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US President Donald Trump and ​Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman at the Saudi-US Investment Forum, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on May 13, 2025.
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The Saudi crown prince returns to Washington

For the first time in seven years, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman is returning to Washington, DC, this week. It is now the great power-chess game between the US and China, rather than oil, that is making the Washington and Riyadh join forces.

U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to attend the G7 Leaders' Summit at Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada.
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The G7: Now G6 + 1?

The G7 is no longer setting the table; it’s struggling to hold the cutlery. Once a pillar of the post-war world order, the group today is split between the US and the rest, casting about for common ground.

​A sign calling for the protection of ostriches at the Universal Ostrich Farms is displayed in Edgewood, B.C., Canada, on May 17, 2025.
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HARD NUMBERS: Trump officials fight ostrich culling, Mark Carney wants to ReArm with Europe, Wildfires in Manitoba, Golden Dome price set

​US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., USA, on May 20, 2025.
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Will Canada come under the Golden Dome?

Donald Trump wants to protect the United States from ballistic and hypersonic missiles with a “Golden Dome,” and Canada, officially, wants in.

Will Trump find a fall guy for Signal chat revelations?
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Will Trump find a fall guy for Signal chat revelations?

The Signal-gate repercussions continue, after The Atlantic published screenshots of senior White House officials discussing war plans over the messaging app.

Israel Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Itamar Ben Gvir shake hands as the Israeli government approve Netanyahu's proposal to reappoint Itamar Ben-Gvir as minister of National Security, in the Knesset, Israeli parliament in Jerusaelm, March 19, 2025
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Israel gets “budget of war” amid new plans for Gaza and West Bank

Israel’s Knesset on Tuesday approved its 2025 budget by a vote of 66 to 52, days before a March 31 deadline that would have otherwise triggered an election.

National Security Advisor Michael Waltz
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Signal failure: Trump team includes journalist in top secret plans

Washington is buzzing over a major security breach that saw the editor of The Atlantic magazine, Jeffrey Goldberg, mistakenly added to a Signal group chat that included Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, VP JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz. The group coordinated a war plan and sent real-time operational details about US strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen, sharing classified information on an external app without noticing that Goldberg was on the chat.

Is Europe finally ready to defend itself?
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Is Europe finally ready to defend itself?

How serious is Europe about really beefing up its defense and rearming? Carl Bildt, former prime minister of Sweden and co-chair of the European Council on Foreign Relations, shares his perspective on European politics from Tabiano, Italy.

President Donald Trump talks to the media next to Tesla CEO Elon Musk, with a Tesla car in the background, at the White House on March 11, 2025.
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Report: Pentagon set to reveal secret China war strategy to … Elon Musk

Elon Musk may have a big day ahead. On Friday, according to the New York Times, he’ll be made privy to war plans for a US military conflict with China. But President Donald Trump has denied that Musk will be briefed on China during his visit.

​Lars Klingbeil (l), Chairman of the SPD parliamentary group, and Friedrich Merz, CDU Chairman and Chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, talk at the end of the 213th plenary session of the 20th legislative period in the German Bundestag.
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Will Germany dump its debt brake?

Germany’s government is in a state of uncertainty as the outgoing government races to push through a huge, and highly controversial, new spending package before its term ends early this spring.