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Good morning. This is Mared Gwyn, writing in the early hours from Brussels. Even earlier this morning, EU lawmakers and diplomats agreed to implement the controversial trade agreement concluded last summer with the US, after hours of late-night talks in Strasbourg. Our trade reporter Peggy Corlin writes that despite the breakthrough, which is set to…
From artificial intelligence to robotics, China is beating Western democracies in research output on 37 out of 44 technological areas deemed critical for economic growth and military power over the coming decades, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) said in a recently released report. By often producing more than five times as many highly cited research…
Boris Pistorius voiced the necessity for the military to become ‘war-capable’ in light of potential Russian threats Germany’s defense minister on Thursday announced a plan to streamline and reorganize the country’s military command as part of efforts to make the armed forces of NATO’s most populous European member “war-capable.” Chancellor Olaf Scholz set in motion…
NATO chief Jen Stoltenberg warned troops “will take all necessary actions to maintain a safe and secure environment for all citizens in Kosovo.” NATO said on Tuesday it will send more troops to northern Kosovo to help quell violent protests, following clashes with ethnic Serbs that wounded 30 peacekeepers. “We have decided to deploy 700…
Fifty of the more than 300 students kidnapped from a Nigerian Catholic school on Friday have escaped and been reunited with their parents, according to the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and the Catholic church. But about 253 kidnapped students as well as 12 staff members and teachers are still being held captive, CAN chairman…
A gun-toting teenage student at a Christian school in Madison Wis., shot dead another teen student and a teacher Monday morning, police said. Six more people were injured — including two students who were critically hurt with “life-threatening” wounds, authorities said. The shooter was found dead at the scene, authorities said. The gunfire broke out just…