Trump at NATO
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is due to meet President Donald Trump ahead of celebrations for the 70th anniversary of the alliance, a frequent target of the US leader.
The White House visit comes before two days of talks in Washington among the 29 foreign ministers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, with the specter of Russia again topping the agenda.
Trump, in an unlikely role for the president of NATO's founding member, has long questioned the usefulness of the alliance and characterized fellow members as freeloaders. — AFP
Scottish police say they are trying to trace a paraglider who flew a Greenpeace protest banner over the golf resort that President Donald Trump is staying at.
Detective Inspector Stephen McCulloch says the protester breached a no-fly zone over Turnberry hotel and committed a criminal offence. — AP
Hundreds of people have protested in Scotland's largest city to protest against President Donald Trump's visit to the U.K.
Pensioners, students, families and activists from a wide variety of pressure groups attended the demonstration in Glasgow. — AP
President Donald Trump has viewed a joint military exercise along with British Prime Minister Theresa May at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
Trump's visit to the military academy was closed to the media. The military demonstration involving American and British officers came after Trump criticized May's Brexit plans in an interview published by The Sun newspaper late Thursday night. — AP
Trump says he told NATO allies that he is "extremely unhappy" with the level of defense spending but received a commitment from the member nations for them to spend more.
Trump says during a news conference in Brussels that NATO members have agreed to pursue defense spending of at least 2 percent of their GDP at a faster rate than the current 2024 timeline. — AP
US President Donald Trump says he probably can withdraw the US from NATO but that such a step is "unnecessary."
Published reports Thursday say Trump has threatened during the NATO summit in Brussels to pull the US out of the military alliance in a dispute over defense spending.
Trump says at a news conference that he is "extremely unhappy" with the situation, but that alliance members have upped their commitment in response to his complaints.
Asked whether he's still threatening to pull out of NATO and whether he can do so without buy-in from Congress, Trump says: "I think I probably can but that's unnecessary." — AP
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