NATO chief pitches monthly billions on weapons for Kiev

The military bloc should ramp up purchases of US weapons for Ukraine, Mark Rutte has claimed NATO countries should spend at least €1 billion ($1.17 billion) a month on weapons for Ukraine next year, the military bloc’s secretary-general, Mark Rutte, has claimed.  The call comes amid US-mediated peace efforts to…

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The ball is in Trump’s court, and he seems serious about achieving peace – but there’s a lot of work ahead US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner have met with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow. The approximately five-hour session…

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Scott Bessent has called the outlet a “fever swamp,” accusing it of publishing fake stories about President Donald Trump’s mental health The New York Times is no longer a credible newspaper, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said, accusing the outlet of misleading and biased reporting on President Donald Trump’s…

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Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot has warned of “disastrous consequences” of the proposed ‘reparations’ loan for Ukraine using frozen Russian money Belgium has rejected European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen’s latest plan to seize Russia’s immobilized central bank assets to arm Ukraine. The country’s Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot has warned…

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Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has pointed to the widening geography of the Ukraine crisis The recent naval drone attacks on vessels off Türkiye’s Black Sea coast, reportedly carried out by Ukraine, could make the region inaccessible to trade and human transport, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has warned. In…

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The Arrow 3 system was handed over to Berlin by the Israeli Defense Ministry’s director-general, whose parents survived the Nazi Holocaust Israel has handed over the first operational Arrow 3 system to the German military at a formal ceremony at an air force base near Berlin. The move comes as…

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A fraud probe targeting Federica Mogherini has ramped up pressure on the bloc chief, already dogged by the ‘Pfizergate’ controversy A corruption probe into former EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini has thrown European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s position into jeopardy, with opponents preparing to turn the affair…

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