#BREAKING President Biden announces US reinforcements of NATO land, air and sea forces in Europe
#BREAKING NATO summit proof alliance seeks 'aggressive containment' of Russia: deputy foreign minister
#BREAKING Finland, Sweden NATO membership bids 'destabilising factor': Russian deputy foreign minister
#BREAKING Ukraine President Zelensky asks NATO summit for modern artillery, more financial support
#BREAKING Russia not 'intimidated' by US military reinforcements in Europe: deputy foreign minister
#BREAKING NATO leaders agree to formally invite Finland, Sweden to join alliance: statement
#BREAKING NATO leaders denounce Russia's 'appalling cruelty' in Ukraine: statement
#BREAKING NATO says China's 'stated ambitions and coercive policies challenge our interests': guiding blueprint
#BREAKING Kyiv welcomes NATO's 'essential decisions', 'clear-eyed stance' on Russia: foreign minister
#UPDATE The United States vowed on Wednesday to shore up Europe's defences in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, as #NATO declared Moscow the West's greatest threat and welcomed Sweden and Finland as invitees to join the alliance ▶️ u.afp.com/wziK#NATOSummit
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#BREAKING Russia poses a 'direct threat' to NATO security: Stoltenberg
#UPDATE NATO leaders meeting in Madrid are set to label Russia a menace to their security as they overhaul the alliance's defences in response to the war on Ukraine, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said.
"We'll state clearly that Russia poses a direct threat to our security"
VIDEO: "I expect that when leaders agree the strategic concept they will state clearly that Russia poses a direct threat to our security and, of course, that would be reflected throughout the strategic concept": Jens Stoltenberg, NATO secretary general
#BREAKING Philippines' Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa says 'business as usual' despite news outlet's shutdown order
#UPDATE Philippine Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa's news company Rappler was ordered Wednesday to shut down, a day before President Rodrigo Duterte is due to leave office, but she vowed to keep the site running
#BREAKING Ghislaine Maxwell sentenced to 20 years in jail for sex crimes
#UPDATE Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison Tuesday for helping late financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse girls, capping the former socialite's sordid fall from grace u.afp.com/wDFa
New York sex-trafficking trial.
#AFPGraphics factfile on Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein. Maxwell was found guilty in December on five of the six counts she was facing for sex crimes
#BREAKING Mexico president says at least 22 Mexicans among dead in Texas trailer truck, 50 dead in total
#BREAKING White House calls deaths of immigrants in Texas trailer truck 'absolutely horrific and heartbreaking'
#UPDATE US police on Tuesday were investigating the grim discovery of about 50 bodies in and around a trailer truck abandoned in sweltering heat near the Texas city of #SanAntonio, with victims identified as being from Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras u.afp.com/wD96