RUSSIA CALLS ON US TO WITHDRAW NUCLEAR WEAPONS FROM EUROPEAN TERRITORY

The Russian foreign ministry Monday called on the U.S. to withdraw its nuclear weapons from European territory, Sputnik News reported... READ MORE›

FINANCE MINISTER CITED U.S. TREASURY ON MONEY LAUNDERING, BRIBERY

Latvia's top banker has been detained in a corruption and money laundering probe in the former Soviet republic that is now part of the European Union... READ MORE›

U.S. DEFENSE SECRETARY MATTIS TO PRESS EUROPEAN ALLIES ON MILITARY SPENDING

The issue of low defense spending in Europe has long been an irritant in Washington... READ MORE›

RUSSIAN FIGHTER JET 'PASSES 5FT IN FRONT OF US SURVEILLANCE PLANE' OVER BLACK SEA

The US State Department said the Russian jet closed to within five feet and crossed directly in front of the EP-3 Aries II plane... READ MORE›

JAPAN PM BEEFS UP EUROPEAN TIES AMID N. KOREA TENSIONS

Abe will then visit fellow Baltic states Latvia and Lithuania, before continuing on to Bulgaria, Serbia and Romania... READ MORE›

SWEDEN'S SECURITY WARNING

Sweden's security service is dealing with an increased threat of terrorism and the impact of fake news... READ MORE›

FACEBOOK AND TWITTER FACE SANCTIONS IF THEY FAIL TO HELP 'FAKE NEWS' INQUIRY

Facebook and Twitter have been threatened with sanctions if they refuse to help a Parliamentary investigation into Russian interference in the EU referendum... READ MORE›

POPE FRANCIS NEEDS A MICROSCOPE TO SEE HIS NEWEST NATIVITY SCENE

Details about Francis' trip to Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia have not been released yet but he is expected in fall 2018... READ MORE›

LITHUANIANS CREATE MICROSCOPIC CRECHE FOR THE POPE

Lithuania has given Pope Francis a Christmas present invisible to the naked eye a Nativity scene where baby Jesus is smaller than a human cell. Lithuanian... READ MORE›

US TANKS AND TROOPS IN POLAND A THREAT, RUSSIA SAYS

The troops are part of President Barack Obama's response to reassure Nato allies concerned about a more aggressive Russia... READ MORE›

US POISED TO PUT HEAVY WEAPONRY IN EAST EUROPE

Putin, that the United States would defend the alliance's members closest to the Russian frontier... READ MORE›

THE MOST DESIRABLE PASSPORTS ON EARTH DON'T INCLUDE AMERICA'S

A Swedish passport allows visa-free travel to 176 countries or territories, just one fewer than world leader Germany... READ MORE›

THESE MAPS SHOW HOW RUSSIA HAS EUROPE SPOOKED

Bastion land-based coastal-defense missile launchers In October, Russia beefed up its anti-shipping defenses in Kaliningrad with these launchers... READ MORE›

'NATO CALLS RUSSIA AN AGGRESSOR, AT THE SAME TIME RUSSIA FINDS ITSELF SURROUNDED BY NATO TROOPS'

RT The German company Optronic HR confirmed recruiting Russian speakers for upcoming NATO drills involving US troops... READ MORE›

US TANKS ARRIVE IN GERMANY FOR NATO MISSION IN EUROPE

Hundreds of military vehicles will be transported to eastern Europe in NATO buildup that could increase Russia tensions... READ MORE›

EXPECT MORE FAKE NEWS FROM RUSSIA, TOP NATO GENERAL SAYS

There he will outline why NATO believes its biggest military build-up since the end of the Cold War is not a threat to the Kremlin... READ MORE›

IN FIRST NATO WAR GAME DEFENDS BALTIC WEAK SPOT

If seized by Russia, it would cut off Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania... READ MORE›

THE UNITED STATES MUST JOIN EUROPE TO RESIST RUSSIA'S MEDDLING

Russian intelligence leaders don't have many U.S. assets to freeze... READ MORE›

RUSSIAN WARPLANES KEEP BUZZING THE BALTICS. HERE'S HOW NATO SCRAMBLES.

