Category: International Security

International Security includes military and diplomatic measures that nations and international organizations ‒ such as the United Nations and NATO ‒ take to ensure their safety and security.

A revised Cybersecurity Act to strengthen the EU’s cybersecurity resilience and capabilities

The European Commission on Monday, January 19, 2026, proposed a new cybersecurity package to strengthen the European Union’s cybersecurity resilience and capabilities in the face of these growing number of attacks.

A proposal for a revised Cybersecurity Act enhances the security of the EU’s Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) supply chains. It ensures that products reaching EU citizens are cyber-secure by design through a simpler certification process. It also facilitates compliance with existing EU cybersecurity rules and reinforces the EU Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) in supporting Member States and the EU in managing cybersecurity threats.

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European Commission strengthens EU cybersecurity resilience and capabilities: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_105

Europe is again considering setting up the equivalent of a UN Security Council

EU officials and leaders are getting behind the idea, while lawmakers are drafting legal options.

“We lack a proper united leadership platform to discuss the most important European defense issues,” EU Defense Commissioner Andrius Kubilius said last week. “It’s now an urgent task to turn this idea into reality.”

Sergey Lagodinsky, a German European Parliament lawmaker and vice president of the Greens group, is proposing a council gathering the leaders of Europe’s big six — Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Poland and the U.K. — alongside two rotating seats for smaller countries and the European Parliament president.

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Canada should join European countries to show strong solidarity with Greenland, Denmark, and NATO

Trump faces off with NATO allies over Greenland

Trump’s text message on Sunday, January 18, 2026, to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, stating he no longer feels “an obligation to think purely of peace” after he failed to win Norway’s Nobel Peace Prize, was confirmed by Prime Minister Støre.

Trump questioned Denmark’s claim to Greenland and said he would put American interests first. “The world is not secure unless we have complete and total control of Greenland,” Trump wrote.

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FAA warns pilots to exercise caution over Mexico, Central America, eastern Pacific, citing ‘military activities’

The Federal Aviation Administration on Friday, January 16, 2026, urged US aircraft operators to “exercise caution” when flying over the eastern Pacific Ocean near Mexico, Central America and parts of South America, citing “military activities” and possible satellite navigation interference.

The warning was issued in a series of Notices to Airmen (NOTAMs) issued by the FAA. They say, “Potential risks exist for aircraft at all altitudes, including during overflight and the arrival and departure phases of flight.” The alerts are in effect for 60 days. Such notices are issued routinely in any region where there are hostilities nearby.

Source: AP https://apnews.com/article/faa-flight-warnings-pacific-ocean-dd0cbe105d75f6d8acf16f02884865c0

Lithuania accused Russia’s GRU of the attempted arson on a plant that supplies Ukraine’s army

Lithuanian authorities accused Russia’s GRU military intelligence service on Friday, January 16, 2026, of masterminding the attempted arson attacks of a plant that supplies radio wave scanners to Ukraine’s army.

The group that coordinated the attack was made up of Colombian and Cuban citizens living in Russia, and had attempted similar arson attacks. They had targeted oil infrastructure in Romania, construction warehouses in Poland and buses, a post office, and a cinema in the Czech Republic.

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Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, France, and the UK are sending troops to Greenland [Updated]

Amid continued threats by Trump to annex Greenland, the territory of Denmark, a fellow NATO member, multiple outlets report Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and Canada are sending troops to Greenland.

The deployment is not meant to spark a confrontation against the US, but a measure to ensure the common security interests of all NATO partners.

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Something is brewing along the Colombia‒Venezuela border

Around 4:40 a.m. on Jan. 6, just a few days after the US capture of Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, armed men intercepted a bus carrying civilians and several policemen on the main highway near Tibú, a town on the Colombian side of the border with Venezuela. They ordered passengers to hand over their phones for inspection, and then proceeded to kidnap five police officers.

The assailants were members of the National Liberation Army, or E.L.N., a Colombian guerrilla group that started off mounting a leftist insurgency in the 1960s but has since expanded into criminal enterprises. As many as half of its roughly 6,300 fighters are now based in Venezuela, where they have, at least until this month, enjoyed an alliance of mutual convenience with the government.

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Pentagon is integrating Grok AI into classified networks

US Secretary of War Hegseth announced Monday January 12, 2026 that Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok will be integrated into Pentagon classified systems and will join Google’s generative AI engine in operating within the Pentagon’s infrastructure.

The current administration’s aggressive embrace of developing AI technology contrasts sharply with former President Joe Biden administration’s cautious approach, which emphasized safeguards and responsible-use guidelines.

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Chatham House Director warns ‘This does mark the end of the Western alliance’

Bronwen Maddox, Director and Chief Executive of the Chatham House international affairs think-tank, gave her annual lecture at the institution’s London headquarters on January 13, 2026, said, ‘We have had from President Trump what amounts to a revolution. He has given the US a radically new role in the world and – at the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence – a role that rejects the principles on which the US was founded: that government should be accountable to the people.’

Maddox added, ‘Most profound, we have had the rejection of principles of international law that the US helped forge – even if it often declined to apply those to itself. Venezuela brandished that rejection to the world, followed by the President’s intention to acquire Greenland.

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