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“The decisions we have taken in Madrid,” North Atlantic Treaty Organisation secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg said as a summit of the alliance’s members closed on June 30, “will ensure that our alliance continues to preserve peace, prevent conflict,...

As I write this, BBC reports that British foreign secretary Liz Truss is “urgently” investigating reports of a chemical weapons attack in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol. The US Department of Defence finds the reports “deeply concerning”. Usually when...

After weeks of unsuccessfully attempting to either bully Russia’s Vladimir Putin into submission or bait him into war, United States president Joe Biden may finally be looking for a face-saving exit from of the Ukraine “crisis” of his own making. Reu...

Facebook, USA Today reports, “is asking some US users whether they may have been exposed to extremist content, or if they are worried that someone they know might be becoming an extremist”. The pop-ups are part of something called The Redirect Initia...

On May 23, a fighter jet intercepted Ryanair Flight 4978 as it was about to exit Belarussian airspace en route from Athens, Greece, to Vilnius, Lithuania. Citing a supposed bomb threat — apparently contrived by regime agents on board the flight — Bel...

On May 8, my wife and I pulled into a local gas station and filled the family car’s tank. It wasn't intended as a smart move, nor did it result from a premonition. It was just dumb luck. Within 24 hours, we were driving past gas stations with yellow ...

In February 2020, United States president Donald Trump announced a peace deal with the Taliban, giving American forces 15 months to get out of Afghanistan. Nearly a year later, with the withdrawal nearly complete and only 2,500 US Armed Forces member...

On March 29, the Libertarian Party of Kentucky issued a tweet that aroused considerable controversy — not least among partisan Libertarians themselves: "Are the vaccine passports going to be yellow, shaped like a star, and sewn on our clothes?" ...

Sooner or later, absent some kind of mass-extinction event, humankind will establish itself there: on the Moon. On Mars. Among the asteroids. Someday, even on planets orbiting distant stars. There isn’t — or at least shouldn’t be — anything controver...