Max Hasting News Today

Challenges to maritime security, especially in choke points like the Red Sea, threaten global trade and present complex, ‘compound security’ issues. These challenges include military threats to navigation that affect energy supplies, economic stability, and efforts to address climate insecurity issues, and especially through energy transition. The United States' Operation Prosperity Guardian seeks to safeguard the waters of the Red Sea and the Bab al Mandeb strait but has had limited su...

Jim Claven discusses the latest book by European historian Halik Kochanski, who provides a comprehensive account of the Resistance movements across Europe, with a particular focus on Greece. Claven describes the book as "monumental."

Some 115 CEOs are reported to have signed a pledge to help fix the government. Will this initiative make a difference?

Remembering a contributor The first time I met Dave Moyer, he was fighting to save a man’s life. It was the first City Council meeting I covered

The Vietnam War shaped all of our lives. I have friends who fought in that war and friends who demonstrated against it. The war, in large measure,

When Nikita Khrushchev, the pudgy Soviet leader, sneaked nuclear weapons onto Cuba in October 1962, barely 90 miles f...

What do the Brittney Griner/Viktor Bout prisoner swap, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Hollywood and a mysterious Russian ship being loaded in Simon’s Town have in common?

At the Publishing Perspectives Forum, on Oct 19-20 at the Frankfurt Book Fair, global book publishing leaders speak on today's trends.

"The war is not over," he answered. "Millions are being killed. Europe is mad. The world is mad." The Falklands War was Britains ot...

Queen Elizabeth II is marking 70 years on the throne, but recent years have been bumpy for the British monarchy. Public support for the institution has fallen, even as the queen remains popular.