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Australia’s Future Fund discloses huge profits from weapons manufacturers despite fierce criticisms of support for industry

Value of shares in eight companies rockets amid sharpest increase in military spend since cold war

The Guardian - AU

Russia’s provocations are menacing Nato. The cold war shows how it needs to respond

Despite the cost of shooting down fighter jets and drones, small skirmishes remind both sides of the dangers of escalation, says academic Sergey Radchenko

The Guardian - UK

Astronaut Chris Hadfield explores murder in space in new Cold War space thriller 'Final Orbit' (exclusive)

Hadfield's 'Kaz' Zemeckis returns for this third entry in the bestselling author's 'The Apollo Murders' series

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Donald Trump Is Not a Peace President

Trump struggles to articulate any foreign policy view with much coherence, and has a fragile ego that makes world conflicts all about him.

Reason

We tracked every overseas trip by world leaders since the end of the Cold War – here’s what we found

Donald Trump’s return to the White House has so far seen the U.S. president travel to foreign lands to sign billion-dollar deals, attend lavish royal welcomes and attempt to forge elusive peace agreements amid conflicts and crises. And on Sept. 17, 2025, he is expected to visit the United Kingdom…

The Conversation

Winter of the Crow review – Lesley Manville commands cold war thriller

The Oscar nominee makes for a compelling heroine in a solid and intermittently suspenseful tale of a professor stuck in a nightmare

The Guardian - US

The Defector: KGB agent's defection after Soho drink drive arrest changed the shape of the Cold War

The Evening Standard scooped the world in 1971 with the first and only picture of Russian defector Oleg Lyalin, who is now the subject of a compelling new book

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Cold War bunker goes up for auction near Bristol: ‘Discreetly integrated underground room’

A floor plan shows Room One — the only room

The Independent UK

Xi Jinping accuses West of ‘bullying behaviour’ and ‘Cold War mentality’ at showpiece summit with Putin

The Chinese leader made a thinly veiled swipe at Trump’s tariff policy as he unveiled a new economic vision for non-western countries

The Independent UK

Art and politics are not the same thing – but the Anna Netrebko case shows what happens when they collide

The arts and politics are bound to mix, but they are not the same thing. In the cold war, Soviet artists performed in the west. Should the Russian soprano, who has condemned the Ukraine invasion, be blocked from singing in London?

The Guardian - UK

Trump's Tariffs 'Shredded' Decades Of West's Efforts To Wean India Away From Moscow, Says John Bolton

Former national security adviser John Bolton sharply criticized President Donald Trump's tariff strategy on Monday, arguing it has undermined decades of Western efforts to draw India closer and counter China's rise.

Benzinga

Xi Jinping criticises ‘bullying behaviour’ and Putin blames west for Ukraine war at Shanghai summit

China’s leader urges attendees to oppose ‘cold war mentality’ while Russian president claims Ukraine war was ‘provoked by the west’

The Guardian - AU

China's Xi seeks expanded role for Shanghai Cooperation Organization with development bank

Chinese President Xi Jinping says China would accelerate the building of a SCO development bank as he seeks to expand the organization’s influence and scope

The Independent UK

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater review – cold war chaos reborn with cinematic swagger

Konami’s lavish remake of Hideo Kojima’s PS2 masterpiece swaps in slick controls and stunning visuals, but leaves the eccentric espionage drama as gloriously unhinged as ever

The Guardian - UK

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The Independent UK

Doomsday scenarios after Texas and California go nuclear on redistricting: See how it all plays out

NEWS ANALYSIS: A mid-decade redrawing of congressional maps would have implications far beyond the 2026 midterm elections, write John Bowden and Eric Garcia. The Independent illustrates, with interactive maps by Alicja Hagopian, what’s at stake for control of the US House of Representatives — and potentially the last two years…

Inverse

'Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater' Made Me Question Why Video Games Get Remakes

'Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater' is a competent remake of an all-time classic, but it does lose a bit of the original's vibrant personality in the process.

The Independent UK

What to know about Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula seized by Russia from Ukraine over a decade ago

Russia’s illegal seizure of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine in March 2014 was quick and bloodless, and it sent Moscow’s relations with the West into a downward spiral unseen since the Cold War

Louder

“It became a bit of a curse. We were never really a singles band”: The hypnotic 80s single that gave an apocalyptic post-punk band an unlikely Cold War-inspired hit

When Killing Joke became unlikely pop stars

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The Guardian - UK

As the world hurtles ever closer to nuclear oblivion, where is the opposition?

The puerile standoff between the US and Russia ought to alert a slumbering public to a risk that is in many ways greater than during the cold war, says Simon Tisdall, a Guardian foreign affairs commentator

Fortune

Market liberalism is dead — we need a new NATO for trade

An 80-year economic illusion has ended and the comfortable post-Cold War interlude has given way to a more raw and Hobbesian environment.

The Independent UK

Where Trump and Putin could meet as presidents expected to reunite for Ukraine ceasefire summit

With the summit venue yet to be announced, all eyes are on where the two presidents could meet

The Independent UK

With only one nuclear arms pact left between the US and Russia, a new arms race is possible

For decades, the threat of nuclear conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet Union hung over humanity

Reason

How 'National Security' Came Unmoored From Americans' Actual Security

The turning point was the New Deal.

Latin Times

Russian Official Warns Trump To Remember The 'Dead Hand,' an Automatic Nuclear Trigger If Leaders Are Attacked

Former president of Russia and current deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council Dmitry Medvedev invoked the "Dead Hand," a Cold War nuclear command that allegedly triggers automatic retaliation if Moscow leadership is targeted

The Independent UK

Pope marks 50th anniversary of Cold War-era deal on security and human rights

Pope Leo XIV has called for a renewed commitment to diplomacy to resolve conflicts

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