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11/07/2024
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President Joe Biden speaks during the opening session of the NATO Summit, Wednesday, July 10, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

NATO agrees to take on coordination of some Ukraine security support. How that will work

WASHINGTON (AP) — NATO has agreed to launch a new program to provide reliable military aid and training to Ukraine and help it get ready to join the alliance.

Jacek Siewiera, head of Poland's National Security Bureau and the security adviser to President Andrej Duda, speaks during an interview on the first day of the NATO Summit Tuesday, July 9, 2024, in Washington,(AP Photo/Mike Pesoli)

Poland hopes new NATO training center could prepare Ukrainians living abroad to fight Russia

Poland is hoping a new NATO training center in the country can help recruit more volunteers for the fight in Ukraine.

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer, left, meets with U.S. President Joe Biden at the White House in Washington, D.C, during his visit to the United States to attend the NATO 75th anniversary summit, Wednesday, July 10, 2024. (Stefan Rousseau/Pool Photo via AP)

In international debut, new UK PM Starmer offers strong support for Ukraine at NATO summit

Newly elected British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has made his maiden appearance on the international stage with a strong signal of support for Ukraine and a pat on the back from President Joe Biden.

President Joe Biden and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, right, stand on stage to welcome leaders to the NATO Summit, Wednesday, July 10, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Ukraine is on an ‘irreversible’ path to NATO. But only after war with Russia ends

The 32-members of NATO are formally declaring that Ukraine is on an “irreversible” path to membership in the Western military alliance, offering a bare but more binding assurance of protection once its war with Russia ends.

President Joe Biden, front row center, poses during a family photo with allied heads of state and government before delivering opening remarks on the 75th anniversary of NATO at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium, Tuesday, July 9, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

NATO allies commit to sending dozens of air defense systems to Ukraine, including four Patriots

The U.S. and an array of other NATO allies will send Ukraine dozens of air defense systems in the coming months, including at least four of the powerful Patriot systems that Kyiv has been desperately seeking to help fight off Russian advances in the war.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks at the Ronald Reagan Institute on the sideline of NATO Summit in Washington, Tuesday, July 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Zelenskyy says the world cannot wait until the US election in November to take action to repel Putin

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the world must not wait for November to drive back Russia’s offensive against his country.

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the 75th anniversary of NATO at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium, Tuesday, July 9, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Ukraine opens DC weapons office and Europe bolsters defense spending as November US election looms

NATO countries are moving to shore up their weapons production capabilities as a hedge against the November presidential vote, signing a nearly $700 million contract for more Stinger missiles and making pledges to boost their own defense production.

People walk inside of the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, which has been decorated with signage in preparation for the NATO Summit, Monday, July 8, 2024. New Zealand, Japan, South Korea and Australia are sending leaders or their deputies to the NATO summit in Washington this week as the military alliance shows growing interest beyond Europe and the Western Hemisphere. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

To counter China, NATO and its Asian partners are moving closer under US leadership

New Zealand, Japan, South Korea and Australia are sending leaders or their deputies to the NATO summit in Washington this week as the military alliance shows growing interest beyond Europe and the Western Hemisphere.

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the 75th anniversary of NATO at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium, Tuesday, July 9, 2024, in Washington. The Biden administration is imposing tariffs on steel and aluminum shipped from Mexico that were made elsewhere. It's an attempt to stop China from avoiding import taxes by routing goods through one of the United States’ closest trading partners. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden spotlights support for NATO as he looks to use summit to help reset stumbling campaign

NATO leaders gather in Washington and confront the prospect of Donald Trump’s return to the White House.

FILE - From left, Lithuania's President Gitanas Nauseda, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, President Joe Biden, Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pose during a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council during a NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, July 12, 2023. U.S. President Joe Biden and his NATO counterparts are meeting in Washington this week to mark the 75th anniversary of the world's biggest security organization just as Russia presses its advantage on the battlefield in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)

NATO leaders are descending on Washington. Here’s what to know

NATO leaders meet this week for a summit commemorating the 75th anniversary of the military alliance, which has never been larger and more focused.

President Joe Biden walks across the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Sunday, July 7, 2024, after returning from a trip to Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden’s focus shifts to this week’s NATO summit. But questions about his campaign may only intensify

President Joe Biden will shift this week from focusing on campaigning for reelection to hosting a NATO summit.

FILE - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, left, greets Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte during arrivals for a NATO summit at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Monday, June 14, 2021. The United States is the most powerful member of NATO. It spends much more on defense than any other ally and far outweighs its partners in terms of military muscle. NATO's day-to-day work is led by its secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg, until he is replaced on Oct. 1, 2024 by Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, Pool, File)

What to know about the NATO military alliance and how it is helping Ukraine

President Joe Biden and his Western counterparts are meeting in Washington this week to mark the 75th anniversary of NATO.

