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Hard Numbers: New records set in global defense spending and journalist deaths, Danes joke about buying California, Japan may u-turn on nuclear energy
February 12, 2025
Russian Yars intercontinental ballistic missile launcher takes part in the Victory Day military parade general rehearsal on the Red Square in Moscow, Russia, on May 5, 2024.
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Hard Numbers: New records set in global defense spending and journalist deaths, Danes joke about buying California, Japan may u-turn on nuclear energy
February 12, 2025
Russia's Su-57 stealth fighter is at the 2024 Zhuhai Air Show in Zhuhai, China, on November 14, 2024.
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2,460,000,000,000: In 2024, global defense spending rose to a new height of $2.46 trillion, according to the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies think tank.
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on Feb. 7, 2025.
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Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump had a “lengthy and highly productive phone call” on Wednesday, during which they discussed ending the Ukraine War.
An artistic rendering of an asteroid or comet striking near the Moon's south pole about 3.8 billion years ago, an impact that carved out two large craters.
Lunar and Planetary Institute/Daniel D. Durda/Handout via Reuters
China is mobilizing against an asteroid with disturbingly good odds of hitting the planet. Here’s what you need to know.
US President Donald Trump speaks during an executive order signing in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on Feb. 10, 2025. He ordered a 25% tariff on steel and aluminum imports, escalating his efforts to protect politically important US industries with levies hitting some of the country's closest allies.
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US inflation rose to 3% in January, surpassing the expectations of many economists. This increase is driven at least in part by a sharp jump in egg prices, the result of an avian flu outbreak. But there may be other pressures at play that can create serious political challenges for President Donald Trump and two of his policy priorities.
An explosion is pictured at an exploration site of the company Greenland Anorthosite Mining of an anorthosite deposit close to the Qeqertarsuatsiaat fjord, Greenland, on Sept. 11, 2021.
REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke
Greenlanders are set to go to the polls next month as US President Donald Trump increases pressure on Denmark to transfer sovereignty of the semi-autonomous Arctic island to the United States.
Palestinians walk through the destruction caused by the Israeli air and ground offensive in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip on February 12, 2025. Donald Trump has called for the expulsion of Gazans and the redevelopment of the enclave as a US-controlled "riviera."
Photo by Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto
Trump has threatened to cut aid to Egypt and Jordan unless they accept expelled Gazans as part of his plan to build a "Riviera" in Gaza.
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