Tag: Jens Stoltenberg

• 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.