María R. Sahuquillo

The destabilization in the African region poses a higher threat of jihadist terrorism and increased flows of migrants to Europe

Daniel Ortega’s regime is close to Moscow and has an autocratic track record; it prevented a unanimous statement on the invasion, but the Central American nation stands alone

Disagreement between EU and CELAC over Russia’s war in Ukraine is straining the first summit in eight years between the two continents

The Alliance has launched a study to assess potential risks from North Africa, the Sahel and Middle East, but the area was left out of regional plans approved at Vilnius summit

The leaders of Japan, Australia, South Korea and New Zealand took part in the Vilnius summit, but the Allies disagree on how far the organization should be involved in that region

In a communiqué, the Allies say defense spending will be ‘at least’ 2% of GDP and announce further investigation into emerging threats in the southern flank

Zelenskiy charges that the allies’ agreement is undefined and warns it could benefit Russia

The initiative, which is supported by France, Germany and the United Kingdom, involves a commitment to continue to supply Kyiv with weapons, but does not set down a concrete timetable for the country’s accession into the Alliance, which is still a source of division

Lithuania has pulled out all the stops to offer security to around 40 state and government leaders who are meeting in extraordinary geopolitical circumstances

The Air Defender 23 exercises were intended as a historic show of force ahead of the organization’s Vilnius summit, which begins on Tuesday

The Allies will meet in Lithuania in a bid to send the Kremlin a resounding messages of unity and strength

The end of the rebellion has raised questions about what will happen to the mercenary group, which acts as the Kremlin’s unofficial armed wing in countries such as Mali and the Central African Republic

Life in Moscow and the southwest border with Ukraine has returned to normal after the mercenaries stopped their march towards the Russian capital, but the security crisis has called into question Putin’s strongman image

Prigozhin said he was ordering his troops to halt their march on Moscow after reaching a deal to resolve the crisis. The Kremlin announced that it will drop charges against the mercenary leader, who can take refuge in Belarus

The head of the private security company Wagner has raised his profile during the war in Ukraine. His attack poses a major challenge to the Kremlin

An internal document from the foreign service points to Moscow as the probable perpetrator and gauges the effects of an ‘unprecedented’ catastrophe

Washington has shown no signs of fatigue in its commitment but at the same time it is aware that aid has to be seen to be making an impact with presidential elections on the horizon

A EU External Action Service document urges rebalancing of bloc’s relationship with Beijing to limit over-dependence and dissuade support for Moscow

The Atlantic Alliance is expected to approve the new strategy, a response to the new geopolitical reality after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, at its Vilnius summit in July

Diplomats and analysts believe Moscow will capitalize on the incident to inflame anti-Western rhetoric. Deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, has called for the ‘elimination of Zelenskiy and his clique’

The EU, NATO and the U.S. have a skeptical view of Xi’s call to Zelensky. The next steps in the conflict will serve as the basis for defining a strategy to bring an end to the war waged by Russia

Washington wants a full ban on exports to Moscow with few exceptions, while Brussels is proposing tools to deter the countries that are helping the Kremlin circumvent restrictions

The European Commission has proposed ‘extraordinary’ restrictions on some products exported by Kyiv that would allow only for transit through Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Romania

The financing of new physical barriers at the European Union’s external borders is once again straining the migration debate

Five countries demand more financial support from the EU to offset the effects on their own markets of a flood of produce that is getting stuck in transportation bottlenecks and driving down prices

Warsaw’s promise to deliver Soviet MIG-29s represents a significant new step in the transfer of weapons to Kyiv, after allies agreed to send battle tanks. But Ukrainian officials say what they really need is US-made warplanes

The Russian poet and dissident – who fled to Georgia after the invasion of Ukraine – heads one of the most powerful anti-war organizations in the world