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BERLIN — Within hours of being sworn into office, Germany’s new defense minister will be expected to hold talks with the U.S. defense secretary. A day later, he will represent Germany’s armed forces at a meeting with European allies awaiting critical decisions on the war in Ukraine. That would not …

Editor’s Note: A version of this story appears in today’s Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, CNN’s three-times-a-week look inside the region’s biggest stories. Sign up here. Abu Dhabi, UAE CNN  —  It was a rare embrace between one of Israel’s most controversial politicians and an Arab ambassador. Itamar Ben …

For those of us who served during the forever war in Afghanistan, our withdrawal just over a year ago will stay with us until we die. So many of us left pieces of ourselves in that country, literally and figuratively. So many of us served with and, in many instances, …

The US government says it will “soon be able to call” Sweden and Finland NATO allies, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said following a meeting with his Swedish and Finnish counterparts on Thursday, December 8, when asked about their admission into the defense alliance. Finland and Sweden asked to join …

For much of Donald J. Trump’s presidency, Jewish Republicans rationalized away the bigoted fringe of Mr. Trump’s coalition, arguing that the unsavory supporters in his midst and the antisemitic tropes he deployed paled in comparison with the staunchly pro-Israel policies of his administration. But last week, Mr. Trump dined at …

A former spokesperson of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Olisa Metuh, has claimed that the PDP Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar, is under pressure to withdraw support for allies of loyalists of Nyesom Wike running election. According to Metuh, the former Vice President is resisting pressures to pull the rug from …

One needs to be careful throwing around accusations or even suspicions that Trump acted as a Russian or Saudi asset as president. But when one learns of Trump’s use of intelligence reports and hears that Trump liked to gain leverage over our allies while deepening his friendships with some of …

Trump ally John Solomon released a letter from the National Archives that confirms that Trump has no executive privilege over classified documents. The National Archives wrote to Trump: Because an assertion of executive privilege against the incumbent President under these circumstances would not be viable, it follows that there is …

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Just a few hours after five Chinese missiles blasted into Japanese waters near Taiwan, the foreign ministers of China and Japan found themselves uncomfortably close together, in the holding room for a gala dinner on Thursday night at a meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian …

LAS VEGAS — An influential network of conservative activists fixated on the idea that former President Donald J. Trump won the 2020 election is working to recruit county sheriffs to investigate elections based on the false notion that voter fraud is widespread. The push, which two right-wing sheriffs’ groups have …