Oct 12 NATO Secretary-General Stoltenberg presses Turkey to advance Sweden’s membership application By Lorne Cook, Associated Press Stoltenberg is pressing Turkey to quickly ratify Sweden's membership in the military organization. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said three months ago that he would help hasten the process in the Turkish parliament. Continue reading
Oct 11 Zelenskyy meets with NATO defense ministers seeking more support to fight Russia By Lorne Cook, Lolita Baldor, Associated Press Political support in the U.S. for the war has been lagging, and allies are under pressure to send weapons to bolster Israel in its war with Hamas. Continue reading
Oct 11 Finland police investigate undersea gas pipeline leak as possible sabotage By Associated Press Finland's National Bureau of Investigation, or NBI, says it has started gathering evidence at the location of the leak, which was detected Sunday on the Balticconector pipeline connecting the two NATO allies. Continue reading
Oct 09 An independent inquiry opens into alleged unlawful killings by UK special forces in Afghanistan By Sylvia Hui, Associated Press An independent inquiry has opened in the U.K. to examine claims that British special forces murdered dozens of Afghan men during counterinsurgency operations in Afghanistan a decade ago. Continue reading
Sep 30 Watch 1:11 News Wrap: New Yorkers begin drying out after day of intense flooding In our news wrap Saturday, New York City remains under a state of emergency after Friday’s record rainfall overwhelmed the city’s drainage system and turned roadways into rivers, and the White House is sounding the alarm about a build-up of… Continue watching
Sep 30 Ukraine hosts global defense industry forum, seeking to ramp up weapons production By Hanna Arhirova, Associated Press Ukraine hosted an international defense industry conference as part of a government effort to ramp up weapons production within the country to repel Russia's full-scale invasion and reduce foreign dependence on arms deliveries. Continue reading
Sep 28 Watch 4:54 News Wrap: American soldier who fled to North Korea returned to U.S. In our news wrap Thursday, an American soldier who ran away to North Korea has been returned to the U.S., NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg urged the allies to provide Ukraine with more air defense systems and scientists in Switzerland sounded… Continue watching
Sep 26 At UN, North Korea says the U.S. made 2023 more dangerous and accuses it of fomenting an Asian NATO By Ted Anthony, Associated Press Kim Song also denounced both U.S. and South Korean leaders for "hysterical remarks of confrontation" that it says are raising the temperature in the region. Continue reading
Sep 25 What is behind renewed tensions between Serbia and Kosovo? By Dusan Stojanovic, Associated Press There are fears in the West of a revival of the 1998-1999 war in Kosovo that claimed more than 10,000 lives and left over 1 million homeless. Continue reading
Aug 28 Poland, Baltic states warn they could seal borders with Belarus if military, migrant tensions grow By Monika Scislowska, Associated Press NATO members Poland and the Baltic states say they will seal off their borders with Russia's ally Belarus if there are any military incidents or a massive migrant push by Minsk. Continue reading