Considers strains in between the United States and the European members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The fight over who should become secretary general, NATO's top job; Resignation by Willy Claes in October 1995; Candidates including Ruud Lubbers, Uffe Ellemann-Jensen and ...
(NATO) officials say formal talks on Woerner's successor are not likely to begin until September, giving members of the 16-nation alliance a little breathing space for private consultations.Names mentioned as likely secretary-general candidates include: Thorvald Stoltenberg, the United Nations chief ...
Last week, Turkey said documents it received from Sweden and NATO in response to the earlier written demands it presented to the two candidates were far from meeting its expectations and any negotiations must first address Turkish concerns. While describing the Monday meetings with the three countrie...
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says it will make Helsinki “safer”. He added that it will also make “our alliance (NATO) stronger”. Contrary to what Stoltenberg says, these are dangerous developments for Finland as well as Sweden, which is expected to join NATO soon as well. The...
US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth presented some realities and conditions for peace that burst the bubble of deception – which has kept the war going. Hegseth argued there would be no NATO membership for Ukraine, Ukraine would not recover its territories, and the US would not offer any sec...
Candidates fire 50 9mm rounds at targets that are between 6-25 meters away. The CPU uses International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC) targets. Only shots within the “A zone” are counted. The minimum standard is 40 hits. Competitive candidates, however, must aspire for 48+. ...
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has placed the army on full combat alert and ordered units to move closer to the border. Serbs refused to take part in the local elections in April and ethnic Albanian candidates won the mayoralties in four Serb-majority municipalities with a 3.5% turnout...
Inspired by the candidates that had already joined the EU, some of Russia’s biggest critics, the aim was to repel the Russian threat, indeed transform these countries into “buffer states”. It was a mixture of boldness and naivety that saw the European Union ventu...
In a testy exchange with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Trump took issue with the U.S. protecting Germany when the European nation is making deals with Russia. The president appeared to be referring to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline that would bring gas from Russia to Germany's northeast...
candidate Donald Trumpassailed Jewish journalistswithanti-Semitic messages, the Republican Jewish Coalition issued a condemnation Tuesday of what it described as “the troubling increase of anti-Semitic invective directed toward journalists covering both the Democratic and Republican candidates for president....