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Pacifists Buy Missiles: Bern and Tokyo After Hormuz

The world's oldest armed neutrality and its most famous pacifist constitution broke in the same month.

Neutrality in Question? Austria Debates Age Old Thinking

Austria debates its military neutrality amid rising NATO influence in Europe, as Brigadier Dr. Walter Feichtinger analyses security shifts post-Ukraine invasion.

Peacemaker No More: Austria Ditches Neutrality for NATO

Austria debates ending decades of neutrality in 2025, weighing NATO membership amid rising Russian threats and shifting EU security ties.

The Balkans on Edge: Dodik Conviction and Rising Separatist Rhetoric

The secessionist actions of Milorad Dodik threaten Bosnia’s stability, risking EU membership, and regional peace amid growing tensions.

ReArming Europe: The Billion Dollar Plan to Self-Suffiency

EU launches ReArm Europe, a €800bn defense plan to boost self-sufficiency amid rising threats and uncertain U.S. military support.

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Trump’s Health Shock Reaches Far Beyond America

As Belgian ministers warn that Trump threatens Europe's healthcare model, the damage is already spreading through aid budgets, medicine routes, and public health systems far beyond Washington.

Alberta’s Separatist Feed Was Made in the Netherlands

After CBC traced several Alberta separatist YouTube channels to operators in the Netherlands, Canada's political fringe began to look less local than it likes to claim.

Sudan’s Drone War: Low-Cost Conflict In Energy Crunch

In Khartoum's bombed-out streets, 1.8 million people reclaimed their homes, before drone strikes resumed.

Switzerland Names a Buried Crime

After Swiss lawmakers voted this week to declare the treatment of Yenish and Sinti families a crime against humanity, a long-buried national shame entered public language at last.

Piracy Around the Horn of Africa is Going Global

With four tankers seized near Somalia in a fortnight, POTUS describes his own navy boarding foreign ships as piracy.