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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz publicly accused the Trump administration on April 27 of entering the Iran war without a viable exit strategy and of being outmaneuvered by Tehran at the negotiating table, marking his sharpest departure yet from the political…
NATO is actively deliberating whether to end its practice of holding annual leaders' summits, with some member states pushing for a biennial format and at least one diplomat floating the option of canceling the 2028 gathering entirely, according to six…
King Charles III and Queen Camilla completed a state visit to the United States this week, traveling to Washington, New York, and Virginia against the most strained backdrop the bilateral relationship has seen in years. The visit coincided with the…
Iran transmitted a new proposal to the Trump administration offering to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end the ongoing conflict in exchange for the lifting of the U.S. naval blockade on Iranian ports, while deferring nuclear negotiations to a…
Cole Tomas Allen, 31, of Torrance, California, was arraigned in U.S. District Court on charges arising from the April 25 shooting at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, facing one count of attempted assassination of the president, transportation of a…
The U.S. military has integrated a Ukrainian-developed command-and-control platform at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, according to five sources familiar with the matter cited by Reuters. The platform, Sky Map, owned by Ukrainian firm Sky Fortress, has been…
Congress faces an April 30 deadline to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, after both chambers passed a 10-day stopgap extension and President Donald Trump signed it into law on April 19. [1][2] The short extension followed…
The Council of the European Union on April 23 adopted the final legislative piece underpinning a €90 billion loan to Ukraine, first agreed by EU heads of state in December 2025. The approval ended a two-month impasse driven by a…
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy seized two commercial container ships in the Strait of Hormuz on April 22, escorting them into Iranian territorial waters within hours of President Donald Trump announcing an indefinite extension of the U.S.-Iran ceasefire. The…
A cluster of overlapping European defense initiatives, spanning bilateral partnerships, multilateral coalitions, and EU treaty mechanisms, has accelerated in April 2026 as President Donald Trump has repeated threats to withdraw the United States from NATO. The moves reflect a structural…