Washington, July 6 (IANS) US President Donald Trump will use this week’s North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) Summit in Ankara to press alliance members to accelerate defence spending and move faster towards the agreed target of spending five per cent of their GDP on defence, according to senior White House officials.Trump will depart Washington on Monday (July 6) evening and arrive in Ankara on Tuesday (July 7) afternoon, where he will be welcomed by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan …
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Washington, June 25 (IANS) NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte credited President Donald Trump with driving a sharp increase in defence spending across the alliance, saying European allies and Canada were investing hundreds of billions of dollars more in security while creating thousands of jobs in the United States.Standing alongside Trump in the Oval Office on Wednesday (local time), Rutte used a series of charts to argue that the President’s sustained pressure on allies had transformed NATO’s a…
Bucharest, May 29 (IANS) A Russian drone entered Romanian airspace and crashed into a residential apartment building, sparking a fire and injuring two people, Romania’s National Defence Ministry announced on Friday.According to the ministry, the injured individuals were taken to the Galati County Emergency Clinical Hospital.It said that during the night from Thursday to Friday, Russia resumed drone attacks against targets in Ukraine, in the vicinity of Romania’s river border.A drone entered Roma…
Washington, May 15 (IANS) Senior US lawmakers and State Department officials warned that China’s growing support for Russia’s war machine is rapidly reshaping how the Baltic states view Beijing, with Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia increasingly treating economic relations with China as a national security issue linked directly to the war in Ukraine.The issue emerged repeatedly during a House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee hearing on Baltic security, where lawmakers described the three NATO front…