Lithuania on Tuesday declared a state of emergency and asked parliament to authorise military support for police and border guards after a wave of smuggler balloons from Belarus repeatedly disrupted air traffic in recent months.
China and Russia carried out their 10th joint strategic air patrol over the East China Sea and western Pacific on Tuesday, China's defence ministry said in a statement.
Ukraine will turn its focus to strengthening its army through higher-quality training and better mobilisation and recruitment as the Russian invasion continues on, its military chief said.
US-brokered negotiations have not reached a consensus on control of the eastern Donbas region, as officials say territory remains the “most problematic issue”.
There is no need for a rupture between Europe and the U.S. over Washington's new Security Strategy warning of "civilizational erasure" in the Old World, Germany's spy chief said.
Thailand said its fighter jets struck Cambodia on Monday in an attempt to cripple its military capability, as a re-eruption of border hostilities derailed a fragile ceasefire brokered by Trump.
A Chinese carrier strike group launched intense air operations near Japan over the weekend as the East Asian neighbours traded diplomatic barbs in an escalating dispute, further straining ties.
Thailand said it launched airstrikes into Cambodia on Monday as fighting broke out in multiple areas along their disputed border, after both countries accused the other of breaching a ceasefire brokered by Trump.
Japan said on Sunday that Chinese fighter jets had aimed their radar at Japanese military aircraft in two "dangerous" incidents near Japan's Okinawa islands, an account Beijing disputed.
A large-scale Russian drone and missile attack damaged power facilities in eight Ukrainian regions, causing blackouts and forcing nuclear power plants to cut power output.
by Oleksiy Kolomiyets - President, The Centre for European and Transatlantic Studies
The visit of the Kremlin dictator to New Delhi can almost certainly indicate that India is becoming a kind of associated member of the modern axis of evil.
A disordered world tests multinational corporations as well as diplomats. Amid trade wars and real wars, great-power struggles and vicious crises, geopolitical and geoeconomic disruptions are mounting.
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