Stocks rise at the start of a holiday-shortened week
Stocks rose Monday on Wall Street to open what’s expected to be a relatively calm holiday week. The…
Senior LDP official hints at need for discussion of non-nuclear principles
Japan must have renewed discussions about the country’s long-held three non-nuclear principles, a senior Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)…
U.S. appears to pour cold water on idea of Japan acquiring nukes
The U.S. has appeared to pour cold water on the idea of Japan acquiring its own nukes, after…
Much talk and little action at Gaza truce coordination center
Kiryat Gat, Israel – Launched after the Israel-Hamas ceasefire to monitor the truce and facilitate the flow of…
Israel’s misstep and the resilience of Iran’s strategic autonomy
MADRID – Few disclosures in West Asia carry as much weight as an admission of intelligence failure, particularly…
Gov. Reynolds, Iowa National Guard leader confirm two Iowans killed in Syria
Two Iowa National Guard soldiers killed, three wounded in ISIS attack in Syria AND THAT BREAKING NEWS COMES…
U.S. briefly withheld some intelligence from Israel during Biden era
WASHINGTON – U.S. intelligence officials temporarily suspended sharing some key information with Israel during U.S. President Joe Biden’s…
China’s heavy-handed attack on Takaichi is backfiring
After Sanae Takaichi answered a hypothetical question on Taiwan in parliament last month, China’s response was explosive, crudely…
German leader says U.S. strategy shows the need for more European security independence
BERLIN — German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Tuesday that the Trump administration’s new national security strategy underscores the need for…
FBI warns about AI scammers at top of naughty list this holiday
Dec. 8 (UPI) — The FBI warned Americans Monday to guard against holiday scams as fraudsters weaponize artificial…
Alarm grows in Europe over what is seen as Trump’s ‘betrayal’ of Ukraine
WASHINGTON — A renewed push by the Trump administration to settle Russia’s war in Ukraine is jolting European governments that…
Trump’s pardon of a convicted trafficker undermines drug war narrative
MEXICO CITY — Juan Orlando Hernández, a convicted drug trafficker who prosecutors said “paved a cocaine superhighway” to the United…