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Europe and U.S. are working together to strengthen defence production in response to growing global military threats, NATO Chief Mark Rutte said Wednesday.
Speaking at a press conference in Berlin, Rutte warned that Russia and China are rapidly expanding their militaries with little transparency. He said Russia plans to deploy at least 1,500 tanks, 3,000 armoured vehicles and hundreds of Iskander missiles this year, while China controls the world’s largest navy and several of the largest defence companies globally.
“Their defence industries are producing weapons and equipment at an incredible rate—not just for display, but to secure influence, project power and challenge the rules-based international order,” Rutte said.
Rutte stressed that financial and industrial commitments are essential. He noted that Germany has pledged nearly €153 billion in defence spending by 2029 and highlighted Rheinmetall’s factory, which plans to produce 350,000 artillery shells annually.
However, he added that money alone is not enough. “We fight with well-equipped, well-trained troops who need ships, jets, tanks, drones and ammunition. NATO’s defence industries must produce and deliver faster than ever,” Rutte said.
He also called for increasing production of advanced capabilities such as tanks, air defence systems and missiles, while reducing reliance on critical raw materials sourced from abroad.
Linking defence to economic growth, Rutte said, “Increased defence production is an engine of economic growth. Congratulations on this important opening.”
Video from the USGS (United States Geological Survey) showed on Friday (19 September) the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupting and spewing lava.
At least eight people have died and more than 90 others were injured following a catastrophic gas tanker explosion on a major highway in Mexico City’s Iztapalapa district on Wednesday, authorities confirmed.
At least 69 people have died and almost 150 injured following a powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Cebu City in the central Visayas region of the Philippines, officials said, making it one of the country’s deadliest disasters this year.
A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on 13 September with no tsunami threat, coming just weeks after the region endured a devastating 8.8-magnitude quake — the strongest since 1952.
Authorities in California have identified the dismembered body discovered in a Tesla registered to singer D4vd as 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who had been missing from Lake Elsinore since April 2024.
The newly elected mayor of Herdecke in northwestern Germany, Social Democrat Iris Stalzer, was seriously injured in a knife attack near her home by an unknown assailant or assailants.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha met on Tuesday with a delegation from the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Parliamentary Assembly, marking the first visit to Ukraine by the group’s president, Pere Joan Pons.
The European Parliament has passed new legislation making it easier to suspend visa-free travel for nationals of third countries found to violate human rights or ignore international court rulings.
Two years after the Gaza conflict began, President Donald Trump on Tuesday pledged United States backing for Gaza’s security guarantees and said he believed an agreement to free the remaining hostages was nearing completion.
At least 15 people have been killed after a rain-triggered landslide sent huge boulders crashing onto a private bus in India’s northern state of Himachal Pradesh on Tuesday evening.
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