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Germany is skeptical of common borrowing for defense; Poland wants it.

Paris, meanwhile, believes that providing weapons to Armenia reduces the likelihood of further attacks from Azerbaijan.

Nicosia and Tel Aviv have stepped up defense cooperation in recent years.

Illicit diversion has so far been small-scale and opportunistic, according to the Swiss-based Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime.

The ban soured relations with Israel.

The first batch of 640,000 doses of the adapted vaccine will be shipped as early as next week.

Helsinki wants allies to agree to drop restrictions on Kyiv, while raising military aid.

Sweden will give all of its PBV 302 armored tracked personnel carriers.

Even if they aren’t yet, things could soon get nastier as Brussels’ investigation into Chinese electric vehicles nears its conclusion.

The war in Ukraine has shifted thinking — both among politicians and the public — on the need to spend more on defense.

Faculty has emerged as the UK’s homegrown champion in AI safety — though some question its deep political links.

Two island nations bookending the Eurasian continent are joining forces to combat the growing threat from neighboring autocracies.

Changing the defense ministry leadership signals that Russia’s president is “preparing for many more years of war.”

Kyiv wants to free itself from relying on its allies for arms and ammunition, but needs cash to do so.

Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov is sitting in Moscow’s Lefortovo prison, and that spells trouble for his boss Sergei Shoigu.

The EU is accelerating its crackdown on what it sees as Beijing’s unfair support for companies that undermine European rivals.

The European Commission has launched a probe into how Beijing grants public contracts for medical devices.

Move will see Britain spend 2.5 percent of GDP on defense by end of the decade as Downing Street urges ‘other major European NATO economies to follow.’

It comes just weeks after China was named as the perpetrator of a series of cyberattacks on MPs.

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