The sides are working to arrange the talks during a defense summit in Singapore next month, according to the Wall Street Journal US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe could hold their first ever face-to-face meeting next month, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Monday.

The ruling coalition and a major opposition party have agreed to change the constitution to beef up Berlin’s defense budget Germany’s constitution will be changed to accommodate a new special €100 billion ($107.35 billion) credit-based defense fund, the country’s Finance Minister Christian Lindner has confirmed.

The move is intended to prop up the cause of “democracy” in the country, Oslo’s top diplomat says Norway has adopted a new name for Belarus to be used in official documents, Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt announced on Sunday. The country will now be called Belarus instead of Hviterussland, a historic Norwegian name for the…