NATO - Head Digs In On US Participation: Wochit News

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Published on Nov 13, 2016

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said in an article published on Sunday, going it alone on defense and security is not an option for either the United States or Europe.

If NATO did not spend enough on defense, Donald Trump, now president-elect, threatened to abandon U.S. allies in Europe during the presidential election campaign.

Stoltenberg wrote in an article for The Observer newspaper, "We face the greatest challenges to our security in a generation. This is no time to question the value of the partnership between Europe and the United States."

He highlighted that the only time NATO had invoked its clause that an attack on one member is an attack on all, was after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 on the United States.
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Russia - Steven Seagal Gets Citizenship From Putin: Wochit News

Wochit News

Published on Nov 3, 2016

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has awarded Russian citizenship to action film actor Steven Seagal. The 64-year-old Seagal has been a regular visitor to Russia in recent years and has accompanied Putin to several martial arts events, as well as vocally defending the Russian leader's policies. Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Thursday that Seagal "has been insistent for a long time in asking to be granted Russian citizenship," adding that "he is known for his warm feelings to our country, he never made a secret of it, and he's also a well-known actor, which gave grounds to make him a Russian citizen."