Europe

The next major transformation in warfare may not be defined by the introduction of another fighter aircraft, missile system or surveillance platform. It may instead be determined by the growing ability of machines to identify, select and engage targets with diminishing human intervention. Artificial intelligence is already transforming …

Angela Smith The prospect of renewed negotiations between Russia and Ukraine presents an important diplomatic opportunity, but it also exposes the fundamental difficulty of ending a war in which the parties continue to disagree over territory, sovereignty and the future European security architecture. The planned United States-mediated trilateral …

Key points The Democratic congressional victory could strengthen support for Ukraine, but does not guarantee new military assistance. Washington is pursuing negotiations while the battlefield remains active. Europe must have a stronger role in security guarantees and reconstruction. Russia may seek to exploit differences between Washington and European …

Ukraine’s war is now 4½ years old, and the diplomacy around it has been a stop-start affair. Technical-level talks are planned for the first half of November in Abu Dhabi, following a rift between Washington and Kyiv and moves by Trump seen as favouring Russia. Europe should read …

The November elections will test more than the domestic standing of the American president. They will reveal how far the United States can reconcile its international responsibilities with a changing political environment and an increasingly multipolar world. The international system is undergoing a period of strategic transformation in …

Geostrategic Media Desk Team Key Features Russia launched 134 drones overnight, including jet-powered ones, and hit energy facilities in the Kyiv, Zhytomyr and Vinnytsia regions; emergency power cuts were introduced in Kyiv. Ukraine’s Air Force says it downed 105 of the drones, but strikes landed at 20 locations, …

Geostrategic Media Desk Team Key Features Iran’s security chief Mohsen Rezaei says Tehran is debating whether to lift its longstanding ban on nuclear weapons if hostilities resume, though no decision has been taken. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says President Trump has not decided on new strikes and …

Geostrategic Media Desk Team Key Features The State Department approved the possible sale of 500 Patriot PAC-3 MSE interceptors to Ukraine for $2.1 billion, funded by allies rather than the US. Russia says it agreed to resume US-mediated talks but insists battlefield conditions will decide when; at the …

New commitments at the Yerevan biodiversity summit have not resolved the central problem: the resources needed to implement global nature-protection targets remain far below ambition.