Rifle through Turkey’s car sales report for January and in the column next to Tesla’s name, you’ll find a big, fat zero. A lot has since changed. This June, Turkey nearly eclipsed the UK as the brand’s third-largest market in the world for the month. Tesla sold over 7,200 vehicles in the Eurasian country, within striking distance of the…
Lithuania’s Defense Ministry said on Monday that it had pulled a U.S. military vehicle out of a deep and muddy bog, nearly a week after the American soldiers riding it went missing. The vehicle was pulled out of the bog on Sunday night, the Defense Ministry said on social media. It did not provide an…
More than a decade before Russia’s armed forces poured over the border into Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin stood before world leaders and delivered a long, icy speech demanding a radical overhaul of the world order. “We have reached that decisive moment when we must seriously think about the architecture of global security,” Putin said in…
Europe’s defense industry is on course for an extended upswing, as investors rally to take positions ahead of share price and guidance increases, analysts said. European leaders have signaled more readiness on providing Ukraine with security guarantees should a ceasefire deal be reached, and expanding their defense capabilities amid fears the U.S. could decrease its…
In 2017, Chinese President Xi Jinping told the faithful at the five-yearly Communist Party congress that belief in people’s hearts would give strength to China as a nation. “When people have faith, the country has strength and the Chinese nationality has hope,” he said at the time. The phrase has been cited again and again…