FILE - President Donald Trump speaks during the NATO summit, Dec. 4, 2019, in Watford, England. NATO allies are gathering in Washington for a summit this week, and the prospect that former President Trump, the military alliance's most prominent critic, may return to power is dominating discussions. President Joe Biden's shaky performance in the presidential debate last month escalated doubts about his reelection. It's given rise to the term

Can you ‘Trump-proof’ NATO? As Biden falters, Europeans look to safeguard the military alliance

NATO allies are gathering in Washington for a summit this week, and the prospect that Donald Trump, the military alliance’s most prominent critic, may return to power is dominating discussions.

FILE - President Joe Biden, left, speaks at an event with G7 leaders and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during the NATO Summit, in Vilnius, Lithuania, July 12, 2023. United States President Joe Biden and his counterparts meet in Washington for a three-day summit beginning Tuesday, July 9, 2024 to mark the military alliance's 75th anniversary, with Russian troops pressing their advantave along Ukraine's eastern front in the third year of war. (Paul Ellis/Pool Photo via AP, File)

NATO leaders will vow to pour weapons into Ukraine for another year, but membership is off the table

NATO leaders plan to pledge to keep pouring arms and ammunition into Ukraine at current levels for at least another year. U.S.

FILE - Flags of NATO member countries blow in the wind outside at NATO headquarters in Brussels, March 14, 2024. A survey of people in 13 of the nations belonging to NATO found about 6 in 10 of them held a favorable view of the Western military alliance, the Pew Research Center said Tuesday, July 2. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Survey finds popular support for NATO at a challenging time for the Western alliance

A new survey by Pew Research Center finds public support for NATO in some of the countries belonging to the Western military alliance. The survey was released Tuesday.

FILE - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, right, greets Netherland's Prime Minister Mark Rutte during arrivals for a NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, Tuesday, July 11, 2023. NATO on Wednesday, June 26, 2024 appointed Mark Rutte as its next secretary-general, putting the outgoing Dutch prime minister in charge of the world's biggest security organization at a critical time for European security as war rages in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)

Mark Rutte is named NATO chief. He’ll need all his consensus-building skills from Dutch politics

Mark Rutte knows a thing or two about finding consensus among fractious coalition partners. He’s learned it over the course of more than a dozen years at the top of Dutch politics.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Romanian Foreign Minister Luminița-Teodora Odobescu shake hands after signing a memorandum of understanding during a ceremony in the Treaty Room at the State Department, Friday, June 21, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

US thanks Romania for its leader exiting the NATO leadership race to clear the way for Rutte

The Biden administration has thanked Romania for its president withdrawing from the race to lead NATO, saying the move would help ensure the Western military alliance stays properly focused.

FILE- NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, left, greets Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte during arrivals for a NATO summit at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Monday, June 14, 2021. Over the course of more than a dozen years at the top of Dutch politics, Mark Rutte got to know a thing or two about finding consensus among fractious coalition partners. Now he's going to bring the experience of leading four Dutch multiparty governments to the international stage as NATO's new secretary general. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, Pool)

‘Teflon Mark’ Rutte set to bring consensus-building skills from Dutch politics as next NATO chief

Mark Rutte has gotten to know a thing or two about finding consensus among fractious coalition partners over the course of more than a dozen years at the top of Dutch politics.

Romanian President klaus Iohannis exits a voting cabin during European and local elections in Bucharest, Romania, Sunday, June 9, 2024. Voters across the European Union are going to the polls on the final day of voting for the European parliamentary elections to choose their representatives for the next five-year term. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

And then there was one: Mark Rutte. Romania’s president withdraws from the race for NATO chief

Romania’s president has withdrawn from the race to become NATO’s next secretary general. It leaves outgoing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte all but certain to head the world’s biggest military organization from October.

Jordan Bardella, president of the far-right National Front party, arrives at the Eurosatory Defense and security exhibition, Wednesday, June 19, 2024 in Villepinte, north of Paris. Jordan Bardella, the National Rally president hoping to become France's prime minister, appealed Tuesday to voters to hand his party a clear majority after French President Emmanuel Macron's announcement on June 9 that he was dissolving France's National Assembly, parliament's lower house.( AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Far-right leader Bardella backpedals on taking France out of NATO strategic military command

The far-right leader angling to become France’s prime minister after the country’s upcoming parliamentary election has backtracked on the party’s previous promise to pull out of NATO’s strategic military command.

