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January 19, 2026 12:42 PM

Trump says “it will be done” on getting “Russian threat” away from Greenland

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that Denmark has not been able to do anything to get the "Russian threat" away from Greenland, and said, "Now it is time, and it will be done!!!" "NATO has been telling Denmark, for 20 years, that "you have to get Russian threat away from Greenland." Unfortunately, Denmark has been unable to do anything about it," Trump wrote in a post on the social media website he owns called Truth Social. The White House and Denmark's foreign affairs ministry did n...

December 14, 2025 4:58 PM

Ukraine’s Zelenskiy ditches NATO ambition ahead of peace talks

Ukraine has relinquished its ambition of joining the NATO military alliance in exchange for Western security guarantees as a compromise to end the war with Russia, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said ahead of talks with U.S. envoys in Berlin. The move marks a major shift for Ukraine, which has fought to join NATO as a safeguard against Russian attacks and has such an aspiration included in its constitution. It also meets one of Russia's war aims, although Kyiv has so far held firm against ceding...

December 7, 2025 3:49 PM

US sets 2027 deadline for Europe-led NATO defense, officials say

The United States wants Europe to take over the majority of NATO's conventional defense capabilities, from intelligence to missiles, by 2027, Pentagon officials told diplomats in Washington this week, a tight deadline that struck some European officials as unrealistic. The message, recounted by five sources familiar with the discussion, including a U.S. official, was conveyed at a meeting in Washington this week of Pentagon staff overseeing NATO policy and several European delegations. The shi...

November 21, 2025 9:20 AM

Zelenskiy ready for ‘honest’ work on US-backed plan as Europeans push back

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said after talks with a top U.S. Army official on Thursday he was ready for "honest" work with Washington on a plan to end the war in Ukraine, while European allies pushed back against punishing concessions to Russia. According to the U.S.-backed plan, seen by Reuters, Kyiv would be required to give up the entire Donbas region and significantly downsize its military, conditions long seen by Ukraine's allies as tantamount to capitulation. The plan says Ukraine woul...

November 14, 2025 1:28 PM

Trump threatens tariffs on Spain over refusal to boost NATO defense spending

President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened trade penalties, including tariffs, against Spain, saying he is unhappy with its refusal to raise defense spending to 5% and calling the move disrespectful to NATO. "I'm very unhappy with Spain. They're the only country that didn't raise their number up to 5%... so I'm not happy with Spain," Trump told reporters at the White House. "I was thinking of giving them trade punishment through tariffs because of what they did, and I think I may do that," T...

November 4, 2025 3:24 PM

Cyprus mulls Mideast security grouping modelled on NATO, OSCE

Cyprus wants to create a regional organisation to promote security in the Middle East, its president said on Tuesday, saying it could be a platform to anchor stability in one of the world's most volatile neighbourhoods. Discussing the idea publicly for the first time, President Nikos Christodoulides said Nicosia was working on "maturing the necessary political conditions" to create a regional safety and cooperation organisation. "If you like, a sort of NATO or a sort of OSCE of the Middle East...

November 3, 2025 11:16 AM

Trump says no Tomahawks for Ukraine, for now

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that, for now, he is not considering a deal that would allow Ukraine to obtain long-range Tomahawk missiles for use against Russia. Trump has been cool to a plan for the United States to sell Tomahawks to NATO nations that would transfer them to Ukraine, saying he does not want to escalate the war. His latest comments to reporters aboard Air Force One indicate that he remains reluctant. "No, not really," Trump told reporters as he flew to Washin...

October 29, 2025 7:40 PM

US to withdraw some troops from NATO’s eastern flank, Romania says

The United States plans to cut the number of troops stationed on Europe's eastern flank, including soldiers who were to be stationed at Romania's Mihail Kogalniceanu air base, Romania's defence ministry said on Wednesday. The ministry said the decision was expected given changes in Washington's priorities, and that roughly 1,000 U.S. troops would continue to be stationed in Romania. It did not specify how many U.S. troops would be withdrawn. Washington's European allies have been told previous...

October 15, 2025 2:27 PM

Trump threatens tariffs on Spain over refusal to boost NATO defense spending

October 13, 2025 4:53 PM

NATO chief mocks ‘broken’ Russian submarine as Moscow denies malfunction

NATO chief Mark Rutte mocked Russia on Monday over the "limping" condition of one of its submarines as Russian authorities denied it had been forced to surface because of technical problems. Russia's Black Sea Fleet said the diesel-powered submarine Novorossiysk had surfaced off France to comply with navigation rules in the English Channel, and rejected reports it had suffered a serious malfunction. But Dutch authorities said at the weekend that the submarine was under tow in the North Sea. An...