THE HAGUE, Netherlands — France and the United Kingdom, Europe’s two nuclear-armed powers, have agreed to coordinate their atomic arsenals in response to major threats against the continent.The decision comes as part of a series of defense agreements signed by French President Emmanuel Macron and U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Thursday. While nuclear coordination is set to deepen under the agreement, as is nuclear research cooperation between France and Britain, the document makes it clear that the atomic arsenals ...

China has agreed to sign a Southeast Asian treaty banning nuclear weapons, Malaysia’s and China’s foreign ministers confirmed, in a move that seeks to shield the area from rising global security tensions amid the threat of imminent United States tariffs.The pledge from Beijing was welcomed as diplomats on Thursday gathered for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) foreign ministers’ meeting, where US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is also due to meet regional counterparts and Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov.Malaysia’s ...

The United States has begun resending weapons to Ukraine, a week after the Pentagon said some deliveries should be paused, the Ukrainian president's office confirmed Thursday.At the beginning of July, the Pentagon halted[1] shipments of some air defense missiles and other precision munitions to Ukraine because of worries that U.S. weapons stockpiles had fallen too low.The decision to withhold some military aid came as Ukraine faced some of the largest Russian attacks since the beginning of the war[2].On Wednesday night, ...

Ukraine says it has arrested a Chinese father and son on suspicion of spying on its Neptune anti-ship missile programme, a key part of Kyiv’s growing domestic arms industry that is critical to its defence against Russian forces.The announcement by Ukraine’s security service (SBU) follows assertions by Kyiv in recent months that Beijing, which has sought to project an image of neutrality, is helping the Kremlin’s war effort.Counterintelligence officials arrested a 24-year-old former student in Kyiv after they provided him ...

US and Ukrainian leaders discuss defence capabilities on call after Trump ‘disappointed’ by conversation with Russia’s Putin.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he agreed with his US counterpart, Donald Trump, to work to strengthen Ukraine’s air defences, as concerns mounted in Kyiv over US military aid deliveries.The two leaders had a “very important and fruitful conversation” by phone on Friday, Zelenskyy said.“We spoke about opportunities in air defence and agreed that we will work together to strengthen protection of our skies,” he ...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) -China will sign up to a Southeast Asian treaty banning nuclear weapons in the region as soon as all documentation is ready, Malaysia’s foreign minister said on Thursday.The Southeast Asian Nuclear Weapons Free Zone, or SEANWFZ, has been in force since 1997, limiting the use of nuclear power by members to peaceful purposes, such as power generation.ASEAN’s objective is for the world’s nuclear powers, including China, the United States, Britain, Russia and France, to sign the treaty ...

With an album release on the way, one of the Inland Northwest’s own is making a homecoming with a pair of performances.Izzy Burns was born and raised in Moscow, Idaho. It was here that she spent the first few years of her life essentially voiceless after falling ill with pneumonia and needing a tracheostomy (as well as several other airway surgeries) in order to breathe.“As a baby and a little kid, having surgeries and things like that, not being able ...

US President Donald Trump on Thursday signalled strong support for a sweeping new sanctions bill aimed at pressuring Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the ongoing war in Ukraine. The proposed legislation, the Sanctioning Russia Act of 2025[1], includes a controversial provision to impose a 500% tariff on imports from countries such as India and China that continue purchasing Russian energy products.“I’m looking. It’s totally my option. They pass it totally at my option, and to terminate totally at my ...

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ADVERTISEMENTArmenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev are meeting on Thursday in Abu Dhabi to discuss next steps in finalising the peace agreement, their offices confirmed. This is the first formal bilateral meeting between the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan since they agreed on the draft text of the peace agreement, following nearly four decades of conflict. The results of this meeting will ultimately shape the future of the South Caucasus not only because of what the two leaders ...