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    Moscow Slams NATO For Focusing On ‘Nonexistent’ Russia Threat
    Jul11

    Moscow Slams NATO For Focusing On ‘Nonexistent’ Russia Threat

    Russia has slammed NATO for focusing on what it called a “nonexistent” threat from Russia at a summit in Warsaw. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Canada’s Supreme Court shoots down appeal to deport Nazi death squad member, 92
    Jul11

    Canada’s Supreme Court shoots down appeal to deport Nazi death squad member, 92

    (JTA) — The Canadian government must decide if it will try for a fourth time to deport a 92-year-old man who confessed to being a former member of a Nazi death squad after the nation’s Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of a lower court ruling in his favor. The high court’s decision last week, for which no reason was given, as...

    Russian Threat Takes Center Stage at NATO’s Warsaw Summit
    Jul10

    Russian Threat Takes Center Stage at NATO’s Warsaw Summit

    WARSAW, Poland—Russian aggression, radical Islamist terrorism, the refugee crisis, Brexit, Afghanistan. The list of challenges NATO leaders faced at the biennial summit here over the weekend was diverse, highlighting what some consider to be a post-Cold War moment of truth for the alliance to prove it still matters. Speaking to reporters...

    NATO Must Invest Real Money to Stay in Business
    Jul10

    NATO Must Invest Real Money to Stay in Business

    The NATO summit held in Warsaw July 8-9 was marked by high-level meetings and solemn declarations, sprinkled with a dose of pomp and circumstance. There was substance, too: NATO leaders took important, albeit small, steps to send a message to Vladimir Putin that the alliance is united in its determination to defend all of its members should he...

    Russia, U.S. Expel Diplomats in Tit-For-Tat Exchange
    Jul10

    Russia, U.S. Expel Diplomats in Tit-For-Tat Exchange

    Russia said on Saturday it had expelled two U.S. Embassy staff members in June after a similar “unfriendly” move by Washington. One of the expelled diplomats was involved in an incident with a Russian policeman near the U.S. Embassy entrance in Moscow, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement, citing Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei...

    Inside the NATO decision to move forces into Eastern Europe
    Jul10

    Inside the NATO decision to move forces into Eastern Europe

    Read the full transcript below: MEGAN THOMPSON, PBS NEWSHOUR WEEKEND ANCHOR: In light of the sniper shooting that killed five Dallas police officers, President Obama is cutting short his European trip by one day to return to the U.S. tomorrow, and visit Dallas on Tuesday. At today’s NATO Summit in Warsaw — his last as president — Obama...

    Russia Expels 2 American Diplomats
    Jul10

    Russia Expels 2 American Diplomats

    MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia said on Saturday it had expelled two U.S. Embassy staff members in June after a similar ‘unfriendly’ move by Washington.One of the expelled diplomats was involved in an incident with a Russian policeman near the U.S. Embassy entrance in Moscow, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement, citing Deputy Foreign...

    Obama Reaffirms U.S. Commitment to European Security
    Jul09

    Obama Reaffirms U.S. Commitment to European Security

    President Barack Obama, at his last NATO summit before stepping down next January, pledged the United States’long-term military commitment to ensuring security in Europe and defending all its allies. Obama said the Western defense alliance had agreed on the most significant reinforcement of its collective defense since the Cold War by...

    Kremlin Paranoia Leads to Escalation in Spy War
    Jul09

    Kremlin Paranoia Leads to Escalation in Spy War

    Within a day of the Russian television channel NTV running footage of the assault on an American citizen by Russian security services just outside the doors of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, the U.S. State Department announced that it had expelled two Russian diplomats and had declared them persona non grata, just a little less than two weeks after...

    NATO Extends Mission in Afghanistan into 2017
    Jul09

    NATO Extends Mission in Afghanistan into 2017

    Leaders gathered at the NATO summit in Warsaw have pledged to continue training Afghan security forces into 2017 and to provide nearly $1 billion each year to support Afghan forces through 2020. Together with contributions from the United States, that will mean the western alliance will continue to provide around $5 billion per year for Afghan...