This [spy balloon’s eight-day flight] path certainly suggests China is gathering intelligence for either a first or second strike on America’s nukes. Combined with the green lasers collecting atmospheric data useful for a strike by a hypersonic glide vehicle on Hawaii, American defense planners should be alarmed. The real story …

Independence remains defining issue in Scottish politics and is likely to stay so regardless of who picks up the SNP baton Nicola Sturgeon ran out of road. It is as simple as that. Scotland’s first minister, a supreme communicator with a strong claim to being the most effective political leader …

Former president Milan Kučan and many other prominent names are calling on countries to end the war in Ukraine. Several prominent politicians, intellectuals and artists called on the EU, NATO, the United States of America and the Russian Federation to end the war in Ukraine in a public letter signed …