A European Union fund meant to help speed the deployment of troops, tanks and military equipment around the 27-nation bloc in times of conflict is too small and poorly managed to be effective, auditors said in a report Wednesday.
Earthquakes rattled Greece’s volcanic island of Santorini every few minutes overnight and into Wednesday as authorities bolstered emergency plans in case the hundreds of temblors over the past few days are a harbinger of a larger quake to come.
Next month Navy officials will host a conference in Serbia for businesses to learn about upcoming contracting opportunities. The goodwill created by such projects is an inexpensive way to reach countries that might not be immediately important but collectively would be significant if the U.S. was dealing with a crisis.
At least 10 people, including the gunman, were killed Tuesday at an adult education center in what Sweden’s prime minister called the country’s worst mass shooting. But a final death toll, a conclusive number of wounded and a motive hadn’t yet been determined hours later.
Russia’s crude exports have yet to be curtailed by the latest U.S. sanctions to target its oil, with flows broadly stable. But while loading cargoes onto tankers is one thing, getting them off is another — and signs are emerging that the curbs are stalling the completion of shipments.
In eastern Ukraine, a concert hall requisitioned as a shelter houses people driven from their homes. The center costs the equivalent of $7,000 a month to run, and 60% of that was being covered by U.S. funds sent to help Ukraine. U.S. military aid has not been frozen.
It is Vice President JD Vance’s first scheduled trip abroad since taking office. The AI Action Summit on Feb. 10-11 will gather heads of state and top government officials, CEOs and other actors. China’s Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang is also among those expected to attend.
As Ukrainian officials considered how to sway a skeptical President Donald Trump to continue supporting their country, one strategy was to appeal to Trump’s so-called businesslike approach and offer him a trade - say, rare earth minerals - to get something in return.
Various new drones in the Army’s arsenal are being tested during an exercise at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels, Germany.
Moscow’s renewed attacks on Ukraine’s electricity infrastructure this winter have heightened scrutiny over the Ukrainian Energy Ministry’s failure to protect the country’s most critical energy facilities near nuclear power sites.
Authorities deployed emergency rescue crews to Greece’s volcanic island of Santorini on Monday as hundreds of people scrambled to leave after a spike in seismic activity raised concerns about a potentially powerful earthquake. Schools on four islands were also to shutter through Friday.
The U.S. military formally transferred its Patriot missile defense mission in Poland to German forces Monday, marking the first such handover to happen in Europe.
Ukrainian drones struck more Russian oil and gas facilities, the latest in a near-daily series of attacks meant to hurt Moscow’s war effort.
A dire shortage of infantry troops and supply routes coming under Russian drone attacks are conspiring against Ukrainian forces in Pokrovsk, where decisive battles in the nearly three-year war are playing out — and time is running short.
Denmark is ready to allow the U.S. to boost its presence in Greenland, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said as she seeks to curb an escalating diplomatic crisis with the Trump administration over the world’s largest island.
An American service member is being accused by Italian authorities of stabbing her active-duty spouse following a roadside argument, according to a local news report.
European Union leaders are gathering on Monday for informal talks focused on defense with no clear sign yet from President Donald Trump about how he intends to try to end Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Competing claims emerged over a deadly attack on a boarding school in Sudzha, a city in Russia’s Kursk region that has been under Ukrainian control for five months, with Ukraine and Russia accusing each other of carrying out the strike.