Biden’s last UNGA speech comes as wars rage in Middle East, Ukraine

Biden’s last UNGA speech comes as wars rage in Middle East, Ukraine

U.S. President Joe Biden addresses the 78th Session of the U.N. General Assembly in New York City, U.S., September 19, 2023.  Brendan Mcdermid | Reuters President Joe Biden will attempt to square the diplomatic achievements and goals of his presidency with the grim reality of wars in the Middle East, Ukraine and Sudan during a … Read more

Bipartisan national security group endorses Harris over Trump

Bipartisan national security group endorses Harris over Trump

US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris boards Air Force Two at John Murtha Johnstown-Cambria Airport in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, on September 13, 2024.  Drew Angerer | AFP | Getty Images More than 700 former national security and military officials endorsed Kamala Harris for president over Donald Trump in the 2024 election in an … Read more

Risk of Russia using nuclear weapon early in Ukraine war

Risk of Russia using nuclear weapon early in Ukraine war

CIA Director Bill Burns testifies next to Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines during a House (Select) Intelligence Committee hearing on diversity in the intelligence community, on Capitol Hill in Washington, October 27, 2021. Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters CIA Director William Burns believed there was a real risk in the fall of 2022 that Russia … Read more

Sustainable investors appear more comfortable with defense stocks

Sustainable investors appear more comfortable with defense stocks

CEO of Swedish defence and security company Saab, Micael Johansson, speaks during the presentation of Saab’s interim report on February 9, 2024 in Stockholm. Jessica Gow | Afp | Getty Images Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine has resulted in a profound shift in the way defense stocks are viewed by mission-driven fund managers, according to … Read more

UN nuclear watchdog chief pushes back on Moscow’s calls for objectivity after Kursk plant visit

UN nuclear watchdog chief pushes back on Moscow’s calls for objectivity after Kursk plant visit

The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog has pushed back against Moscow’s calls for further objectivity, following an inspection at the nuclear facility in the embattled Russian region of Kursk. Last week, Russia accused Ukraine of attempting a drone strike at the Kursk nuclear plant during a lightning cross-border incursion that has been under way … Read more

Russia rains missile, drone attack on Ukraine, day after energy infrastructure strike

Russia rains missile, drone attack on Ukraine, day after energy infrastructure strike

Ukrainian soldiers prepare a vehicle adapted to fire helicopter shells on Aug. 19, 2024.  Anadolu | Anadolu | Getty Images Waves of Russian drones and missiles assailed Ukraine on Tuesday and killed at least five people, Ukrainian authorities said, in the second day of Moscow’s bolstered aerial attacks against its war-torn neighbor. Ukraine’s Air Force … Read more

Ukraine carries out one of largest-ever drone attacks on Moscow

Ukraine carries out one of largest-ever drone attacks on Moscow

Ukrainian soldiers prepare a vehicle adapted to fire helicopter shells as the Russia-Ukraine war continues in the direction of Toretsk, Ukraine, Aug. 19, 2024.  Anadolu | Anadolu | Getty Images Ukraine carried out one of the largest-ever drone attacks against Moscow on Wednesday, as Kyiv continues to launch counter-offensives on Russian soil. Russia’s Defense Ministry … Read more

Ukraine unleashes drone attack on Russian airfield

Ukraine unleashes drone attack on Russian airfield

Ukrainian drones struck a key military airfield in Russia’s Lipetsk region, forcing authorities to declare a state of emergency in another Russian region this week in the face of Kyiv’s ongoing cross-border offensive. Ukrainian forces targeted the airfield in Lipetsk — roughly 300 kilometers (186 miles) from the border with Ukraine — on Thursday night, … Read more

Kamala Harris, dozens of lawmakers sit out Netanyahu Congress speech

Kamala Harris, dozens of lawmakers sit out Netanyahu Congress speech

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Jerusalem, February 18, 2024.  Ronen Zvulun | Reuters Vice President Kamala Harris and more than 30 Capitol Hill lawmakers are not planning to attend Israeli Prime Minister … Read more

U.S.-China tensions are not a ‘new Cold War’: Bilahari Kausikan

U.S.-China tensions are not a ‘new Cold War’: Bilahari Kausikan

NEW YORK, NY – SEPTEMBER 19: AMB. Bilahari Kausikan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Singapore speaks at The 2017 Concordia Annual Summit at Grand Hyatt New York on September 19, 2017 in New York City. Paul Morigi | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images While some may characterize tensions between the U.S. and China as … Read more