Russia Pushes in Donetsk as Strain Mounts
Russia Presses in Donetsk as Questions Grow Over Its Staying Power Russian forces have stepped up attacks in eastern Ukraine, renewing pressure on the Donetsk region’s remaining Ukrainian strongholds even…
Canada Turns Tariff Fight Into a Sovereignty Battle
Canada on Tuesday formally opened a new front in its deepening trade conflict with the United States, announcing retaliatory tariffs on about C$27.6 billion, or roughly $20 billion, worth of…
Washington Escalates Its Iran Pressure Campaign
Washington Broadens Its Iran Campaign, Testing China and the Strait of Hormuz The Trump administration’s pressure campaign against Iran has entered a new and more consequential phase, shifting from the…
Kyiv Rejects Wartime Vote as Britain Expands Missile Support
Kyiv Rejects Wartime Vote as Britain Deepens Missile Support KYIV — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy moved forcefully this weekend to shut down calls for a presidential election during wartime, warning that…
Washington Opens a New Economic Front Against Iran
Washington is preparing to open a new front in its confrontation with Iran, moving beyond months of military brinkmanship into what American officials are describing as the most aggressive economic…
U.S.-Canada Trade Truce Collapses Into New Tariff War
The fragile cease-fire in the trade dispute between the United States and Canada collapsed on Friday, reopening one of North America’s most consequential economic fights and pushing two of the…
North Korea Fires Missiles After Trump Scales Back Drills
North Korea fired about 10 short-range ballistic missiles into the sea on Thursday, South Korea’s military said, a display of force that came just one day after President Trump moved…
Kyiv’s Wartime Election Taboo Breaks
A Wartime Taboo Breaks in Kyiv Ukraine’s political debate, long compressed by the demands of survival, widened sharply on Tuesday when the country’s recently dismissed former defense minister, Mykhailo Fedorov,…
U.S. Drill Cut Stirs Anxiety in South Korea
The United States and South Korea have cut short one of their most important annual military exercises, a move that has stirred unease in Seoul even as it appears to…
Trump Delays Canada Tariffs as Tentative Trade Deal Emerges
A threatened rupture in North American trade was put off, at least for now, late Tuesday after President Trump said he would delay by three days a steep new tariff…