The US is dramatically phasing out crucial security assistance programmes for European armies stationed along Russia's menacing border, as Donald Trump aggressively pushes the continent to cough up for more of its own defence.

NATO takes the issue "very seriously" and is "working day and night to counter this, to prevent it, and to make sure that they will not do it again," Secretary General Mark Rutte said.

Leaders on the continent are trying to show the U.S. president that they are serious about laying the groundwork to end the war — and that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia is not.

A deal to bring the war in eastern Europe to a close still seems unlikely in the near future, despite U.S. determination to clinch a deal.

By fueling a resource race among rival powers, Russia’s apparent discovery erodes the Antarctic Treaty safeguards, inviting environmental and diplomatic chaos.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Burkina Faso's junta leader Captain Ibrahim Traore arrive for talks in Moscow on May 10, 2025. [AFP] As the popularity of Burkina Faso interim president ...

Russia has declared it's no longer considers itself bound by a self-imposed moratorium on deploying nuclear-capable intermediate range missiles, a warning that potentially sets the stage for a new arms race as tensions between Moscow and Washington rise again over Ukraine.

Russia is building what appears to be one of Europe's largest antenna arrays, a system capable of intercepting signals across the continent and beyond.

Russia has no plans to discuss any potential foreign military deployment in Ukraine in any format, describing it as "absolutely unacceptable", foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

Wagner, a feared Russian mercenary group, is being replaced in Africa by another Russian paramilitary, experts say – the Africa Corps.

The US is phasing out crucial security assistance programmes for European armies stationed along Russia's border, as Donald Trump aggressively pushes the continent to pay for its own defence