A war in the Middle East probably wasn’t what Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney had in mind in Davos earlier this year, when he made a pitch for the world’s so-called middle powers to join together in a world defined by increasingly aggressive military juggernauts. A satellite view of smoke billowing at a Saudi Aramco…
For a world shaken by war in Ukraine and the Middle East, there was a faintly reassuring line in the latest Annual Threat Assessment by America’s intelligence agencies. “Chinese leaders do not currently plan to execute an invasion of Taiwan in 2027,” said the report, released on March 18th. The new phrase was striking because…
WASHINGTON—President Trump on Tuesday said he had canceled all meetings with Iran’s leaders, entreated Iranians protesting their government to overthrow the regime and declared that “HELP IS ON ITS WAY.” The U.S. president, who appeared to have taken the country to the cusp of war, was pulling back from a military intervention as long as…
Washington: United States President Donald Trump warned that the United States could stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria if the country fails to act against the killings of Christians. Trump instructed the US’ Department of War to prepare, warning any US attack would be “fast, vicious, and sweet,” and told the Nigerian government to…
FOR TWO decades Roosevelt Roads, a sprawling American naval base in Puerto Rico, stood abandoned. Now the roar of fighter jets and whirring of helicopters have returned to fill the humid air. Over the past month air-force personnel have laboured to restore the airstrip’s control tower and decrepit infrastructure, while hulking cargo planes ferry in…
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said it was important to make a migrant returns deal with France work, in order to control the number of those arriving, as U.S. President Donald Trump urged him to use military force if necessary. “You have people coming in, and I told the Prime Minister I would stop it,”…