Global military spending rises 2.9% despite US decline over Ukraine freeze
Global military spending rose 2.9% in 2025 despite a 7.5% decline in the United States as President Donald Trump halted new financial military aid to
April 27, 2026Global military spending rose 2.9% in 2025 despite a 7.5% decline in the United States as President Donald Trump halted new financial military aid to
April 27, 2026
The speaker of Russia's parliament, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, arrived in North Korea on Saturday to attend an event to commemorate Pyongyang's deployment of
April 25, 2026
At a Romanian base overlooking the Black Sea, camouflaged figures squinted up into the sky and drones whined far overhead - the final test of a
April 24, 2026
The Netherlands is facing the greatest threat to its national security since the end of World War Two, chiefly from Russia and China, against the
April 23, 2026
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan will make an official visit to London this week for talks on the wars in Iran and Ukraine, a Turkish diplomatic source said on
April 22, 2026
A Ukrainian drone attack on Russia's Black Sea port of Tuapse sparked a fire and killed at least one person, Russian officials said on Monday, only hours after a blaze was
April 20, 2026
A Russian overnight drone attack damaged port infrastructure in Ukraine's largest Danube river port Izmail and one drone strayed into Romanian territory, Ukrainian and Romanian
April 17, 2026
Hungary's foreign minister and his Russian counterpart discussed EU sanctions in an audio clip released by an investigative news outlet on Tuesday, days
March 31, 2026
The Russian Defence Ministry said on Wednesday that its forces had taken full control of the Luhansk region in eastern Ukraine, suggesting they had wrested control of a
April 01, 2026
Russia has launched a massive aerial attack on Ukraine, targeting civilian areas with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles
April 16, 2026
Russian strategic missile forces have conducted drills in Siberia involving camouflaged movements of Yars intercontinental ballistic missiles that are capable of delivering
April 02, 2026
Russian forces maintained a day-long barrage of drone strikes on Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city, on Thursday, injuring at least two people, local
April 03, 2026
U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner could travel to Kyiv in April, the Ukrainian president's top aide Kyrylo Budanov said on Saturday, amid efforts to revive peace
April 04, 2026
Russian attacks on Ukraine's southeast on Tuesday killed eight people and injured more than two dozen others, officials said, with Kyiv accusing Moscow of escalating strikes
April 07, 2026
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the spring and summer months would be difficult for Ukraine as it would face pressure on the battlefield and also
April 10, 2026
Russia and Ukraine have accused each other of violating a Kremlin-declared Easter ceasefire as Orthodox Christians gathered to celebrate the holiday
April 12, 2026
Oil prices stay high despite US temporarily lifting sanctions on Russian oil stranded at sea
March 13, 2026
Exclusive: Russia is giving Iran specific advice on drone tactics, Western intelligence source tells CNN
March 11, 2026
Russia and Ukraine have made competing claims about who is gaining ground, as Russian strikes keep hitting Ukrainian cities and U.S.-backed talks in Turkey were postponed
March 10, 2026
An anti-drone system developed by an American company and proven to work in Ukraine soon will head to the Middle East to help defend against Iranian drones
March 07, 2026
The State Department has expressed its displeasure over Ukraine's recent attacks on the Russian port of Novorossiysk that have impacted U.S. oil interests in Kazakhstan
February 24, 2026
CNN's Amanda Davies spoke to Ukrainian skeleton slider Vladyslav Heraskevych after he was disqualified for "refusing to adhere to" IOC guidelines banning his helmet featuring images of athletes killed during the war in Ukraine. He has appealed the decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
February 13, 2026
A Russian drone has struck a home in Ukraine's Kharkiv region in an attack that killed a father and his three small children
February 11, 2026
A Russian airstrike on a residential area in eastern Ukraine has killed one person and wounded two others
February 08, 2026
Russian authorities have detained a man suspected of shooting a deputy chief of Russia’s military intelligence agency in Moscow
February 08, 2026
President Donald Trump says he plans to lower tariffs on goods from India to 18%, from 25%, after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi agreed to stop buying Russian oil
