Europe working on plan to replace US in NATO in five to 10 years
NATO countries are attempting to avoid potential upheaval if the United States withdraws from the transatlantic military, alliance according to Aljazeera.
According to a new report, Europe's major military forces are developing plans to assume increased responsibility for the continent's defense from the United States, including a pitch to President Donald Trump's administration for a managed handover over the next five to ten years.
The United Kingdom, France, Germany, and the Nordic nations are among those involved in informal but organized conversations aimed at reshaping the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) security bloc, according to The Financial Times, citing four European officials, Aljazeera reported.
The announcement coincides with a report by Bloomberg News on Friday that, in the face of Trump's repeated threats to leave the organization and NATO's political infighting with the US, the alliance will ask Europe and Canada to increase its weapons and equipment stocks by 30%.
Locally produced goods should be promoted: PM Oli
Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has emphasized the need to promote and increase consumption of locally produced goods.
Inaugurating the third general convention of Federation of Nepalese Industries and Entrepreneurs, People's organization of the CPN (UML), here today, Prime Minister Oli urged to make the country self-sufficient, stressing on national production and consumption.
He expressed the view that the government was ready to encourage the production of domestic goods in this sector.
Feasibility study of reservoir-based drinking water projects underway: Minister Yadav
Minister for Water Supply Pradeep Yadav has said feasibility study of reservoir-based large drinking water projects was underway for long-term solution of drinking water.
In today's meeting of the National Assembly, responding to a query of lawmaker Bhuwan Bahadur Sunar, Minister Yadav mentioned that the ministry has forwarded a feasibility study of reservoir based large drinking water projects including managing drinking water through wholesale distribution system making diversion of Sunkoshi and Raptikhola rivers in order to resolve drinking water problems.
He added that projects related to deep boring have been started from the concerned project office in order to resolve the problems immediately in Tarai districts as the level of groundwater in Tarai-Madhes districts is decreasing.
"Preparation of budget was underway in order to bring 280 drinking water projects including overhead tanks coordinating with provinces and local levels will be in operation from next fiscal year," shared Minister Yadav, adding that construction activities of 38 drinking water projects of Tarai-Madhes have been forwarded taking multi-year resource consent from the Ministry of Finance in the current fiscal year.
The Water Supply Minister further said that there is a plan of initiating activities to carry out study and research to revive the water sources in hilly and mountainous areas and protection of water source with the collaboration of International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development.
Activities to install chlorination units at every drinking water plant have been started to ensure safe drinking water, he mentioned.
Putin would breach Ukraine deal if it is not defended, says PM
Russian President Vladimir Putin would breach a peace deal with Ukraine if it is not defended, Sir Keir Starmer has said, after attending a meeting of senior military leaders in London, BBC reported.
The UK prime minister said any agreement to stop the fighting between Russia and Ukraine would "only be lasting" if there were "security arrangements in place".
He was speaking at Permanent Joint Headquarters in Northwood, London, where more than 20 countries gathered at a closed meeting to discuss proposals for troops in Ukraine to help guarantee the country's security as part of any peace deal.
Sir Keir said security arrangements would make clear to Russia there would be "severe consequences if they are to breach any deal".
The prime minister said the UK and its allies were moving from "political momentum" to "military planning", which he said had "to be done now" before a deal was agreed.
He said: "It is vitally important we do that work because we know one thing for certain, which is a deal without anything behind it is something that Putin will breach, according to BBC.
"We know that because it happened before. I'm absolutely clear in my mind it will happen again".
Sir Keir ruled out redeploying UK troops from countries such as Estonia to commit to Kyiv, saying: "There's no pulling back from our commitments to other countries."
