Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich will remain jailed on espionage charges until at least late June. A Moscow court on Tuesday rejected his appeal that sought to end his pretrial detention.
Russia threatened to step up strikes on Ukraine in response to the U.S. vote to provide new military aid to the government in Kyiv.
The chance to earn and wear the German badge — one of only a few foreign military decorations authorized for U.S. troops — drew more than 300 service members to Ramstein Aquatic Center to demonstrate their physical stamina, speed and strength on land and water.
A man who works for a German far-right lawmaker in the European Parliament has been arrested on suspicion of spying for China, authorities said Tuesday.
President Joe Biden told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday the U.S. will send badly needed air defense weaponry once the Senate approves a massive national security aid package that includes more than $60 billion for Ukraine.
European Union foreign and defense ministers secured a political agreement on Monday to impose new sanctions on Iran over its attack on Israel.
Construction on the new U.S. military hospital near Ramstein Air Base appears to be on schedule, but German government figures indicate that the cost has ballooned past earlier estimates with three years to go.
Poland’s president says the NATO member would be ready to host the nuclear weapons of the military alliance’s other members in response to Russia’s moving its nuclear weapons to neighboring Belarus.
Approximately 100,000 people from nearly every country in Europe were imprisoned at Flossenbürg between 1938 and 1945, and 30,000 perished.
Global military spending reached a record high of $2.4 billion last year, driven by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and tensions in other parts of the world, a Sweden-based think tank said Monday.
European Union countries possessing Patriot air defense systems appeared hesitant on Monday to give any to Ukraine, which is desperately seeking at least seven of the missile batteries to help fend off Russian air attacks.
Europe is the fastest-warming continent and its temperatures are rising at roughly twice the global average, two top climate monitoring organizations reported.
Three people suspected of spying for China and facilitating the transfer of information on technology with potential military uses were arrested in Germany on Monday.
Approval by the U.S. House of Representatives of a $61 billion package for Ukraine puts the country a step closer to getting an infusion of new firepower.
Ukrainian leaders and analysts say the long-awaited $61 billion military aid package — including $13.8 billion for Ukraine to buy weapons — will help slow Russia’s incremental advances in the war’s third year — but that more will likely be needed for Kyiv to regain the offensive.
Ukrainian officials expressed gratitude and relief after the U.S. House of Representatives approved $60.8 billion in aid to Ukraine, overcoming months of intense Republican opposition to fund urgently needed weapons for the country’s military.
The Pentagon can get weapons moving to Ukraine quickly because it has a network of storage sites in the U.S. and Europe. Those sites already hold some of the munitions and air defense components that Kyiv desperately needs to fight Russia.
Chad called on the U.S. to withdraw its troops from an army base in the central African country that’s one of the West’s few remaining outposts to fight a roiling jihadist insurgency in the region.
