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NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte heaped praise on President Donald Trump during the two-day NATO summit in the Netherlands.

The summit ended with a commitment to spend 5% of GDP on defence - more than double the current target of 2%.

NATO leaders agreed on Wednesday on a massive hike in defense spending after pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump, and expressed their “ironclad commitment” to come to each other’s aid if attacked

The FTSE 100 index closed down 40.24 points, 0.5%, at 8,718.75.

Committees from the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Senedd and Northern Ireland Assembly have written jointly to Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall.

Prime minister Keir Starmer said this week’s Nato summit had sent a ‘decisive message to aggressors’ as allies pledged to ramp up their defence spending

NATO leaders meeting in The Hague on Wednesday agreed to raise defence spending to 5 percent of GDP and reaffirmed their mutual defence pledge – steps Donald Trump hailed as a “monumental win” for the US, which he says has carried an unfair share of the burden. But while all…

The Israeli assessment contradicts a leaked intelligence report from the US, which suggests that Iran’s nuclear programme has only been set back by a few months.

At the close of the NATO summit, Mark Rutte shared informal praise for Trump’s approach to Iran and defence spending, including a playful "daddy" remark on TV and private messages calling Trump’s bombing of Iran “decisive” and “extraordinary”.

Ange takes the reins in Westminster, as the prime minister gets a quizzing at Nato summit