SUPERPOWERS

News About Superpowers

7,908 articles

Trump carves up world and international order with it
Apr 12, 2025 (AFP)
Russia wants Ukraine, China demands Taiwan and now the US president seems to be following suit, whether by coveting Canada as the "51st US state", insisting "we...
E. Europe watching closely as US weighs troop numbers
Apr 11, 2025 (AFP)
The NBC news channel, quoting US and European sources, said this week that Department of Defense officials were looking at the withdrawal of 10,000 troops. The ...
During Japan trip, NATO chief warns of Chinese military expansion
Apr 08, 2025 (UPI)
China's emphasis on military development, support of Russia and ties to Iran and North Korea make China a serious concern, Rutte said while meeting with Japanes...
Pentagon chief fires US military representative to NATO
Apr 08, 2025 (AFP)
Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield is the latest in a string of senior officers -- including multiple women -- to be dismissed by Donald Trump's administration, pa...
US may pull 10,000 troops from eastern Europe
Apr 08, 2025 (AFP)
About 20,000 extra troops were deployed to the region in 2022 under then-president Joe Biden, reinforcing NATO's eastern flank after Russia invaded Ukraine. NBC...
Russia bans Japanese NGO amid disputed islands row
Apr 07, 2025 (AFP)
The archipelago, known in Russian as the Kuril Islands and in Japanese as the Northern Territories, lies off the northeast coast of Japan. The four islands were...
Macron calls for 'strong action' if Russia continues to 'refuse peace'
Apr 06, 2025 (AFP)
Despite US and European efforts to secure peace in Ukraine, Russia continued "to murder children and civilians", Macron said. "My thoughts are with the children...
NATO chief tells AFP Trump has not 'undercut' collective defence pledge
Apr 04, 2025 (AFP)
"Article Five, he has not undercut. He has committed to NATO, he has committed to Article Five," Rutte told AFP in an interview. Trump has rattled allies by thr...
Rubio says US committed to NATO - but demands allies spend more
Apr 03, 2025 (AFP)
President Donald Trump has rattled Europe by casting doubt on his willingness to defend all allies, and by reaching out to Russia over the war in Ukraine -- bef...
NATO allies to meet Trump's top diplomat as US tariffs everywhere, including deserted islands
Apr 02, 2025 (AFP)
The Australian territory in the sub-Antarctic Indian Ocean was slapped with 10 percent tariffs on all its exports, despite the icy archipelago having zero resid...
NATO presses to keep Trump on board, but is he hobbling alliance?
Apr 02, 2025 (AFP)
But as his administration savages Europe, undercuts Kyiv and warms to Russia, Western diplomats fret that even if the alliance is salvaged it runs the risk of b...
Rubio heads to Europe as transatlantic tensions soar
Apr 02, 2025 (AFP)
Rubio will join two days of talks among NATO foreign ministers in Brussels, a preparation for a June leaders' summit in The Hague. The new US administration has...
Joint Chiefs of Staff chair nominee promises to be 'apolitical' and candid
Apr 01, 2025 (UPI)
Members of the Senate Armed Forces Committee subjected Caine to a 2.5-hour confirmation hearing Tuesday morning at the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washing...
Senators to grill Trump pick for top US military position
Apr 01, 2025 (AFP)
Democrats have sharply criticized the dismissal of general CQ Brown -- the previous chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff -- and other senior officers, accusing Tr...
Sweden investing $10 mn to modernise civil defence bunkers
Apr 01, 2025 (AFP)
Sweden and other European nations have announced plans to step up defence spending in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and, more recently, over doubts a...
Cooperation 'better than confrontation,' Polish PM urges Trump
Mar 31, 2025 (AFP)
"A strong US, a strong European Union and a strong NATO, not weaker," is important to "common European-American interests," Tusk said on the X social media netw...
Trump 'angry' at Putin for criticizing Zelensky's legitimacy
Mar 30, 2025 (UPI)
"If Russia and I are unable to make a deal on stopping the bloodshed in Ukraine, and if I think it was Russia's fault -- which it might not be -- but if I think...
US defence chief visits Philippines dogged by scandal at home
Mar 28, 2025 (AFP)
Hegseth's trip, aimed at bolstering ties in the Asia-Pacific region as tensions rise with Beijing, comes in the shadow of a mounting scandal at home over leaked...
French FM says China can help bring Russia to Ukraine negotiating table
Mar 27, 2025 (AFP)
France and China have sought to boost ties in recent years, but Paris has also pressed Beijing on its relations with Moscow, which have strengthened since the i...
China poses biggest military threat to US: intel report
Mar 26, 2025 (AFP)
Beijing's "coercive pressure" against Taiwan and "wide-ranging cyber operations against US targets" were indicators of its growing threat to US national securit...
The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, is Copyright 1995-2026 Space Media Network. All websites are published in Australia and are solely subject to Australian law and governed by Fair Use principles for news reporting and research purposes.