latest African nation to expel French troops, taking control of the last remaining French military base in the country.

26.02.2025 19:30 South Korea's Constitutional Court on Tuesday heard the last of the oral arguments in President Yoon Suk Yeol's impeachment trial.

26.02.2025 19:30 The outlines of U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to reach a peace deal on Ukraine may still be faint, but the fault lines between Europe and Washington are beginning to show after a week of unprecedented rhetoric directed at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

26.02.2025 19:30 Thailand is emerging as one of Russia's main pipelines for machine and computer parts with the potential for military use, with a growing number of local companies accused of helping Moscow evade Western export controls meant to cripple its war on Ukraine.

26.02.2025 19:30 More migrants slated for deportation from the United States arrived Tuesday at the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, under the watchful eye of U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

26.02.2025 19:30 Taiwan's coast guard detained a cargo ship and its Chinese crew after an undersea cable in the Taiwan Strait was damaged on Tuesday, saying it cannot rule out the possibility it was a deliberate "gray zone" act.