The European Union has committed €150 billion in defense financing — not announced, not pledged, but allocated through a loan facility that member states are already drawing down. That number, channeled through the Security Action for Europe regulation, represents the financial backbone of something genuinely new in geopolitical architecture: a coalition designed not to deter […]

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Vietnam’s National Assembly unanimously elected Communist Party Secretary General To Lam as state president, placing the country’s two most powerful offices in the hands of a single leader for the first time in decades and marking a clean break from Vietnam’s tradition of collective rule. National Assembly delegates voted in favor, confirming a nomination that […]

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The reported closure of the Strait of Hormuz appears to have severed a lifeline that African nations long treated as permanent. With the Iran conflict allegedly choking off the narrow waterway through which roughly a fifth of the world’s oil passes, countries across the continent may now be confronting an energy crisis that exposes decades […]

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Starfish Space has raised more than $100 million to scale up production of its satellite servicing spacecraft.

A significant drop in per capita water availability has turned daily survival in Gaza’s al-Mawasi camp into a five-hour ordeal of queues, jerrycans, and contaminated saltwater that families have no choice but to drink. The crisis sharpened after Eta, a company that had provided clean water to displaced Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, ceased operations […]

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The loudest laugher in any room isn't just performing joy — they're often running a continuous, sophisticated emotional monitoring system, reading every face, cataloging every shift, and paying a cognitive price nobody around them sees.

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While the United States and China dominate space policy headlines, the European Space Agency has quietly constructed the world's most consequential Earth observation architecture — and the political, industrial, and data-access decisions that made this possible reveal a model of institutional power that Washington has struggled to replicate.

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On 6 April 2026, NASA’s Artemis II Mission, powered by ESA’s European Service Module (ESM), brought humans further than ever before. 

But how do future astronauts train to live on the Moon, and what kind of lunar base could they create?

That’s where school students like you can come in!