Global for Thursday, April 9, 2026

• Trump weighs pulling some US troops from Europe amid NATO strains, official says
• Trump again chides NATO for failing to back US operations in Iran
• UK says it deployed military to deter Russian submarines from attack on undersea cables
• Pentagon’s ouster of Anthropic opens doors for small AI rivals
• Researchers propose ‘rewilding’ Europe’s borderlands to repel enemies
• France mulls fallback tank for delayed MGCS program in defense update