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Officials to test water from Ohio village near Cold War-era weapons plant after newspaper probe

Authorities in Ohio plan to test the water supply across a small village near a former weapons plant after a newspaper investigation published Friday found high levels of radioactivity in samples taken at a school, athletic field, library and other sites

The Independent UK

Michael Beckley: China Is Dangerously Weak

The Danger Zone co-author joins the show to discuss China's peaking power, and why that actually makes them more dangerous.

Reason

Vera Farmiga to star opposite Russell Crowe in Cold War thriller Billion Dollar Spy

Vera Farmiga has joined Russell Crowe and Harry Lawtey in Walden Media's upcoming Cold War thriller 'Billion Dollar Spy'.

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A Look at the Obscure Cold War Law Revived in Deportation Case Against Pro-Palestinian Activist

The Trump administration is using a rarely invoked Cold War-era immigration statute to justify the potential deportation of Mahmoud Khalill

Latin Times

When Did China Stop Being A US Ally And What Would Happen If They Enter A Trade War

Once Cold War teammates, the US and China split over trade and power. A 100% tariff war, threatened 8 April 2025, could cost households £2,978 ($3,800) yearly and shake the globe.

International Business Times UK

Noteworthy and influential people who've died this year

The world said goodbye last month to someone who made history as the first Black Republican woman elected to Congress

The Independent UK

Lammy to urge allies to boost defence spending to make Nato ‘more lethal’

It comes after the UK announced the largest sustained increase to defence spending since the Cold War.

The Independent UK

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US bans government personnel in China from romantic or sexual relations with Chinese citizens

The U.S. government has banned American government personnel in China, as well as family members and contractors with security clearances, from any romantic or sexual relationships with Chinese citizens

The Independent UK

'Top Gun' And Batman Star Val Kilmer Dies Aged 65: New York Times

Prolific American actor Val Kilmer, who was propelled to fame with "Top Gun" and went on to starring roles as Batman and Jim Morrison, has died at age 65, the New York Times reported Tuesday.

International Business Times

Sweden plans largest military buildup since the Cold War amid Russia threat and uncertain US-EU ties

Sweden’s prime minister says his government wants to ramp up defense spending to a target of 3.5% of the Nordic country’sgross domestic product, marking its largest military buildup since the Cold War

The Independent UK

Sweden To Boost Defence Spending $30 Bn Over A Decade

Sweden will increase defence spending by about 300 billion kronor ($30 billion) over the next decade, the prime minister said Wednesday, calling it the nation's biggest rearmament push since the Cold War.

International Business Times

Putin wants US ‘recognition’ of Russian gains in Ukraine: Historian

Russian-British historian Sergey Radchenko talks to Al Jazeera about Moscow’s desire for status on the world stage.

Al Jazeera

Are spheres of influence making a comeback on the international stage?

While the concept lost some of its relevance at the end of the Cold War, it is back in the spotlight with the return of Donald Trump and the war in Ukraine.

Euronews

Oleg Gordievsky, a KGB spy who defected to the UK in the Cold War, dies at 86

Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer who helped change the course of the Cold War by covertly passing secrets to the UK, has died at home in England.

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The Independent UK

KGB defector and Cold War spy Oleg Gordievsky dies age 86

Top KGB defector and Cold War spy found dead at home aged 86

Evening Standard

Oleg Gordievsky: the spy who helped avert a nuclear war

The ex-KGB officer’s intelligence was crucial to Margaret Thatcher’s contacts with Mikhail Gorbachev, whose rise to power helped end the Cold War.

The Independent UK

Top KGB defector and Cold War spy found dead at home aged 86

Code-named Hetman, Oleg Gordievsky was one of the Cold War’s most important spies

Evening Standard

Top KGB defector Oleg Gordievsky dies aged 86

Code-named Hetman, Oleg Gordievsky was one of the most important spies of the Cold War.

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The Independent UK

Oleg Gordievsky, Britain's most valuable Cold War spy inside the KGB, dies at 86

Former KGB officer Oleg Gordievsky has died aged 86 in England

The Independent UK

Newly released JFK assassination files reveal more about CIA but don't yet point to conspiracies

Newly released documents related to President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963 are giving curious readers more details Wednesday into Cold War-era covert U.S. operations in other nations but didn’t initially lend credence to long-circulating conspiracy theories about who killed JFK

The Independent UK

Why Crimea is coveted by both Russia and Ukraine - and the role it plays in the war

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed to retake the Crimean Peninsula after Russia’s seizure exactly 11 years ago

The Conversation

Nuclear deterrence: can Britain and France take on America’s role in defending Europe against Russian aggression?

European doubts about deterrence predate the current US administration. Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, and its growing reliance on nuclear coercion to ward off Nato support, brought the importance of nuclear weapons to the foreground again for the first time since the cold war.

The Conversation

The US military has cared about climate change since the dawn of the Cold War – for good reason

In 1957, Hollywood released “The Deadly Mantis,” a B-grade monster movie starring a praying mantis of nightmare proportions. Its premise: Melting Arctic ice has released a very hungry, million-year-old megabug, and scientists and the U.S. military will have to stop it.

Reason

The Cold War Broadcasting Apparatus Should Shut Down

Dissidents resisting authoritarian regimes should be independent of the United States—and so should their media sources.

The Guardian - US

Republican Russophilia: how Trump Putin-ised a party of cold war hawks

The idea of Moscow as a paragon of Christian nationalism has penetrated the party of Reagan – and the lurch in US policy has huge implications for the global order

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