Tag: Jens Stoltenberg

• Friday, June 21st 2024 - 20:29 UTC

  Dutchman Rutte becomes sole runner for NATO Chief position

  

  Dutchman Mark Rutte is poised to become the next Secretary-General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization next month after Romanian President Klaus Iohannis withdrew his candidacy, leaving the acting prime minister of the Netherlands as the sole runner for the position.

• Monday, August 29th 2022 - 10:19 UTC

  “The Arctic is strategic for NATO”; US going to appoint its first ambassador to the polar region

  

  “The Arctic is of great importance for NATO,” and the Western alliance must give priority to its military presence in the polar region, NATO's chief Jens Stoltenberg said in a Sunday interview with the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag. The interview comes when Washington is set to appoint its first Arctic ambassador and Russia's increasing military activity in the Arctic..

• Monday, March 7th 2022 - 20:55 UTC

  Bolivian top-secret dossier shows NATO's expansion into South America

  

  A newspaper report released Monday by Buenos Aires' daily Página 12 explained how the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has expanded its influence over South America. The news outlet said the document which proved their story was “top secret.”

• Friday, June 22nd 2018 - 08:46 UTC

  NATO chief calls on UK to continue playing a leading role as military power

  

  The head of Nato has called on Britain to continue investing in defense amid claims that Theresa May has questioned the UK’s role as a leading military power. In a speech in London, Jens Stoltenberg said he expected the UK to continue playing a major international role.

• Friday, April 27th 2018 - 12:30 UTC

  Pompeo swears as Secretary of State and flies to meet leaders of “invaluable”

  

  Twelve hours after being sworn in U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo went straight to NATO headquarters in Brussels in what European allies saw as strong support for an institution that U.S. President Donald Trump once called obsolete.

• Saturday, March 17th 2018 - 06:58 UTC

  Boris Johnson points directly to Putin, the dictator. Furious reaction from the Kremlin

  

  Russian President Vladimir Putin is “overwhelmingly likely” to have ordered the nerve agent attack on an ex-spy and his daughter, Boris Johnson has said. The foreign secretary underlined that “our quarrel is with Putin's Kremlin, and with his decision” over the Salisbury incident.

• Tuesday, December 13th 2011 - 14:26 UTC

  Norwegian expedition unable to re-edit Amundsen’s South Pole 1911 feat

  

  The Norwegian expedition which was planning to celebrate the centenary of the South Pole discovery by Ronald Amundsen failed in their last leg of their mission with two of them abandoning and the other two not reaching on time for Wednesday’s party with Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg.

• Saturday, July 23rd 2011 - 06:36 UTC

  Double attack in Norway kills at least 87; one extreme-right extremist arrested

  

  Norwegian authorities early Saturday dramatically increased the death toll in a gun attack at a youth camp on the Norwegian island of Utoya to at least 80, bringing the total number dead in a pair of apparently related attacks Friday to 87.