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Growing Tensions With US Could Lead Europe Deeper Into Nuclear Proliferation Nuclear Weapons

Growing Tensions With US Could Lead Europe Deeper Into Nuclear Proliferation

For more than 70 years, the United States has practiced what it calls extended deterrence, which includes the so-called “nuclear umbrella” for its NATO allies in Europe. Countries under the umbrella agree not to develop their own nuclear weapons with the understanding that the U.S. could use its nuclear weapons…
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February 24, 2026
‘The lack of women was a terrible deprivation’: Melvyn Bragg on Oxford, Boris Johnson, and Trump Boris Johnson

‘The lack of women was a terrible deprivation’: Melvyn Bragg on Oxford, Boris Johnson, and Trump

Melvyn Bragg “went up” to Oxford University in 1958, sporting an Elvis Presley look-alike haircut. He spent three glorious, carefree years in its gilded hallways. The Carlisle man was part of a postwar working-class generation – along with filmmakers Dennis Potter and Ken Loach – that breached the walls of…
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February 24, 2026
Putin ‘did not break’ Ukraine, Zelenskyy says on fourth anniversary of Russian invasion Putin

Putin ‘did not break’ Ukraine, Zelenskyy says on fourth anniversary of Russian invasion

In Brief Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia has not broken Ukraine. The video address came on the fourth anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Vladimir Putin has not broken Ukraine, its leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Tuesday, as the Kremlin marked the start of the fifth year of…
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February 24, 2026
Trump reportedly isn’t sending a hospital ship to Greenland after all Greenland

Trump reportedly isn’t sending a hospital ship to Greenland after all

Early Saturday, Denmark’s Arctic Command made an important announcement: It had evacuated a crew member of a U.S. submarine in need of medical attention, transporting the sailor to Greenland for emergency care. Soon after, instead of expressing gratitude, Donald Trump published a bizarre statement to his social media platform. According…
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February 24, 2026