Rubio: US Questioning Future in NATO Over Bloc Sitting Out Iran War

Megacities Are Booming The number of people living in megacities has been growing significantly for decades, rising from 2.5 percent in 1950 to 16.4 percent of city dwellers in 2020. As Statista's Katharina Buchholz reports, according to UN projections, this figure will continue to rise slightly before stabilizing at around the current level by 2050. At the same time, living in smaller cities is becoming less widespread. The share of the urban population living in places with between 50,000 and 500,000 inhabitants fell from 50.8 percent to 38.6 percent during the same period. You will find...

Poland Rejects 'Unofficial' US Request To Redeploy Patriot Batteries To Mideast Via The Cradle Poland has rejected an "unofficial" US request to deploy one of its Patriot air defense systems to West Asia, Polish Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz announced on Tuesday, following reports by Polish daily Rzeczpospolita that Washington had informally approached Warsaw amid rising regional tensions. "Our Patriot batteries and their armaments are used to protect Polish airspace and NATO's eastern flank. Nothing is changing in this regard and we are not planning to move them anywhere!" Kosiniak-Kamysz stated. Still frame via the...

Saudi Coalition Intercepts More Missiles On Riyadh Update(1500ET): Within the last our, loud booms heard in Riyadh as residents told to shelter 'for potential hostile threat' - soon after which authorities announced the threat had passed. FT is reporting the breaking news that-- Saudi-led coalition says it intercepted ballistic missile launched by Houthis towards Riyadh There are conflicting reports that the Houthis may have just launched another major attack on the Saudi capital. However... Saudi Arabia’s civil defence agency has given the all-clear for now to residents of the capital after the military...