Under glittering chandeliers and glaring spotlights in the ballroom of an old neoclassical palace tucked away down the backstreets of central Brussels, a junior Polish finance minister had just one word to describe the EU’s master plan to increase its defense spending — it is, he said bluntly, a “joke.” …

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British-supplied fighter jet parts linked to “indiscriminate” Israeli attacks on major port, worsening Yemen’s already dire humanitarian situation. Israeli airstrikes on Yemen’s port-city of Hodeidah have killed and injured up to 155 people since July and caused more than $20 million of damage to a vital harbour. Most of the …