February 02, 2026
Russian drone strike on bus in Ukraine kills 12 miners
February 01, 2026
These nets used to catch fish. Now they’re catching Russian drones
February 01, 2026
Officials in Ukraine say that a heavy Russian drone attack on Odesa has killed at least three people and wounded 23, including children and a pregnant woman
January 27, 2026
A Ukrainian delegation has arrived in the United States to discuss a U.S.-led diplomatic push to end the nearly 4-year-old war
January 17, 2026
Russia says any foreign forces in Ukraine would be ‘legitimate targets’, after UK and France pledge troops
January 08, 2026
Ukraine peace talks in Miami end with lingering questions over security guarantees and territory
December 07, 2025
China and Russia reached "broad consensus" on a range of issues during the Chinese foreign minister's trip to Moscow this week, amid a burst of diplomatic efforts to end the
December 03, 2025
President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed a decree granting visa-free access to Russia for up to 30 days for many categories of Chinese citizens, including tourists, business
December 01, 2025
As a U.S. envoy heads to Moscow to negotiate over a complex blueprint for peace in Ukraine, Russian Nobel Peace Prize winner Dmitry Muratov says a vital
December 01, 2025
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December 02, 2025
A U.S. military plane soared over Florida's Eglin Air Force Base earlier this month and released a drone made by the
November 27, 2025
The U.S.-backed 28-point peace plan to end the war in Ukraine, which became public last week, drew from a Russian-authored paper submitted to the Trump
November 26, 2025
Britain is still making plans for a multinational force in Ukraine after a ceasefire is agreed, Prime Minister Keir Starmer's spokesperson said on Tuesday.
November 25, 2025
Ukraine will continue to work with partners including the U.S. on peace proposals, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday, the second day of talks in Switzerland after Washington
November 24, 2025
The Kremlin said on Monday that it would wait to see how talks between the United States and Ukraine on a potential peace plan pan out, and would not be commenting on media reports
November 24, 2025
Western leaders said on Saturday that a peace plan proposed by the United States can be a basis for talks to end Russia's war in
November 22, 2025
Ukraine’s allies voice concern over US peace plan ahead of talks Sunday
November 22, 2025
When Russians look back at 2025, they might remember it as the year when the government took even tighter control of the internet
November 22, 2025
The leaders of Germany, France and Britain agreed with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in a phone call on Friday that Ukrainian forces must remain capable of defending the
November 21, 2025
The Kremlin said on Friday that around 5,000 Ukrainian troops were trapped on the eastern bank of the River Oskil, in Ukraine's eastern Kharkiv region.
November 21, 2025
Ukraine said on Friday its forces were holding defensive lines in the northern part of the embattled eastern city of Pokrovsk and were blocking attempts by Russian troops to advance
November 21, 2025
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November 19, 2025
Britain said it shares U.S.
November 19, 2025
Germany will expand its security infrastructure in space to better protect its interests in a sphere where countries are already competing for dominance, said the foreign and defence
November 19, 2025
Ukraine's military said on Tuesday it had attacked military targets in Russia with U.S.-supplied ATACMS missiles, calling it a "significant development."
November 18, 2025
President Alexander Stubb of Finland told The Associated Press that a ceasefire in Ukraine is unlikely before spring
November 16, 2025
The fog of war: Changing weather becomes a new player on the battlefield in Ukraine
November 15, 2025
U.S. private equity firm Carlyle is exploring options to buy Russian oil major Lukoil's foreign assets, three sources familiar with the situation
November 13, 2025
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview published late on Wednesday that he hoped Washington would take no actions liable to escalate the Ukraine conflict.
November 13, 2025
When Natalia Lipei pulls up her sleeve, the 66-year-old Ukrainian pensioner reveals a colourful tattoo: a winged sword, symbolising the air-assault unit her son Viktor served in before
November 12, 2025
Japan decried as "absolutely unacceptable" on Wednesday Russia's extension of an entry ban to 30 more citizens, among them a foreign ministry spokesperson, after Tokyo's sanctions
November 11, 2025