President Donald Trump said NATO countries must sharply increase their defense spending, demanding member states push beyond current benchmarks that many of them already struggle to hit.

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Belarus is holding a presidential election on Sunday that will secure another five-year mandate for Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power for over three decades and crushed all opposition.

Belarusians vote on Sunday in a presidential election to extend Alexander Lukashenko's 30-year stranglehold on power in which ...

He is running for an unprecedented seventh term in office this month, after violently crushing mass protests against vote ...

Leading politicians from all six political parties represented at the Riigikogu have, despite their differences on other ...

For Europe, Trump’s second term is the harshest of wake-up calls. The fairy tale of transatlantic partnership, where the U.S. was the benevolent big brother, is officially dead and buried. What’s left ...

Fifty-four state and international delegations have confirmed attendance at Friday’s ceremonies commemorating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German Auschwitz concentration camp, ...

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