The arms trade is a staple of the US-Saudi relationship. Between 2000 and 2017, 8 percent of all US arms sales went to the kingdom, making it the number two destination for American made weaponry. But the dependency doesn’t just run one way. Above is a look at who Saudi Arabia turns to when importing its arms.
What happens when you ask artificial intelligence to create a video of gilded Trump statues (straight out ofTurkmenistan) and new Trump Hotels (straight out of Atlantic City) featuring an up-tempo, pro-Trump track (straight from the J6 Prison Choir’s club remix album)? You get the US president’s Truth Social post advertising his postwar Gaza proposal, of course.
Last November, a Romanian election generated shock headlines across Europe when an obscure pro-Russia, anti-vaccine populist named Călin Georgescu finished first in the initial round of voting. The Romanian government annulled the election result, blaming Russian influence but failing to prove there was interference. On Wednesday, police detained Georgescu as part of an investigation into possible violations of an anti-extremism law. What lies ahead for Romanian democracy?
“Those same geopolitical tensions that we see in physical space certainly are playing out in digital space as well,” says Anne Neuberger, former US Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technologies.
The White House announces significant changes to the White House press pool on Feb. 25, 2025.
The White House said Tuesday that it will take control of choosing the journalists allowed to participate in the White House press pool – a rotating group of journalists given access to briefings and the ability to ask the president questions — tightening the administration’s control over the press.
Replacing hundreds of thousands of US troops and other defense equipment would be a huge fiscal challenge for the EU.
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The House of Representatives narrowly approved a Republican-led budget resolution on Tuesday with a 217-215 vote, mostly along party lines.
The Taiwanese Coast Guard seized a Chinese-crewed cargo vessel Tuesday on suspicion of it intentionally severing subsea communications cables between Taiwan and its Penghu Islands.
2: In July 2021, a homophobic mob beat a gay man to death outside a nightclub in A Coruña, a port city in Spain’s northwest, as passersby refused to intervene while some filmed the attack on their phones.