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President Donald Trump met with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte Wednesday, days after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's White House visit.
Since Stoltenberg stepped down in November 2024, Trump has further reshaped NATO’s defense spending expectations in 2025, pushing allies at the alliance’s summit in The Hague in June 2025 toward a new benchmark of 5 percent of GDP by 2035. Update 09/29/25, 3:14 p.m. ET: This article was updated with comment from White House spokesperson Anna Kelly.
President Trump met with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte at the White House on Wednesday, shortly after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced new sanctions on Russia’s biggest oil
WASHINGTON (TNND) — President Donald Trump is set to meet with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Wednesday at the White House. Just last week, Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to discuss the Ukraine war.
When President Donald Trump hung up the phone after his talk with Russia’s Vladimir Putin last week, he was so convinced there was enough progress made that he announced he was heading soon to Budapest for an in-person summit.
The main reason that no one else has tried to build something like this is that it doesn’t really have any use," one expert told NBC News.
Russia said on Tuesday its conditions for peace in Ukraine remained unchanged since the August summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, and that it was unclear when their next meeting would take place.
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A bad week for Hungary’s strongman leader as Trump-Putin summit scrapped and US sanctions Russia
Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was delighted to learn last week that Russia and the United States had chosen his country as the venue for another summit on ending the war in Ukraine.
President Trump is in Egypt for the Mideast peace summit to discuss what's next for Gaza. Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Joel Rubin and former NATO Supreme Allied Commander retired General Wesley Clark join Erielle Reshef to provide their analysis and insight on the region.
Donald Trump headed to Japan on Monday, the next leg of an Asia tour that could see the US president and China's Xi Jinping end the bruising trade war between the world's largest economies.Global markets will be watching closely to see if the meeting with Xi on Thursday can halt the trade war sparked by Trump's sweeping tariffs,