Author: Justin M. Larson

Europe has struggled to unite to meet the challenges of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in the last four years.The threat from Russia, and the growing tensions with the U.S. under President Donald Trump, have fueled suggestions that the answer to Europe’s divisions, redundancies and duplications in its defense efforts is a single European army. The idea is almost as old as post-Second World War European cooperation, but it’s been the subject of intense discussion in 2026.At the World Economic Forum (WEF) at Davos, Andrius Kubilius, the European Union’s Commissioner for defense and space, told CNBC that the EU should…

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This aerial view shows a cargo ship sailing out of the Panama Canal on the Pacific side in Panama City on October 6, 2025.Martin Bernetti | Afp | Getty ImagesPanama annulled key port contracts held by a subsidiary of Hong Kong-based CK Hutchison in its official gazette Monday, transferring interim operations of the ports to Danish shipping giants A.P. Moller-Maersk and Swiss-based Mediterranean Shipping Co.The notice formalized a Supreme Court ruling last month that the concessions for the Balboa and Cristobal terminals near the Panama Canal, which Panama Port Company, a subsidiary of CK Hutchison, had held for more than…

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A baby boy has become the first child in Britain to be born to a mother with a womb transplanted from a deceased donor. Hugo Powell was delivered by caesarean section in December, weighing 6lb 13oz (3.1kg), at the Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital, part of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, in London. Only two other such cases have been reported elsewhere in Europe, while a baby was born from a womb transplanted from a living donor for the first time in the UK last year.Hugo’s mother, Grace Bell, an IT programme manager, was born with Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser (MRKH), a rare…

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“Just over a month ago, Sudan reached a horrific milestone: 1,000 days of a brutal war that has nearly destroyed the third largest country in Africa,” Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs said.  It has been “1,000 days of staggering violence and unimaginable suffering” and “1,000 days of total impunity for the perpetrators of a long list of atrocities and war crimes.”As the conflict approaches its third anniversary in April, fighting continues to spread. Ms. DiCarlo said front lines have fluctuated in North Darfur, North Kordofan, South Kordofan and Blue Nile states, with drone attacks and aerial strikes by both…

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The escalation comes amid rising protection risks for civilians and aid workers, with three humanitarian personnel killed between 7 and 16 February in Jonglei and Upper Nile states, according to the UN relief coordination office, OCHA.Access to some of the worst-affected areas remains uneven despite renewed pledges by authorities to allow relief operations.Last Friday, Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher arrived in the country for a five-day mission to draw international attention to what he described as a deteriorating and underreported crisis.“So here in South Sudan, you have this perfect storm of climate change and conflict and inequality and poverty,” Mr.…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! You already know malware is out there. You hear about phishing emails, fake apps and data breaches almost every week. But every so often, something comes along that feels more personal. ZeroDayRAT spyware is one of those threats.If your device gets infected, attackers can see almost everything happening on your phone. That includes your messages, notifications, location and even live camera feeds. Let that sink in for a second.This is not some clunky virus from years ago. Security researchers at iVerify, a mobile security and digital forensics company, describe it as a…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! U.S. policy is often reported through announcements, personalities, and regulatory skirmishes. Far less attention is paid to the economic mechanisms that actually move structures and determine outcomes.To understand how the White House is organizing a multi-pronged strategy for AI adoption and export, and how its pieces are meant to work together in practice, I had an exclusive sit down with Michael Kratsios, assistant to the president and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.Tanvi Ratna: The fundamental issue you speak about at the summit is the widening AI…

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