Issue 2026-05-02
Stories
- Pentagon Orders 5,000-Troop Pullout From Germany After Trump–Merz Iran Spat
- Trump-Putin 90-Minute Call Floats May 9 Ukraine Ceasefire
- Israel Drives 10 km into Lebanon, Killing Civilians Two Weeks After U.S.–Brokered Truce
- Trump Unilaterally Lifts EU Auto Tariff Ceiling from 15% to 25%
- EU-Mercosur Mega-FTA Kicks In Despite Court Challenge
- ECB Sets Stage for June Rate Hike as Energy-Shock Inflation Builds
- Pentagon Locks In Seven-Vendor AI Suite for Classified Networks, Anthropic Still Blacklisted
- Hezbollah Unleashes Unjammable Fiber-Optic FPV Drones on Israel's Northern Front
- Baiterek Complex Debuts Soyuz-5 Medium-Lift Rocket
At a Glance
- Three days after threatening reprisals, President Trump green-lit a Pentagon plan to remove 5,000 of the roughly 36,0...
- On 29 April 2026, Presidents Trump and Putin held a 90-minute phone call in which Trump urged – and Putin tentatively...
- On 30 April 2026, Israeli forces deepened their incursion to 10 km inside Lebanon and carried out air-strikes that ki...
- President Donald Trump announced that, starting next week, imports of cars and trucks from the European Union will fa...
- On 1 May 2026 Brussels activated the EU-Mercosur free-trade agreement, slashing most tariffs immediately even though...
- After leaving policy unchanged at its 30 April meeting, ECB leaders publicly warned on 1 May that they will raise rat...