Can Europe’s New Military Spending Help Its Economies?
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Can Europe’s New Military Spending Help Its Economies?

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines From Brussels to Berlin, leaders across Europe are getting ready to spend hundreds of billions to rebuild their armies. The spending, they say, is necessary to prepare Europe for the dangers of a world where the United States no longer guarantees its security….

U.S. to Withdraw From Group Investigating Responsibility for Ukraine Invasion
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U.S. to Withdraw From Group Investigating Responsibility for Ukraine Invasion

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Justice Department has quietly informed European officials that the United States is withdrawing from a multinational group created to investigate leaders responsible for the invasion of Ukraine, including President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, according to people familiar with the situation. The…

Fear of Trump’s Tariffs Ripples Through France’s Champagne Region
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Fear of Trump’s Tariffs Ripples Through France’s Champagne Region

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines French Champagne producers do nearly a billion dollars’ worth of business with the United States every year. But on Friday in Épernay, the world capital of sparkling wine, the only number on anybody’s lips was 200. That was the percent tariff that President…

‘On the Tightrope’: Britain Tries to Bridge a Widening Trans-Atlantic Gap
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‘On the Tightrope’: Britain Tries to Bridge a Widening Trans-Atlantic Gap

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Five years after it left the European Union, Britain may have finally found a new role on the global stage — a gig that looks curiously like its old one. In the frantic few weeks since President Trump upended the trans-Atlantic alliance with…

Opinion | America Is Surrounded by Enemies … That We Created
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Opinion | America Is Surrounded by Enemies … That We Created

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Many years ago, I asked a friend who had been hired as a senior foreign policy official what he’d learned in government that he didn’t know beforehand. He replied: “I used to think policy-making was 75 percent about relationships. Now I realize it’s…

Europe Expected a Transactional Trump. It Got Something Else.
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Europe Expected a Transactional Trump. It Got Something Else.

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump is no fan of the European Union. He has repeatedly claimed that the bloc was created to “screw” America, has pledged to slap big tariffs on its cars, and this week enacted global steel and aluminum levies that are expected to…

A Europe in Emotional Shock Grapples With a New Era
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A Europe in Emotional Shock Grapples With a New Era

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines For decades a core objective of the Soviet Union was to “decouple” the United States from Europe. Decoupling, as it was called, would break the Western alliance that kept Soviet tanks from rolling across the Prussian plains. Now, in weeks, President Trump has…

America the Evil Mastermind? Not So Fast, Russians Are Told
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America the Evil Mastermind? Not So Fast, Russians Are Told

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Five weeks ago, Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, delivered a routine speech blasting the “hegemonic, egoistic” United States at the helm of the “collective West.” The worldview of the 74-year-old veteran diplomat has since undergone some head-spinning changes. In an interview on…

Trump’s Latest Tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China Could Be His Biggest Gamble
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Trump’s Latest Tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China Could Be His Biggest Gamble

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump made one of the biggest gambles of his presidency Tuesday by initiating sweeping tariffs with no clear rationale on imports from Canada, Mexico and China, triggering a trade war that risks undermining the United States economy. His actions have upended diplomatic…

Ukraine Races to Salvage U.S. Alliance After Trump Halts Aid
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Ukraine Races to Salvage U.S. Alliance After Trump Halts Aid

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines A day after President Trump ordered the suspension of American military assistance, Ukrainian diplomats and politicians scrambled on Tuesday to find a way to salvage their alliance with Washington while the war weary nation prepared for the possibility that it will have to…