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Ukraine war spurs record global spending on military, Stockholm think tank says

Global military spending rose to a record last year as Russia's war in Ukraine drove the biggest annual increase in expenditure in Europe since the end of the Cold War three decades ago, a leading conflict and armaments think tank said on Monday.

Reuters

Aaron Rodgers and New York Jets stuck in ‘cold war’ over Green Bay Packers demands

The Green Bay Packers’ former MVP has made it clear he expects to be playing for the New York Jets next year, but all parties involved are facing a race against time to complete a trade

Daily Mirror

WA Premier Mark McGowan ignites war of words with shadow defence minister Andrew Hastie

WA Premier Mark McGowan is caught on camera disparaging shadow defence minister Andrew Hastie, who fires back a verbal salvo of his own accusing Mr McGowan of lacking character.

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Golf's cold war is thawing, say LIV drawcards

LIV stars Brooks Koepka, Bryson DeChambeau, Dustin Johnson believe golf's cold war is thawing ahead of the breakaway tour's inaugural tournament in Australia.

AAP

Approach with caution: why NZ should be wary of buying into the AUKUS security pact

As the strategic rivalry between the United States and China intensifies, the invitation to discuss participation in the AUKUS security agreement presents New Zealand with a potentially momentous decision: how best to secure its own strategic interests and values in the Indo-Pacific region.

The Conversation

Iconic rocket ship playgrounds inspired by Cold War 'propaganda exercise'

Set up during the Space Race, the playgrounds were made to help build the physical strength of young children and foster a fascination with rockets.

ABC News

China’s defence minister and Putin vow to strengthen military cooperation

Li Shangfu travelled to Moscow where he said ties between the countries ‘surpass military-political alliances of the cold war era’

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How George Shultz Helped End the Cold War

The official biography of Ronald Reagan’s secretary of state reveals startling lessons for U.S. engagement today.

Foreign Policy

007 meets the occult: why spies and sorcerers are a perfect fit in fiction

Espionage and magic share codes, secrets and rituals and a new cohort of writers are now casting their literary spells

The Guardian - UK

Fragmented world’s rival blocs may risk new cold war, says IMF head

Warning from Kristalina Georgieva after G7 explores economic resilience, secure global supply chains and less reliance on China

The Guardian - UK

‘Dr. Doom’ Nouriel Roubini warns new cold war with China will 'balkanize' global economy

Fracturing global supply chains to mitigate increasing security risks will push up prices as a Cold War between the U.S. and China gets 'colder by the day'.

Fortune

'The wilderness of mirrors': 70 years since the first James Bond book, spy stories are still blurring fact and fiction

The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning.

The Conversation

Pope evokes cold-war replay, says leaders should avoid arms

Pope Francis has evoked memories of the 1960s Cold War and urged world leaders to use reason, not weapons

The Independent UK

US Summit for Democracy: A vital self-serving tool?

The White House organised the second so-called Summit for Democracy on March 29–30. The US administration co-hosted the second "Summit for Democracy" with Costa Rica, the Netherlands, Republic of Korea and Republic of Zambia.

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The Conversation

Reporting is not espionage – but history shows that journalists doing the former get accused of the latter

The detention of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich in Russia on espionage charges marks an unusual throwback to the old Soviet tactics for handling foreign correspondents.

The New Daily

‘Afraid for his life’: Defector reveals depths of Putin’s paranoia

An ex-Russian security officer has given rare insight into Vladimir Putin's "pathological" fear for his life and his "distorted" grip on reality.

France 24

'Beyond the Wall': The GDR seen from an East German perspective

On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall fell, symbolising the beginning of the end of the Cold War. Plenty of books, essays and documentaries have been devoted to the historic turning point, but hearing from East Germans about how they experienced the four decades of the German Democratic Republic (GDR)…

The New Daily

Finland joins NATO, Russia threatens ‘countermeasures’

Finland has officially joined the NATO alliance in a historic realignment of Europe's post-Cold War landscape triggered by Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.

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Finland joins Nato in a major blow to Putin which doubles the length of the alliance's border with Russia

In 1948, the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance was signed between the Soviet Union and Finland, providing a key basis for relations between the two states that was to last throughout the cold war. With memories of the 1939 “winter war” between the two still acute, the agreement…

Newsroom.co.nz

The Swiss holes in anti-Aukus rhetoric

The New Zealand public deserves a debate over growing militarisation in our region, and what it would mean to become a "Switzerland of the South Pacific".

The Conversation

Mongolia: squeezed between China and Russia fears 'new cold war'

Mongolia’s prime minister, Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene, recently expressed his country’s fear that the world is heading towards a new cold war as the relations between Russia and China and the west – particularly Nato – have taken a turn for the worse. “It’s like a divorce,” he said. “When the parents…

The Week

Evan Gershkovich: what does Russia want from jailing US citizens?

A Wall Street Journal reporter has become the latest US citizen to be detained in Russia but the first overseas journalist to be arrested there for alleged espionage since the Cold War.

Los Angeles Times

What makes Tetris 'the perfect game'? Experts break down an addictive classic

The real story behind how Tetris became a video game phenomenon is more compelling than most imagined narratives.

The Guardian - UK

My friend Evan Gershkovich is no spy. Just a brave reporter jailed in Moscow

The US journalist arrested last week is the first to be accused of espionage in Russia since the cold war

The Independent UK

Explorer who found Titanic tells of Cold War mission that helped find ship

In Belfast a new gallery, Ballard’s Quest, tells the story of his discovery.

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