Paul McLeary, Jack Detsch    It wasn’t clear why the Defense secretary issued the order not to send troops on a routine mission to a country the administration refers to as a...

Gregory Svirnovskiy    President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping met on Thursday and discussed topics ranging from market access for U.S. businesses in China...

Alex Gangitano    A Chinese summary of the meeting stressed the self-ruling island was the most important issue in bilateral relations between Washington and Beijing.

Tim Ross    Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is seen as more credible than Labour on the Iran war and the economy and much more likely to win the next general election.

Scott Waldman, Sara Schonhardt    The Iran war is driving countries toward Chinese EVs, solar and batteries strengthening China’s hand as Trump seeks trade wins in Beijing.

Dan Bloom, Patrick Baker    Keir Starmer intends to carry on in the top U.K. job, despite a mounting Labour backlash. POLITICO spoke to battle-scarred veterans to ask how prime...

Phelim Kine, Megan Messerly, Ari Hawkins    President Donald Trump’s ambitions for his summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping have shrunk from grand bargain’ to a plea for help in reopening the...

Tommaso Lecca    Green activists are urging actors and filmmakers to avoid luxury jets, but the industry says private planes are only a small part of the problem.

Dan Bloom, Sam Blewett, Esther Webber, Sam Francis    King Charles heads to Parliament Wednesday to lay out Keir Starmer’s legislative agenda for the new session. After that all bets are off.

Nahal Toosi    Reza Pahlavi urged Trump to finish the job in Iran at the POLITICO Security Summit.

Connor O'Brien    The latest increase comes even as the U.S. says the fighting has largely stopped.

Zoya Sheftalovich    Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares tells POLITICO that Madrid is committed to the transatlantic relationship, but won’t be pushed to renounce our...

Esther Webber    Defence Secretary John Healey made the pledge at a meeting of defense ministers in London on Tuesday.

Giselle Ruhiyyih Ewing    The Senate Armed Services member and former Pentagon official warned the president could easily fall into a trap due to his eagerness to strike a...

Johanna Treeck    Even a resolution of the war before the ECB’s June 11 meeting may not cool energy prices enough for policymakers to stay put, Alexander Demarco...

James Angelos    The chancellor’s attempts to revive his flagging popularity are backfiring.

Riya Misra    The president’s comments come after Trump publicly rejected an offer from Iranian leadership.

Milena Wälde    If Finland can defend itself, NATO can do it too, the Finnish president said.

Sophia Cai, Ry Rivard    The World Cup, swept into Washington’s partisan vortex, splits into red and blue.

Cheyanne M. Daniels    The Israeli prime minister sat for an interview with 60 Minutes, which will air Sunday evening.

Jordyn Dahl    Washington and Tehran have exchanged multiple peace proposals since Pakistan brokered a ceasefire between the two sides in early April.

Jordyn Dahl    Tehran insists that its players and coaches receive visas for the tournament and also is demanding enhanced security and assurances that the Iranian...

Ben Makuch    Military alliance sees clean power as a logical replacement for fossil fuels.

Gregory Svirnovskiy, Phelim Kine    Trump will depart for Beijing in just under a week, alongside a delegation of American CEOs primed to stake out deals with the country’s geopolitical...

Leonie Cater    The attacks on the ships near the Strait of Hormuz cast more doubt on a tenuous ceasefire that the Trump administration insists is still holding.

Leonie Cater    Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has warned that Warsaw should not poach troops from allies.

Daniel Desrochers    The fate of the president’s economic agenda rests with this trade nerd.

Nektaria Stamouli, Eliza Gkritsi    While the U.S. president’s relations with other European countries sour, he is hailing Greece as terrific

Aaron Pellish    The U.S. said it was responding to Iranian forces attacking Navy ships in the Strait of Hormuz.

Zia Weise, Ben Munster    The Commission is poised to weaken enforcement of its methane regulation.

Bartosz BrzeziÅ„ski, Ketrin Jochecová    Fertilizer and fuel prices are surging. Europe’s political response has been muted. Consumers’ real pain is set to arrive with next year’s harvest.