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NATO was founded in 1949. Washington: NATO’s 75th-anniversary summit was meant to showcase the triumph of a larger, stronger alliance. Instead, leaders are coming together in Washington in the shadow of setbacks in Ukraine and electoral headwinds on both sides of the Atlantic. US President Joe Biden, fighting for his political life after a disastrous…
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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg speaks during a news conference with Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the State Department on June 18, 2024, in Washington. | Photo Credit: AP NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on June 17 that 23 of the alliance’s 32 members were on track to meet a decade-old pledge to spend…
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Russia’s President Vladimir Putin. | Photo Credit: AFP Russian President Vladimir Putin promised on June 14 to “immediately” order a cease-fire in Ukraine and begin negotiations if Kyiv started withdrawing troops from the four regions annexed by Moscow in 2022 and renounced plans to join NATO. Such a deal appears a nonstarter for Kyiv, which…
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The U.S. is trying to build an Asia-Pacific version of NATO through its Indo-Pacific strategy to maintain its hegemony in the region, a Chinese defence official has said, stressing that Washington’s attempt to serve its “selfish” geopolitical interest is “doomed to fail”. The remarks by Lieutenant General Jing Jianfeng, deputy chief of staff of the…
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NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg. File | Photo Credit: Reuters NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on May 31 dismissed warnings by Russian President Vladimir Putin that allowing Kyiv to use Western weapons for strikes inside Russian territory might lead to an escalation. Speaking on the sidelines of a NATO foreign ministers’ meeting in Prague, Mr. Stoltenberg said…
China has strengthened trade and military ties with Russia in recent years. Berlin: China must stop supporting Russia’s war in Ukraine if it wants to enjoy good relations with the West, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday, warning Beijing in unusually harsh words it cannot have it both ways. During a visit to Berlin,…
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Dnipro, Ukraine: NATO must decide if it is Kyiv’s ally, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday, urging defence ministers from the bloc’s member states to step up arms deliveries to his struggling forces.His appeal to Western partners to provide at least seven more air defence systems came hours after Russia launched a wave of fatal…
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A file photo of former U.S. President Donald Trump and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban | Photo Credit: AP Former U.S. leader Donald Trump will not give money to help Ukraine fight Russia if he wins the presidency again and that will hasten an end to the war, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said after…
A file photo of former U.S. President Donald Trump and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban | Photo Credit: AP Former U.S. leader Donald Trump will not give money to help Ukraine fight Russia if he wins the presidency again and that will hasten an end to the war, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said after…
Thousands of Russians braved the cold for hours earlier this month to honour the Opposition politician Alexei Navalny after his funeral. They chanted anti-war slogans and covered his gravesite with so many flowers that it disappeared from view. It was one of the largest displays of defiance against President Vladimir Putin since he invaded Ukraine,…
