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US Senator Chris Van Hollen is calling on European and other ICC member states to sanction Trump and Rubio for obstructing the court’s Israel war crime investigations. Trump has meanwhile urged all 125 ICC member states to withdraw from the court.
Canada moved closer to France and Norway on space, quantum science, artificial intelligence and defence on 20 September 2026, with five agreements signed in Ottawa.
The Pentagon is weighing a cut of 25,000 to 40,000 US troops from Europe, the largest since the 1990s, while Poland, France and Lithuania report a rising Russian threat.
Lithuania says it shares allied intelligence that Russia may stage an operation to blame another country. Latvia’s president says Russia is testing Europe with sabotage, cyberattacks and drones, warning many NATO states would struggle to stop a Russian missile salvo.
European intelligence indicates Russia is planning drone and missile strikes against one or several NATO countries on the eastern flank, potentially disguising them as “accidents” to test whether NATO will invoke Article 5. Officials warned late autumn and winter could be the most critical phase.
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed making Canada the EU’s first “associate member,” opening the door to potentially trillions of dollars in deeper integration across trade, technology, defence, energy, the Arctic and critical minerals.
Fourteen days of scrambles over Estonia, Poland and Romania, a drone that flew 160 kilometres into Nato airspace minutes before Zelenskyy's aircraft took off, and the first shootdown over Lithuania
Finland became the 10th state in France's forward nuclear deterrence initiative on 14 September, an arrangement outside NATO and U.S. control.
Canada and Poland renewed their Defence Cooperation Agreement at Kielce, covering Arctic training, joint exercises and Polish drone sales to Canada.
Canada and the EU are working toward a stronger and more extensive trade and security relationship to be announced at von der Leyen's European Parliament state of the union address on 16 September. Carney will address the European Parliament the next day.
Right-wing extremists won 39 of 83 Magdeburg seats—three short of a majority. Days before the vote, two candidates were searched over a banned Nazi sect; four staff are former neo-Nazi youth members. AfD backs ending Russian sanctions, expelling migrants and restoring Nord Stream gas.
Investigators have identified two of the Leipzig suspects, are looking for at least four and doubt any will be arrested. Russia's Bonn consulate shut on 1 September and has promised a harsh response
