Bloomberg The UK plans to bolster its stockpile of nuclear weapons to counter growing threats around the world, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced as he unveiled a radical overhaul of defense and foreign policy. Under a blueprint for the next decade, the UK will cut troop numbers, tanks and some fighter jets, according to a person familiar with the matter, ...

Bloomberg China warned the European Union (EU) not to interfere in its national security affairs, saying any sanctions over human rights abuses — based on “lies” — could fuel the confrontation. “I am deeply concerned about possible sanctions,” China’s ambassador to the EU, Zhang Ming, said during a European Policy Centre event on Tuesday. “If some insist on confrontation, we ...

Bloomberg Russia condemned the US for applying diplomatic pressure on Brazil to reject its Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine, adding that attempts at political meddling in inoculation campaigns were costing lives. The US Department of Health and Human Services said in its annual report published in January that its Office of Global Affairs sought to persuade Brazil not to allow the ...