Tag - nato

 
 

NATO

Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jun 7, 2017
As U.S. retreats, Canada seeks larger world role, foreign minister says
Canada will seek to play a larger role on the world stage as the United States retreats, Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Tuesday, in remarks underscoring strains between Washington and its closest allies.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 7, 2017
Russia riled by presence of U.S. B-52 strategic bomber near Baltic Sea border, sends fighter to intercept it
Russia scrambled a fighter jet on Tuesday to intercept a nuclear-capable U.S. B-52 strategic bomber it said was flying over the Baltic Sea near its border, in an incident that had echoes of the Cold War.
EDITORIALS
May 29, 2017
A troubling trip abroad for Trump
U.S. President Donald Trump's comments on his first tour abroad raise questions anew about his administration's commitment to core elements of the Western foreign policy consensus.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 29, 2017
'Bad Germans' and other Trump blunders
U.S. President Donald Trump's Brussels trip displayed a now familiar disregard for the facts.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
May 26, 2017
Don't make hasty decision to exit Paris climate pact, Macron urges Trump
French President Emmanuel Macron urged Donald Trump on Thursday not to take any hasty decisions on a global climate change deal that the U.S. president threatened during his election campaign to abandon.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
May 25, 2017
Trump may find rougher reception in NATO, EU meetings amid defense, trade, climate concerns
After a warm welcome in the Middle East and a "fantastic" visit with the pope, U.S. President Donald Trump walks on shakier ground on Thursday when European Union and NATO leaders will press him on defense, trade, and environmental concerns.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Apr 21, 2017
British defense chief says Trump now views Russia as 'competitor'
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is shifting its stance on Russia and now sees Moscow as a competitor, Britain's defense minister said on Thursday during a trip to the Baltic states designed to underline NATO's new deterrent forces.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Mar 21, 2017
Tillerson plans to skip NATO meeting, visit Russia in April, sources say
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson plans to skip an April 5-6 meeting of NATO foreign ministers for a U.S. visit by the Chinese president and will travel to Russia later in the month, U.S. officials said Monday, a step allies may see as putting Moscow's concerns ahead of theirs.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 2, 2017
Ukraine reportedly plans referendum on NATO membership
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko plans a referendum on whether Ukraine should join the NATO alliance, with polls showing 54 percent of Ukrainians now favor such a move, Germany's Funke Mediengruppe newspaper chain reported Thursday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 31, 2017
Putin instigating biggest Russian Arctic military buildup since Soviet fall
The nuclear icebreaker Lenin, the pride and joy of the Soviet Union's Arctic great game, lies at perpetual anchor in the frigid water here. A relic of the Cold War, it is now a museum.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 18, 2017
Lithuania to build fence along Kaliningrad border, fearful of Russian 'little green men'
Lithuania plans to build a 2-meter-high wire fence along its border with the Russian region of Kaliningrad, its interior minister said on Tuesday, amid continued tensions between Moscow and the Baltic states, which are members of NATO.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 17, 2017
Trump's emerging Europe policy prompts calls for unity
European governments called for cool heads and tighter unity as they reacted with shock to President-elect Donald Trump's remarks slamming NATO and predicting European Union nations would follow the U.K. out of the bloc.
JAPAN
Dec 2, 2016
U.K. fighters in Japan to overfly South China Sea, carriers after 2020 to ply Pacific: envoy
British fighter planes visiting Japan will fly over the South China Sea and Britain will sail aircraft carriers in the Pacific once they are operational in 2020, given concerns about freedom of navigation there, Britain's ambassador to the United States said on Thursday.
WORLD
Nov 7, 2016
NATO-hopeful Montenegro says it foiled plot by 'Russian nationalists' to assassinate prime minister
A special prosecutor investigating an alleged plot to sway last month's election in Montenegro said on Sunday a group of "Russian nationalists" had planned to assassinate Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic to get an opposition party into power.
WORLD
Oct 20, 2016
Gunman in Afghan army uniform kills two U.S. advisers, wounds three in Kabul
A gunman, reportedly in an Afghan army uniform, shot dead two American advisers and wounded three on Wednesday near a base outside the Afghan capital before being killed himself, officials said.
WORLD
Oct 8, 2016
Russia moving nuclear-capable missiles into Kaliningrad, U.S. intelligence official says
Russia is moving nuclear-capable missiles into Kaliningrad, a tiny Russian enclave between Poland and Lithuania, a U.S. intelligence official said Friday, confirming Estonian news reports.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 17, 2016
Ex-commander says U.K.'s 'withered' forces could not defend country
Britain's armed forces would be unable to defend the country against a serious military attack because they have been "withered" by cuts, a former senior commander warned before his retirement, the Financial Times reported on Saturday.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 29, 2016
Trump has upset U.S. allies
It's time to kick America's prosperous and capable friends off the U.S. defense dole and let them take responsibility for their own security.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Aug 22, 2016
Putin hints at war in Ukraine, but Russian leader likely seeking diplomatic edge
Ukraine says it thinks Vladimir Putin is planning a new invasion, and it's not hard to see why: the Russian leader has built up troops on its border and resumed the hostile rhetoric that preceded his annexation of Crimea two years ago.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Aug 7, 2016
Turkey moves toward Russia as coup strains ties with West
As Turkey's relations with Europe and the United States are strained by the fallout from its failed coup, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will travel to Russia on Tuesday to meet President Vladimir Putin in a trip he may hope will give the West pause for thought.

Longform

Professional cleaner Hirofumi Sakurai takes a moment to appreciate some photographs in a Gotanda apartment whose occupant died alone.
The last cleanup: Life and death in a lonely Japan