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

30/10/2025 08:18 Washington Post

The president said he wanted testing to occur “on an equal basis” with Russia and China, just before he met his Chinese counterpart for high-stakes trade talks.

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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

Defiance of hijab requirements has grown widespread across Iran. The government seems wary of cracking down, fearing unrest. But conservatives haven’t given up....

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

The announcement marked a significant de-escalation of a volatile trade war ahead of President Donald Trump’s Thursday meeting with Xi Jinping....

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
Tips for Trump on Russia (from an ex-oligarch once jailed by Putin)

The key to dealing with Moscow, Mikhail Khodorkovsky said, is understanding the paramount role of Vladimir Putin as the driver of the war and applying direct pressure....

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....

24/10/2025 04:00 Washington Post
Putin says U.S. sanctions are ‘serious’ but won’t make Russia stop war

President Donald Trump’s sanctions against two of Russia’s largest oil companies come as the European Union passes its 19th package targeting the energy sector....

23/10/2025 19:25 Washington Post
Frustration grows over Trump bailout of Argentina

President Trump’s decision to bail out Argentina has sparked outrage among U.S. farmers struggling from the trade war with China....

23/10/2025 12:07 Washington Post
E.U. eyes a giant pot of frozen Russian money to help Ukraine in war

Squeezed by President Donald Trump and taxpayers, E.U. leaders are weighing a plan to tap into some $200 billion in frozen Russian assets to give Ukraine cash....

23/10/2025 10:34 Washington Post
Russia acquired Western technology to protect its nuclear submarine fleet

Russia secretly used front companies to buy Western technology and erect a surveillance net in the Arctic where its submarines operate, an investigation shows....

23/10/2025 04:05 Washington Post
U.S. imposes sanctions on Russian oil companies after strikes on Ukraine kill 7

Renewed Russian attacks, following the apparent collapse of a planned Trump-Putin meeting, show that a negotiated solution to the war remains distant....

22/10/2025 22:47 Washington Post
Trump beats the drums of war for direct action in Venezuela

The Trump administration has surged warships, fighter jets and troops to the Caribbean for drug interdiction. Many see the ultimate goal as toppling Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro....

22/10/2025 21:48 Washington Post
Drones test Europe’s readiness for Russian attacks — and for disinformation

Within hours of drones entering Poland, thousands of social media posts claimed they were Ukrainian, not Russian, and a “false flag” to pull NATO into the war....

22/10/2025 09:35 Washington Post
Trump says he doesn’t want ‘wasted meeting’ with Putin, delaying summit

The decision came after Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Trump’s call for a ceasefire contradicted the understandings he reached with Putin....

21/10/2025 16:24 Washington Post
Could Trump's boat strikes turn into war?

There’s been an unexpected twist in the Trump administration’s escalating attacks on alleged “narco-terrorists” from Venezuela: Two people survived a boat attack....

20/10/2025 20:58 Washington Post
In tense meeting, Trump told Zelensky to concede land, meet Putin’s demands

In an often fraught encounter, Trump told Zelensky to accept Putin’s terms to end the war, according to people familiar with the meeting....

20/10/2025 13:00 Washington Post
China’s economy grows at slowest pace in a year as trade war bites

Official data put the annual growth rate at 4.8 percent, a sobering number for Chinese Communist Party leaders as they begin an important planning meeting....

20/10/2025 12:44 Washington Post
Russians’ surrender to Ukrainian robot marks further transformation of war

Aerial drones once changed the fighting in Ukraine. Now it’s explosive-laden unmanned vehicles....

20/10/2025 09:31 Washington Post
Desperately needed aid now reaching more of Gaza’s population amid truce

But humanitarian groups continue to face challenges in supplying assistance, including blocked roads, damaged warehouses and Israeli government restrictions....

19/10/2025 18:51 Washington Post
Putin demanded Ukraine surrender key territory in call with Trump

The demand from Putin would significantly disadvantage Ukraine and could be an obstacle to peace, officials said....

18/10/2025 20:12 Washington Post
With a phone call, Putin appears to change Trump’s mind on Ukraine. Again.

It was the latest swing in President Donald Trump’s position on the war that often shifts following contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin....

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