1 terrorist killed in Pakistan: Military

[ad_1] Military Islamabad: One terrorist was killed by security forces during an exchange of fire in northwest Pakistan, a military statement said. The incident happened in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Wednesday, according to the military’s media wing Inter-Services Public Relations. It was reported that the killed terrorist remained involved inContinue Reading

‘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

The strengths and weaknesses of Volodymyr Zelenskyy

[ad_1] Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe.  In the weeks leading up to Russia’s invasion, senior Ukraine opposition politicians and former ministers were brimming with frustration. They’d been imploring President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to meet with them — something he’d not done since his landslide election nearly two yearsContinue Reading