NATO has said its pledge for tens of billions of dollars in security aid for Ukraine will be fulfilled by the end of 2025. The alliance announced on Wednesday that 40 billion euros ($41.6 billion) which had been agreed by the bloc's 32 members during its Washington, D.C. summit last July would be sent to Kyiv this year.

Switzerland's government said on Wednesday it planned to ban international adoptions due to concerns about abuses in the practice.

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte has warned that a Russian victory over Ukraine would undermine the dissuasive force of the world's biggest military alliance and could cost trillions of dollars to restore the organization's credibility.

NATO's Secretary-General Mark Rutte hailed newly inaugurated U.S. President Donald Trump's warning on Wednesday that Russia could expect more tariffs and sanctions if it did not end the war in Ukraine.

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte warned that restoring the alliance's credibility after a Russian victory in Ukraine could require trillions of dollars.

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We know that the Russian economy is doing terribly bad[ly], and the sanctions will help," he told CNBC on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland." NATO's Secretary-General ...

The more the Republican president talks about the NATO alliance, the greater the concerns about his commitment to the international partnership.

Speaking virtually to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Trump also said he will press NATO members to increase their defence spending target to five per cent of GDP.

The announcement by US President Donald Trump that the USA will withdraw from WHO1 will leave both a large financial gap and a political power vacuum in global health. The disruption endangers human lives worldwide because it is not only about leaving a bureaucratic apparatus—as WHO opponents like to portray the UN agency2—but it is also about an organisation that implements concrete health programmes with many partners at country level worldwide,

DAVOS, Switzerland — US President Donald Trump said his government looks forward to "doing very well with China and getting along with China" during a virtual address delivered to the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday.

​Trump’s image dominated the room from multiple screens. Below the movie-theater-size emperor at center stage sat five business and political leaders looking tiny in their WEF-logo seats. Once they might have been called “masters of the universe” themselves, but now they were just supplicants lobbing softball questions at the Übermensch.