NATO leaders are holding their annual summit as Ukraine looks to the security alliance for support in its attempt to push back invading Russian forces. Russia’s more assertive posture, novel military capabilities, and provocative activities, including near NATO borders, as well as its large-scale no-notice and snap exercises, continue to threaten the security of the Euro-Atlantic area. We are working …
The United Nations chief warned the world on August 1 that “humanity is just one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation,” citing the war in Ukraine, nuclear threats in Asia and the Middle East and many other factors. Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said divisions in the world since the last review conference in 2015, which ended without a …
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Antonio Guterres sounds a global alarm at the opening of the meeting to review a landmark nuclear weapons treaty. Nuclear threats emanating from the war in Ukraine as well as in Asia and the Middle East have put the world one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation”, the United Nations secretary-general said. The meeting is “an opportunity to hammer out the …