‘Oh my God, it’s really happening’

[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Kaja Kallas had been dreading the call. “I woke at 5 o’clock,” the Estonian prime minister recalled recently. The phone was ringing. Her Lithuanian counterpart was on the line.  “Oh my God, it’s really happening,” came the ominousContinue Reading

NATO on the precipice

[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS — The images tell the story. In the packed meeting rooms and hallways of Munich’s Hotel Bayerischer Hof last weekend, back-slapping allies pushed an agenda with the kind of forward-looking determination NATO had long sought to portray butContinue Reading

Strikes bring air traffic to standstill in Germany

[ad_1] Berlin: Collective bargaining strikes of public sector employees as well as ground staff and flight control at seven German airports have brought air traffic in the country to a virtual standstill. Around 2,340 flights were to be canceled, affecting almost 300,000 passengers, the German Airports Association (ADV) said, urgingContinue Reading