Norway scrambled two of its F-35 jets on February 4, after two Russian TU-95 Bear H Bomber Aircraft escorted by two Flanker-D flew close to NATO airspace in the High North. The Norwegian pilots ...

Norwegian F-35s were scrambled to monitor the planes (Picture: AFP) Two Norwegian jets rushed to respond after four Russian planes flew dangerously close to NATO airspace yesterday. The Russian TU ...

Liberal leadership contender Mark Carney says if he becomes prime minister, he would meet the NATO defence spending benchmark two years ahead of the Trudeau government's official target.

In a new interview with British journalist Piers Morgan, President Volodymyr Zelensky argued that nuclear weapons could be a sufficient security guarantee for Ukraine if the nation isn’t granted ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Jens Stoltenberg, the new Minister of Finance in Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre’s new government looks ...

NATO's secretary general is downplaying the threat of a trade war between the United States and Canada — two founding members of the Western military alliance — as a dispute that could be ...

On July 18, 1955, 158 members of parliament from the then-15 member countries of NATO gathered at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris to affirm their conviction that security is best assured when it ...

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We've just heard from UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte, as they discussed support for Ukraine, a new UK-EU partnership and tariffs. The pair spoke at a press ...

Keir Starmer and Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte have held a joint briefing in Brussels, where they spoke about defence spending and establishing an "ambitious" UK-EU partnership It came after ...

NATO chief Mark Rutte says tensions between Europe and the United States over trade issues under President Donald Trump will not affect the alliance’s collective deterrence. Speaking to ...