Cyprus will earmark 2% of gross domestic product to defense spending in line with other European Union member states as a means to strengthen the east Mediterranean island nation’s foreign policy bargaining power, the new Cypriot president said Friday. Nikos Christodoulides told
Roxanne Perez caused a scare Tuesday night at WWE NXT Roadblock after she defended her Women’s Championship against Meiko Satomura. After the match, Perez appeared to lose consciousness and fall onto the apron prompting several NXT referees to rush out from the
NBA great Paul Pierce defended Memphis Grizzlies star Ja Morant for carrying a gun and admitted he carried a weapon after being stabbed early in his career. Pierce suggested he could empathize with Morant’s situation given what he had to go through
Max Verstappen started his Formula One World Drivers’ Championship defense with a first-place finish at the Bahrain Grand Prix on Sunday. Verstappen began the race on the pole and never looked back, continuing his dominance on the F1 circuit and not skipping
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s top allies, China and Belarus, enhanced their own diplomatic ties Wednesday after leaders from both nations met in Beijing and agreed to deepen defensive coordination as Europe faces its greatest security threat since World War II. Chinese President
The M1 Abrams tanks that President Joe Biden promised to send to Ukraine amid its ongoing war with Russia may not arrive by the end of this year or potentially the next, a U.S. Army official said Thursday. Last month, President Biden
The head of Russia’s top mercenary group Wagner on Wednesday brought renewed attention to increasing divisions between Russia’s troops and its for-hire soldiers after he accused Moscow’s defense heads of “treason.” Yevgeny Prigozhin has increasingly drawn attention to the fissures in Russia’s
On Wednesday, the Chinese Foreign Office sharply criticized the United States after a senior Defense Department official visited Taiwan. China’s Taiwan Affairs Office spokesperson Zhu Fenglian accused the U.S. and Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party of attempting to push the island’s independence
A Danish former defense minister who had publicly claimed that Denmark’s secret service helped U.S. intelligence spy on several European leaders said Tuesday he has been charged with divulging state secrets. Denmark’s prosecution authority said the country’s justice minister has agreed to
Taiwan’s Defense Ministry says a Chinese weather balloon has landed on one of its islands, nearly two weeks after the U.S. shot down a suspected Chinese spy craft over the Atlantic Ocean. The ministry announced Thursday that the balloon found on Tungyin,