Fri 21 February 2025: French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday evening urged Europeans to increase defense investments to ensure their own security. “We should spend more and spend better on European defense, making swift decisions at both national and European levels to enhance our autonomy and strength, because our security is at stake,” Macron said […]
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Fri 21 February 2025: US President Donald Trump reiterated his desire to absorb Canada into the US as its 51st state while stating his determination to take back the Panama Canal. “I think Canada, you know, they’re gonna have to pay tariffs on automobiles, lumber and oil and gas, etcetera, and they get 95% of […]
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Wed 19 February 2025: The Pentagon is expected to begin layoffs this week as part of a broader cost-saving initiative, according to a report Tuesday. The Washington Post, citing five people familiar with the matter, said the Trump administration has instructed defense agencies to submit a list of their probationary employees by the end of […]
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Fri 21 February 2025: Russia will not accept European peacekeepers nor British troops on Ukrainian soil, the Russian ambassador to the UK said Thursday. “It is premature to talk about concessions as part of a peace deal,” Andrey Vladimirovich Kelin told the BBC. “I find that the British establishment is now in a state of […]
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Fri 21 February 2025: Kilauea, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, has been erupting on and off for nearly two months since it . The eruption has been taking place at the volcano’s summit crater inside Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. No residential areas have been threatened by lava. Kīlauea is known for its frequent eruptions, which […]
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Thu 20 February 2025: A new study published in Nature finds ice is melting at a ‘concerning’ rate, with repercussions for sea-level rise. Ice loss from the world’s glaciers has accelerated over the past decade, a first-of-its-kind global assessment has found, warning that melting may be faster than previously expected in the coming years and […]
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Thu 20 February 2025: Elon Musk’s companies gained significant value in the stock markets following Donald Trump’s presidential election victory in the US. Musk, one of Trump’s biggest financial supporters, donated more than $130 million to the Trump election campaign last year. Trump’s policies, such as promising to make the US the crypto capital, supported […]
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Thu 20 February 2025: US President Donald Trump on Wednesday again pushed for US control of Greenland, citing what he called security concerns. “We very need Greenland from the standpoint of national security and international security, we have to do something with Greenland,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One, as reported by Forbes Breaking […]
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Wed 19 February 2025: The United Kingdom has confirmed for the first time that British Special Forces rejected the resettlement applications of over 2,000 Afghan commandos who served alongside the British military for two decades. According to a report by the BBC, the Ministry of Defence appeared to confirm that Special Forces officers rejected all 2,022 […]
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Wed 19 February 2025: Only 90 of the 157 stranded marine animals appear to still be alive as rescue teams race against the clock to save them. More than 150 false killer whales are stranded on a beach in the state of Tasmania, with rescue teams now scrambling to save those still alive, Australian environment […]
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