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Pituffik Space Base, the only US military installation in Greenland, seen from a nearby mountain in 2019.

US, Denmark and Greenland agree a security deal that leaves Danish sovereignty intact

The Vienna International Centre, home of the IAEA, seen from the Danube in 2014.

North Korea rejects IAEA resolution passed 103 to 6, calls its nuclear status irreversible

The Italian Navy frigate ITS Alpino (F 594) steams in the Adriatic Sea in June 2023.

Italy to send warships to Bab al-Mandeb without waiting for the European Union

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez with security force representatives at the Tarajal border crossing in Ceuta on 31 July 2026, the day after the mass entry of migrants from Morocco.

Spain clears 1,700 migrants off Ceuta's beaches in an operation marked by warning shots

A Tomahawk missile launches from the destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur during a naval exercise in the Pacific in 2019. The UN report examines strikes by missiles of this type on targets in Iran in February 2026.

UN mission finds grounds to believe the US committed a war crime in Iran school strike

Magdalena Andersson and Ulf Kristersson debating in the chamber of the Riksdag in Stockholm in November 2025.

Sweden's Kristersson resigns after final count gives the opposition 176 of 349 seats

A Romanian F-16 takes off from Šiauliai Air Base, Lithuania, during NATO's Baltic Air Policing mission in 2023.

NATO jet shoots down a drone in Lithuanian airspace for the first time

Hashim Thaçi, then president of Kosovo, at the Munich Security Conference in 2018.

Hague court sentences former Kosovo president Hashim Thaçi to 25 years for war crimes

Friedrich Merz at the Charlemagne Prize ceremony in Aachen, May 2026

Under pressure after AfD rout, Merz cancels UN trip as CDU state premiers rally behind him

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney attends the State of the Union address at the European Parliament on 16 September 2026

Von der Leyen invites Canada to become the European Union's first "associate member"

U.S. President Donald Trump during an executive order signing in the Oval Office of the White House, September 4, 2026

Drug trafficking

US drops Venezuela from list of countries failing on drug control, keeps Colombia

World map in the Equal Earth projection, built from NASA satellite imagery

General Assembly

UN approves a corrected world map after centuries of shrinking Africa and South America

A street thermometer on a day of intense heat in Rio de Janeiro

State of the Global Climate 2025

The last decade was the hottest since measurements began, says the UN climate agency