Ukraine War
Steve Balestrieri reports on Belgium's shift: Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot says Brussels could support using most of Russia's frozen reserves for Ukraine if Europe...
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The Treaty
With Trump term-limited, the vice president is the likeliest nominee — and the war is the thing he can neither run toward nor away...
Ukraine War
Ukraine's own parliamentary human rights commissioner has called the violations tied to mobilization systematic and large-scale, and investigators are pursuing officials accused of assaulting...
Ukraine War
Most Russians have never traveled abroad and visas grew harder to get after the invasion, so they holiday at home — on a coastline...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The change was framed partly as a cost saving. Early Navy figures cited by analysts point the other way: steam-equipped carriers may run about...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The threat against Oman looks different once you know what Washington reportedly fears: that Muscat and other Gulf capitals might open the strait themselves,...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Drones or fragments have been recovered on Romanian soil more times this year than in all the years since the invasion began. Allied jets...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Stephen Silver covers the week's escalation in threats: Trump's promised 'Economic D-Day' against anyone aiding Iran, Bessent's vow to collapse the regime without a...
Ukraine War
Ukraine's air force says the barrage mixed Kinzhal and Zircon hypersonics, Iskanders, North Korean ballistic missiles, sea-launched cruise missiles and Shahed drones. Zelensky argues...
Ukraine War
Russia has unbanned low-grade petrol it had previously outlawed, brought in fuel by rail from Kazakhstan, Belarus and Morocco, and taken a shipment from...
Ukraine War
Refineries are diverting aromatic hydrocarbons into lower-octane gasoline, which is now producing shortages of motor oil and squeezing the same feedstocks used for synthetic...
The Treaty
Going dark hides tankers from Iranian targeting and from the commercial trackers at the same time, which is why public counts show a trickle...
The Treaty
Trump told a rally he would never apologize for high gas prices. His own Speaker concedes the war drove them up. A Republican strategist...
The Treaty
Donald Trump was elected in 2024 by a unique coalition of groups that seemed unlikely to stay together long-term. Trump earned the support of...
Dollars and Sense
Seven commodity vessels crossed the strait on Thursday, none of them supertankers or gas carriers. Traffic through the Bab el-Mandeb dropped as well. Chinese...
Dollars and Sense
A cargo of Indian gasoline was loaded at Vadinar, transferred ship to ship off Egypt, unloaded at an Arctic port and is now travelling...
Dollars and Sense
Tankers are grouped and moved through the Omani channel in designated night windows, loaded ships outbound followed by empty ships inbound, under Air Force...
North Korea Talk
Georgia Gilholy reports on Lavrov's world-order message to Pyongyang, Zelensky's claim that up to fifty thousand more troops could follow the Kursk deployment, Reuters-reported...
North Korea Talk
Trump ordered joint exercises with South Korea scaled back and praised Kim Jong-Un, drawing sharp criticism as Seoul stays muted.
North Korea Talk
Roughly 9,500 are already there. Reuters reports North Korean supplies have at times covered around half of Russia's frontline munitions, and the next contingent...
Ukraine War
Jack Buckby reports on VEB.RF's dismissal of chief economist Andrei Klepach, which The Bell links to his warnings that Russia is losing the economic...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Russia has long been known to give some support to Iran during this year’s war with the United States. But a new report states...