Netherland's Prime Minister Mark Rutte addresses the media at the end of an EU summit in Brussels, early Tuesday, June 18, 2024. Leaders of European Union countries on Monday reached no final agreement on candidates for the bloc's top jobs, but several praised the record of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and she appeared on track to secure their endorsement later this month for a second term in office. (AP Photo/Omar Havana)

Dutch leader Mark Rutte clears a big hurdle to becoming NATO chief after Hungary lifts objections

Hungary has lifted its veto on Mark Rutte becoming the next head of NATO. The move came after the Dutch prime minister gave written guarantees that he would not force Hungary to take part NATO’s new plans to provide support to Ukraine.

President Joe Biden meets with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in the Oval Office at the White House, Monday, June 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

NATO allies hitting their defense spending target jump from 6 to 23 as Ukraine war grinds on

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says a record 23 of NATO’s 32 member nations are hitting the Western military alliance’s defense spending target this year as Russia’s war in Ukraine has raised the threat of expanding conflict in Europe.

United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, front center, shakes hands with Germany's Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, center row left, during a group photo of NATO defense ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Friday, June 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

NATO approves a plan to speed security aid and training to Ukraine’s beleaguered armed forces

NATO defense ministers have approved a plan to provide reliable long-term security aid and military training for Ukraine.

Canada's Defense Minister Bill Blair, center, speaks with Estonia's Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur, left, and Finland's Defense Minister Antti Hakkanen during a meeting of the North Atlantic Council in NATO defense ministers format at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Friday, June 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Canada’s defense investment plans put it on track to meet NATO guideline, minister says

Canadian Defense Minister Bill Blair says his country looks on track to meet NATO’s military spending guideline by 2030.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, center, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Charles Brown, right, speak with Ukraine's Defense Minister Rustem Umerov during a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group in the format of NATO defense ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, June 13, 2024. NATO defense ministers gathered Thursday hoping to agree on a new plan to provide long-term security assistance and military training to Ukraine, after Hungary promised not to veto the scheme as long as it's not forced to take part. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

NATO defense ministers thrash out new security aid and training support plan for Ukraine

NATO defense ministers are trying to agree on a new plan to provide long-term security assistance and military training to Ukraine.

FILE - Ethnic Albanian refugees cheer as a British tank passes next to the Stenkovec refugee camp near Skopje, Macedonia on its way to Kosovo Saturday, June 12, 1999. NATO troops entered Kosovo on June 12, 1999. A military parade and celebratory speeches, a new statue of former British prime minister, and visits from many international officials have marked Kosovo’s 25th anniversary of withdrawal of Serb forces after NATO’s air campaign Wednesday, June 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski, File)

Kosovo marks the 25th anniversary of its liberation, when Serb forces withdrew after NATO bombing

Kosovo is celebrating what it considers a liberation day, marking the 25th anniversary of the withdrawal of Serb forces after a NATO bombing campaign.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, right, and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg hold a press conference following their meeting in the government headquarters in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, June 12, 2024. (Zoltan Mathe/MTI via AP)

Hungary agrees not to veto NATO support to Ukraine as long as it’s not forced to help out

Hungary has agreed not to veto NATO support for Ukraine. But Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is refusing to provide funds or military personnel for any joint assistance effort.

FILE - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban speaks during a press conference with his Sweden's counterpart Ulf Kristersson at the Carmelite Monastery in Budapest, Hungary, on Feb 23, 2024. Hungary's prime minister says that he will seek to opt his country out of any NATO operations aimed at supporting Ukraine. Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told state radio on Friday, May 24, 2024 that Hungary opposes a plan NATO is weighing to provide more predictable military support to Ukraine. (AP Photo/Denes Erdos, File)

Hungary will seek to opt out of NATO efforts to support Ukraine, Orbán says

Hungary’s prime minister says that he will seek to opt his country out of any NATO operations aimed at supporting Ukraine.

President Joe Biden meets with Romania's President Klaus Iohannis in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, May 7, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Biden hosts Romanian leader at the White House to celebrate NATO partnership

President Joe Biden has hosted Klaus Iohannis, the president of Romania, at the White House. The two leaders on Tuesday celebrated their joint cooperation on issues including international security, the economy and continued support for Ukraine.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg talks during his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv Ukraine, Monday, April 29, 2024. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

NATO members ‘deeply concerned’ by activities such as sabotage on alliance soil. They blame Russia

NATO countries say they are deeply concerned by a campaign of hybrid activities on the military alliance’s soil they attribute to Russia, and which they say constitute a threat to their security.

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