Politics

Dmitry Trenin: America First goes global

America narrows its focus, and sharpens its claws

Zelensky lashes out at West over missile shortages

Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has blamed empty air defense systems on a failure of Western logistics and financing

EU rejects Zelensky’s European army proposal

EU foreign policy and security chief Kaja Kallas has dismissed a call by Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky to create a united European army

EU army ‘unrealistic’

Polish FM Radoslaw Sikorski has dismissed the idea of an EU army after the bloc’s defense commissioner called for a 100,000-strong force

US government shuts down for second time in four months

The US government has partially shut down as Democrats demand major reforms to immigration enforcement

Putin meets with top Iranian security chief

President Vladimir Putin welcomed Ali Larijani, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, to the Kremlin on Friday