If there is a Mount Rushmore for NBA teams that feel like symbolic soulmates for their city, then the 2003-2004 Detroit Pistons are on it. This was a…
Read more The 2003-04 Pistons were the champions Detroit neededKYIV – Volodymyr Zelenskyy has fired Vadym Prystaiko as Ukraine’s ambassador to the United Kingdom, after the envoy criticized the Ukrainian president in public. Zelenskyy’s decree, announcing the dismissal…
Read more Zelenskyy fires Ukraine’s ambassador to the UKU.K. Defense Secretary Ben Wallace plans to leave the government at the next Cabinet reshuffle and will not stand in the next general election, he told the Sunday Times…
Read more Ben Wallace to step down as UK defense chief: Sunday TimesPress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. As the United States and its European allies work to make sense of last weekend’s chaos in…
Read more West after Wagner rebellion: Talk softly and help Ukraine carry a bigger stickLONDON — Britain will be ready to train Ukrainian pilots to use Western fighter jets “relatively soon,” but supplying Ukraine with the warplanes it craves is “not a…
Read more Zelenskyy, Sunak push forward on ‘fighter jet coalition’LONDON — The U.K. has delivered long-range missiles to Ukraine in a move which grants Kyiv the ability to strike targets in Russian-occupied Crimea. Britain’s Defense Secretary Ben…
Read more UK confirms it’s delivered long-range missiles to UkraineEurope has special forces on the ground in Ukraine. Poland and Slovenia are providing nearly half of the tanks heading to Kyiv. And Hungary may be letting arms…
Read more Here’s what the leaked US war files tell us about EuropePress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. It’s the rumor inflating the Brussels bubble: The EU’s top executive, Ursula von der Leyen, could be…
Read more A wartime NATO struggles to replace its chiefPress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. WAREHAM, Dorset — Ukrainian fighter pilots will soon be trained in Britain — but Kyiv will have…
Read more UK to train Ukrainian pilots as ‘first step’ toward sending fighter jetsPress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. BRUSSELS — With Ukraine’s partners racing to send more weapons to Kyiv amid an emerging Russian offensive,…
Read more West struggles to deliver on Zelenskyy’s defense wish listLONDON — Seven decades after Britain detonated a nuclear bomb in the Indian Ocean, troops who took part — sometimes unknowingly — in the country’s atomic weapons tests…
Read more Veterans of UK nuclear weapons tests win battle for medalWestern officials welcomed Russia’s retreat from the Ukrainian city of Kherson, labeled a “big moment” by the White House and “another strategic failure” for Moscow by the U.K.…
Read more Russia’s retreat from Kherson hailed by the WestPress play to listen to this article LONDON — If his key appointments are any indication, the Rishi Sunak era in Britain could actually be … kind of…
Read more Rishi Sunak’s ‘keep calm and carry on’ CabinetRussian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu on Sunday had telephone calls with his French, British and Turkish counterparts in which he made unfounded claims that Ukraine might be preparing…
Read more Russia defense chief makes unfounded claims of Kyiv ready to use ‘dirty bomb’Press play to listen to this article LONDON — They were once close allies — two Tory Brexiteers working at the very top of government to steer Britain…
Read more Boris Johnson vs Rishi Sunak: The mother of all leadership battlesLONDON — British Prime Minister Liz Truss described herself as “a fighter and not a quitter” Wednesday as she faced a hostile opposition and fury from her own…
Read more UK PM Truss vows to stay, but is on brink as minister quits
