Smaller companies in Canada are racing to secure government contracts as Ottawa opens its checkbook for military spending in the face of what its government sees as a risk of a war with Russia compounded by an unreliable ally to its south under President Donald Trump.
The CIA, the U.S. intelligence service, was aware of the Ukrainian plot to blow up the Nord Stream pipelines to cut Europeans off from inexpensive Russian gas months before the September 2022 sabotage attack, according to a report in Der Spiegel, the German outlet.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appeared to throw cold water on any possibility for peace with Russia last week when he told reporters that the Ukrainian public would never allow him to give up land in the eastern Donbas that is not yet in Moscow’s control.
Investors are raising concerns about the possibility that London is trying to increase its borrowing limits to help fund its militarization in response to what its government sees as a heightened risk from Russia.
Bangladesh held its first nation-wide election since the fall of the government in 2024 that was triggered by Gen-Z and voted in favor of the Nationalist Party with a mandate to carry out policies to benefit the country’s young population.
Germany has announced that it will spend hundreds of billions of dollars to upgrade its military in what Berlin sees as a threat from Russia, compounded by an unreliable partner in the U.S., but critics say the spending is largely going to antiquated systems that benefit arms manufacturers at the expense of security.
Canada plans to provide a jolt to its economy by increasing military spending and rewarding domestic companies with contracts that it believes will spur job growth over the coming years, according to a new report.
President Donald Trump’s approach to foreign policy has countries increasingly seeing the U.S. as a security risk, according to a newly released Munich Security Index.
Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s prime minister, won a snap election on Sunday, drawing praise from the Trump administration because of her hawkish approach to China.
Mark Rutte, the head of NATO, said last week that troops from NATO will be deployed “instantly” to Ukraine if a peace deal is ever hashed out between Kyiv and Moscow, just as the war approaches its fourth anniversary.