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11/11/2025 10:00 Washington Post

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Russia is winning the battle for influence in Georgia against the E.U.

One year after its elections and pro-Russian party victory, The European Union said Georgia is a candidate in “name only” amid democratic backsliding....

11/11/2025 08:00 Washington Post

Germany’s gruff defense minister aims to make his country ‘war-ready’

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius must reckon with his center-left party’s anti-militarism and the country’s need to defend Europe against Russian aggression....

08/11/2025 10:28 Washington Post

China’s chemical exports are behind a ‘tsunami’ of meth flooding Asia

Chinese manufacturers are shipping meth precursor chemicals to warlords in Myanmar, precipitating a drug crisis across the Asia-Pacific, a Post investigation finds....

08/11/2025 10:00 Washington Post

Dick Cheney’s Iraq War legacy lives on

The former vice president is outlived by the cascading consequences of a war he defended to the last, even as Republican politics shifted....

07/11/2025 05:00 Washington Post

Trump’s ill-defined nuclear test threat compels a response from Putin

Amid the dangerous back and forth, Moscow rejected U.S. claims it had breached a testing moratorium but said it would assess what preparations would be needed to conduct one....

06/11/2025 10:00 Washington Post

As Pokrovsk is set to fall, Ukraine must choose to fight or save troops

Pokrovsk has been a bastion of resistance, and Russia taking it would be a propaganda win, but experts say it is time to withdraw and save lives for future battles....

06/11/2025 08:00 Washington Post

Dick Cheney, powerful vice president during war on terrorism, dies at 84

After the Sept. 11 attacks, perceiving an elemental threat to American society, Mr. Cheney used his role as Bush’s chief strategist to approve the use of torture and steer U.S. occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq....

04/11/2025 12:02 Washington Post

Trump threat of military action in Nigeria prompts confusion and alarm

Trump also warned of aid cuts over alleged attacks on Christians, though an adviser to Nigeria’s president dismissed the remarks as a negotiating tactic....

03/11/2025 11:00 Washington Post

China says it doesn’t interfere. The war next door suggests otherwise.

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03/11/2025 10:00 Washington Post

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The Office of Legal Counsel told select lawmakers that the executive branch is not bound by the War Powers Resolution, which requires congressional approval for any military action that exceeds 60 days....

01/11/2025 20:28 Washington Post

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01/11/2025 07:04 Washington Post

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Poseidon is part of Russia’s line up of “super weapons” meant to gain military parity with the West and it can supposedly drown coastal cities....

01/11/2025 06:00 Washington Post

As U.S. ramps up pressure, Venezuela pleads with Moscow and Beijing for help

Documents show Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro drafted a letter asking Russia for missiles, radars and upgraded aircraft as U.S. forces amass in the Caribbean....

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Sudan’s war takes horrific turn, as Trump looks away

The White House loves quick deals and photo-ops, but there’s no simple solution to ending the war in Sudan....

31/10/2025 04:00 Washington Post

Trump directs Pentagon to test nuclear weapons for first time since 1992

The president said he wanted testing to occur “on an equal basis” with Russia and China. The Kremlin condemned the move, and there was no indication of when tests might take place....

30/10/2025 10:28 Washington Post

A look at past nuclear weapons tests in Russia, China and the U.S.

Trump said the U.S. will test nuclear weapons “on an equal basis” with Russia and China. None of the three countries has tested live nuclear weapons since the 1990s....

30/10/2025 07:34 Washington Post

Trump nominee at U.S. export bank withdraws amid scrutiny of Russia ties

Bryce McFerran is a senior executive at a steel-trading business co-owned by one of Russia’s richest oligarchs and is married to a member of a Russian family with extensive ties to the Kremlin....

29/10/2025 21:43 Washington Post

U.S. to withdraw some troops from Romania, NATO’s eastern flank

It is the first announcement of the Trump administration’s plans to scale back forces in Europe, where the U.S. has underpinned security since World War II....

29/10/2025 21:19 Washington Post

Trump rebukes Putin for testing new missiles, tells him to end the war

Russia tested a nuclear-powered cruise missile that it said is capable of traveling thousands of miles. Trump countered that there is a U.S. nuclear submarine off Russia’s coast....

29/10/2025 20:09 Washington Post

Confident Xi to meet Trump at tenuous time in U.S.-China trade war

The Chinese leader looks confident ahead of the meeting in South Korea, striking a deal that will largely wind back to the clock to before Trump’s tariff blitz....

29/10/2025 09:00 Washington Post

Russia has pounded Ukraine’s fortress city for over a year, but it hangs on

It was supposed to fall more than a year ago, but Pokrovsk is still holding on, even as street fighting has erupted inside the city after Russian troops infiltrated....

28/10/2025 12:01 Washington Post

As Hong Kong waged shadow war in Britain, ex-Royal Marine became a casualty

U.K. officials have tracked what they describe as an escalating campaign of surveillance and intimidation against Hong Kong exiles living in Britain....

28/10/2025 09:00 Washington Post

Iranian women flout law on mandatory veiling as police curtail arrests

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27/10/2025 09:00 Washington Post

As U.S. forces close in on Venezuela, lawmakers warn of ‘expanding’ operation

The Trump administration has sent warships, fighter jets and surveillance aircraft to the region as it wages what it says is armed conflict against narcoterrorists....

26/10/2025 18:07 Washington Post

Chinese and U.S. officials tentatively agree to avert 100 percent tariffs

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26/10/2025 13:59 Washington Post

Ireland elects a leftist who campaigned on economic justice, Gaza

Catherine Connolly, an independent endorsed by Sinn Fein, campaigned on calls for urgent domestic reform with an unflinching critique of Israel’s war in Gaza....

25/10/2025 22:43 Washington Post

They wanted to make hummus. The Gaza war made them a political target.

An Israeli and a Palestinian opened a restaurant hailed as a sign of hope — but the Hamas attack and war in Gaza brought ugliness and tested their partnership....

25/10/2025 09:00 Washington Post

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24/10/2025 17:14 Washington Post

Rubio stresses there is ‘no plan B’ amid questions over Trump’s Gaza deal

The secretary of state said the U.S. was committed to Israel’s security, while warning the Trump-brokered ceasefire deal was the “only plan” that would succeed....

24/10/2025 13:00 Washington Post

Trump merges war on drugs with war on terror in Venezuela showdown

The Trump administration’s invocation of al-Qaeda when discussing its South American operations suggests an intent to shrug off standard processes of accountability....

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