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EU gas storage facilities are around 65% full, with no further action needed for the time being, a European Commission spokesperson said Friday. Anna-Kaisa Itkonen told reporters that the bloc’s Gas Coordination Group assessed the situation Thursday and determined that existing measures were sufficient to ensure gas supplies …

Dr. Ju Hyung Kim Recent footage from Yemen should be taken seriously by South Korea’s defense industry. In August, Houthi media released a video claiming that a Rajum multirotor drone dropped a munition on Saudi Arabia’s M1A2S Abrams tank near Marib. The ammunition appeared to hit the rear …

Global food prices rose in August to their highest level since late 2022 as disruptions linked to the Russia-Ukraine war put renewed pressure on grain markets and Black Sea exports, according to UN data and the Polish Economic Institute (PIE). The UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s Food Price …

At first glance, a 0.1 percent drop in the EU’s total market production index and a 0.2 percent decline in the euro area for June 2026 might appear trivial—a rounding error, a statistical hiccup, something for economists to debate and policymakers to dismiss. But that would be a …

Germany’s right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party won Sunday’s state election in Saxony-Anhalt with a record 43.8% of the vote but fell short of a majority to govern alone, while Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) slumped to a historic low of 17.2%, according to preliminary …

Pakistan on Wednesday vowed to “strive for dialogue” between the US and Iran to end their months-long war despite the latest escalations. “Despite recent escalations, we remain hopeful and continue to strive for dialogue and diplomacy,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tahir Andrabi told reporters in Islamabad. The statement came …

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has become the world’s largest regional association, bringing together countries whose combined population accounts for about half of the world’s population, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday. “The SCO today is in fact the largest regional organization in the world, where half …

Israeli Security Minister Israel Katz said Monday that he had instructed the occupation army to prepare for a “full-scale war” against the Palestinian Authority’s leadership, security forces, affiliated bodies, and what he described as “offensive infrastructure” in the occupied West Bank. Katz said the instructions were intended to …

For decades, Europe’s overseas territories have been treated as quaint historical curiosities—leftovers of defunct empires, tropical islands for holidaymakers, or icy outposts for climate scientists. But in an era defined by predatory revisionism, shrinking rules-based order, and the return of great-power competition, these territories have become something far …