But if a Russian plane violates NATO airspace -- which has happened five times in Estonia this year -- the situation could quickly escalate... READ MORE›

POORER THAN GREECE: THE EU COUNTRIES THAT REJECT A NEW ATHENS BAILOUT

In Latvia and Lithuania, pensioners and other poor people wonder why they are being asked to pay to bail out their far richer Greek counterparts... READ MORE›

'SWEDEN HAS BEEN ATTACKED': TRUCK CRASHES INTO STOCKHOLM STORE, KILLING 4

Shoppers were locked inside stores after businesses triggered their automatic security systems. Police evacuated Stockholm's central train station and shut down the subway... READ MORE›

DNA OF HEADLESS TORSO MATCHES MISSING SWEDISH JOURNALIST KIM WALL

Missing Swedish journalist Kim Wall Police say DNA of headless torso matches... READ MORE›

PUTIN COULD ATTACK BALTIC STATES WARNS FORMER NATO CHIEF

Its Baltic Air Policing Mission intercepted 150 incursions into NATO airspace by Russian aircraft last year... READ MORE›

AS GLOBAL AXIS OF POWER SHIFTS, A COLD WIND BLOWS THROUGH THE BALTIC STATES

After 25 years of independence, Lithuania worries that Nato splits and US isolationism might open the door to Russian aggression... READ MORE›

BALTIC WARNING OVER RUSSIAN MOVE ON NATO

Lithuania has warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin may test Nato in the weeks before Donald Trump becomes US president... READ MORE›

US TO SHIP 1,600 TANKS TO DUTCH ARMS DEPOT IN 'CLEAR MESSAGE' TO RUSSIA

Russian officials, meanwhile, have consistently warned that aggressive NATO maneuvers near Russian territory could undermine regional security... READ MORE›

'A VERY PROVOCATIVE ACTION': CANADA'S WAR GAMES IN THE BALTICS IRK SENIOR RUSSIAN OFFICIAL

That led the Trudeau government to commit more than 350 million dollars to send Canadian troops to lead the NATO force in Latvia for three years... READ MORE›

TRAIN COLLIDES WITH TANK SOUTH OF STOCKHOLM, FOUR INJURED

Train collides with tank south of Stockholm, four injured report... READ MORE›

RUSSIAN DEFENCE MINISTER'S PLANE 'BUZZED' BY NATO JET

Nato has beefed up its military presence in Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, in the wake of Russia's seizure and annexation Ukraine's Crimean peninsula in 2014... READ MORE›

THE PUTIN-TRUMP KISS BEING SHARED AROUND THE WORLD

Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. presidential hopeful Donald Trump are kissing on the side of a barbecue restaurant in Vilnius, Lithuania... READ MORE›

U.S. SENATORS VISIT BALTICS TO REASSURE AHEAD OF TRUMP PRESIDENCY

McCain and Graham asked Trump to take a tough line against Russia over what they termed its military land grab in Ukraine... READ MORE›

$1,570,000,000,000: HOW MUCH THE WORLD SPENT ON ARMS THIS YEARA

Increased fears about global stability and the rise of new military powers is driving a return to steady growth in worldwide defence spending... READ MORE›

NATO RETURNS ITS ATTENTION TO AN OLD ADVERSARY RUSSIA

I don't think we're in the Cold War again... READ MORE›

PUTIN STARTS WAR GAME ON NATO FRONTIER ALARMING A WARY EUROPE

That estimate includes joint exercises in Kaliningrad, Russia's nuclear-armed enclave on the Baltic Sea that's nestled between Poland and Lithuania... READ MORE›

PUTIN IS NOT JUST A SIDESHOW WHEN HE'S YOUR NEIGHBOR

Since his election, President Trump has done little to halt the growing confidence of Russian President Vladimir Putin... READ MORE›

CALL TO DOUBLE MONITORS IN UKRAINE

They claim anti-EU television and media propaganda is targeting the minority Russian speakers in the Baltic states... READ MORE›

The number of intercepts of Russian military aircraft approaching Western airspace has tripled compared with 2013, British researchers said in November, citing NATO officials... READ MORE›

A BRAWL OVER CHRISTMAS TREE BRAGGING RIGHTS

RIGA, Latvia -- In the Baltics, there may be no war on Christmas but there's a pretty prickly one over the tree... READ MORE›

NATO JETS VIOLATE FINLAND AIRSPACE WHILE INTERCEPTING RUSSIAN PLANES

Two NATO jets which were intercepting Russian planes over neutral waters near Estonia briefly violated Finnish airspace, the alliance said... READ MORE›