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Vance Proposes Restarting Peace Talks in Outreach to Iranian Official

In his letter, the vice president suggested an immediate resumption of comprehensive talks, including about Iran’s nuclear program.

© Tierney L. Cross for The New York Times

Vice President JD Vance is said to have made the outreach in a letter sent last week via Qatari meditators and delivered Sunday to an Iranian official, Gen. Mohsen Rezaei.
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Akhilleus: A Defence Shield Orchestrating the Levantine Fortress

The Achilles Shield marks Greece’s ambition to build a stronger defence network with Israeli technology amid rising tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean. From its multilayered missile-defence architecture to the growing rivalry between Israel and Turkey, the project reflects a changing regional balance of power. Yet, like Achilles himself, even the strongest shield may have vulnerabilities. […]
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Exercises Over, Typhon Stays

The recently concluded trilateral “Orient Shield” exercises in Japan became the first three-way maneuvers involving Washington, Tokyo, and Canberra in which the “Typhon” medium-range missile system was employed. How are the United States and its allies pushing the world toward the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD)? The Land of the Rising WMD Proliferation […]
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Kleptocracy and the Incompetence of the illegal Ukraine Regime’s Backers

A high-profile scandal has rocked the European Union, exposing the thorough incompetence of the bloc, which is hell-bent on trying to undermine Russia’s sovereignty by aiding the illegal Kyiv regime. In an egregious incident, the Defense Minister of Estonia, Hanno Pevkur, resigned on September 3, 2026. While resignations may seem rather routine in the fast-moving […]
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