NATO Defense Spending: Which Countries Are Meeting Their Commitments?

NATO members meet the 2% defense spending goal; Canada, Spain, and Italy lag behind. Italy struggles financially, while others are close or have plans to reach the target. Political shifts in the West ... Read More

The Dutch government is ‘future-proofing’ its military in an increasingly volatile world

The Netherlands' defense ministry has announced a major plan to “future-proof” the country's military, including buying more F-35 fighter jets and the return of a Dutch tank battalion as it gears up ... Read More

Finland to spend more on defence, NATO and security

Finland's ruling centre-right coalition plans to spend more on NATO membership, defence and security in 2025, while scaling back on welfare spending to tame the Nordic country's fiscal deficit, it ... Read More

Space and Missile Defense

NATO’s forthcoming plans to deter Russia includes “significant improvements to our air and missile defenses,” as well as fifth-generation jets, alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg ... Read More

Poland to increase its spending on defense in 2025 to a record high

WARSAW, Poland -- Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk says the 2025 state budget will include record-high spending on defense. Tusk on Wednesday presented the main points of next year’s budget, which he ... Read More

Ukraine has achieved 'a lot' in Kursk offensive, NATO's Stoltenberg says

Ukraine has achieved "a lot" in its Kursk offensive into Russia but it's hard to say how the situation will develop next, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters in Oslo on Thursday. Read More

World News

“Revolution is the job of poets and artists,” says Ko Maung ... with China and world antidoping officials, and will cast a shadow over the Paris Olympics. Chinese state news and social media ... Read More

Taiwan defense spending to outpace GDP growth as China threat rises

Taiwan's defense spending will rise 7.7% ... Reuters is a news agency founded in 1851 and owned by the Thomson Reuters Corporation based in Toronto, Canada. One of the world's largest wire ... Read More

The rise of 'doom spending' - what it is and how to stop

Whether it's global warming, an impending economic disaster or the idea of never owning a home, young people are worrying about the future - and are "doom spending ... she says: "We can't afford ... Read More

What to know about the mpox global health emergency

LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization declared Wednesday that the increasing spread of mpox in Africa is a global health emergency ... WATCH: As monkeypox cases rise, so do concerns ... Read More

S&P Global Inc. stock rises Thursday, still underperforms market

S&P Global Inc. closed $15.76 short of its 52-week high ($502.95), which the company reached on July 30th. Supported by world-class markets data from Dow Jones and FactSet, and partnering with ... Read More

Templeton Global Total Return A

Leaving global bond benchmarks aside ... the team made a large bet against it starting in 2022’s second half. The managers' belief that US growth would be slower than other Asian economies ... Read More