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Sir Keir Starmer has reiterated his support for the “democratically-elected” Volodymyr Zelensky after Donald Trump launched ...

Europe is at risk of becoming a "museum" if it doesn't soften strict curbs on artificial intelligence technologies and ...

NATO members continued their largest combat exercises of 2025 on Wednesday, testing their ability to rapidly deploy ...

Not so much the art of the deal, as the art of the betrayal. Last week Donald Trump's newly appointed defence secretary Pete ...

DXY is up again as King Trump romps hither and thither. AUD eased. Lead boots ahoy! Commods yawn. Miners smashed. EM pause.

The contract presented to Kyiv last week seemed more akin to the likes of an exploitative contract imposed on vanquished ...