China’s Delicate Economic Balancing Act
China Tries to Balance Support, Discipline and Defiance China delivered a complicated message to investors and trading partners this week: the economy may be finding some footing, but Beijing is…
Burnham Opens Britain’s Europe Debate as France Migration Deal Falters
Prime Minister Andy Burnham has opened the most expansive debate yet over Britain’s future in Europe just as one of the government’s most closely watched post-Brexit migration arrangements appears poised…
Russia Targets Ukraine’s Lifelines
Russia Broadens Its Pressure Campaign on Ukraine’s Nerve Centers Russia has stepped up a campaign against the systems that allow Ukraine to function beyond the battlefield, striking data centers and…
U.S.-Iran Talks Resume Amid Public Denials and Private Signals
Diplomacy Resumes, but Terms Remain Elusive The haze surrounding renewed nuclear diplomacy between the United States and Iran thickened on Tuesday, as Tehran said it had received an official American…
White House AI Push Faces Safety Backlash
A White House AI Push Meets a Growing Safety Revolt President Trump gathered some of the country’s most powerful technology executives at the White House on Tuesday and unveiled what…
Australia Hardens Its Stance on A.I.
Australia’s widening backlash against artificial intelligence took on a more concrete political and economic shape on Sunday, as one of the world’s most closely watched A.I. companies declined to attend…
A Reckoning on A.I. Agent Safety
A Wider Reckoning on A.I. Agents The fallout from a series of rogue artificial intelligence agent incidents is spreading well beyond the original breaches, pushing one of the industry’s most…
After the Pageantry, a Modest U.S.-China Trade Truce
The Trump-Xi summit in Washington was staged with all the ceremony of a state visit, but in the days since the motorcades left and the toasts ended, attention has shifted…
Arrests at RAF Fairford Raise Fears of Iran-Linked Plot
British counterterrorism police arrested five men after what officials described as a suspected bomb plot involving RAF Fairford, a Royal Air Force station in western England used by American forces,…
Trump Rejects Iran Strait Offer, Sending Oil Higher
Oil prices climbed and fears of a wider regional conflict deepened on Monday after President Trump rejected an Iranian proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within a week, hardening…