Europe needs a war economy
With US support increasingly uncertain, Europe must mobilise its financial and industrial power to defend itself.

With US support increasingly uncertain, Europe must mobilise its financial and industrial power to defend itself.






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As Canada’s LNG exports grow, critics raise concerns over human rights abuses linked to major corporate investors.
The pledge, which Trump says will go through tax-friendly ‘Trump accounts’, comes two weeks before the US midterms.
The loss, up from $13bn in the same period last year, was driven by accounting charges, according to the report.
ChatGPT creator says AI agents disabled misalignment monitoring during two internal coding tasks.
Tech mogul says tie-up has a ‘lot of merit’, given firms’ complementary work on AI.

Elon Musk says SpaceX and Tesla are considering a merger that would form a $3.5 trillion mega company.

Israeli capital, water technology, and real estate are making Cyprus a strategic and economic extension of Israel.

Qatar says diplomatic efforts are ongoing to de-escalate regional tensions and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
Rising economic pain confronting US voters has not translated into a loss of faith among Trump’s most loyal supporters.
Reliance is central to Washington’s efforts to punish Russian energy buyers and contain oil prices amid the war on Iran.