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BRUSSELS -- President Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have met after the U.S. leader publicly lambasted the longtime ally over its spending on national defense and a Russian oil pipeline. Sitting down in Brussels, where both were attending a NATO summit, Mr. Trump described it as a great meeting. He said they discussed defense investment and trade, adding: We have a tremendous relationship with Germany. Merkel said she raised issues of migration and economic development with her U.S. counterpart. Their meeting came hours after Mr. Trump claimed a pipeline project has made Germany tota adidas campus shoes lly controlled by and captive to Russia during a combative breakfast that kicked off what was already expected to be a fraught NATO summit. Mr. Trump, in a testy exchange with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, took issue with the U.S. protecting Germany when the European nation is making deals with Russia.The pre salomon sident appeared to be referring to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline that would bring gas from Russia to Germany s northeastern Baltic coast, bypassing Eastern European nations like Poland and Ukraine and doubling the amount of gas Russia can send directly to Germany. The vast undersea pipeline is opposed by the U.S. and some other EU members, who warn it co nike air force uld give Moscow greater leverage over Western Europe. Asked after the meeting whether he has discussed his earlier remarks about the pipeline with Merkel, Mr. Trump said it had come up but he didn t elaborate. Xbax Images Of War: Battle For Baghdad
The leader of a band of Somali pirates holding a British yachting couple says the two hostages have been moved as Islamist insurgents approached a pirate haven for the first time.Maslah Yare says pirates bundled Paul and Rachel Chandler into a car Monday and took them into a forest, soon after receiving word that al-Shabab fighters were approaching the town of Haradhere, a town on the Somali coast that is a pirate lair.Ahmed Salad, a businessman, says an advance team of militants entered Haradhere in two vehicles late Sunday. Somali pirates and insurgents are two separate groups. If al-Shabab, which is linked to al Qaeda, takes control of pirate strongholds, the pirates 300-plus foreign hostages could be in greater danger.The Chandlers have been held hostage for nearly six months and were seen pleading for help in a video released in January, though the video s date could not be verified.British broadcaster Sky News aired the foota stanley mug ge of 59-year-old Paul Chandler and his wife Rachel. The pair were heading to Tanzania in their yacht, when they were kidnapped by pirates late last October. In the video, both appear uninjured but frail and underweight. The couple claim that they ve been separated and held in solitary confinement.They ask for help to pay for their ran water bottle stanley som, s stanley cup aying they re innocent people who ve done no wrong. British Foreign Secretary David Miliband recently said the government won t get involved in any ransom payments, but, he says the government can t stand
BRUSSELS -- President Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have met after the U.S. leader publicly lambasted the longtime ally over its spending on national defense and a Russian oil pipeline. Sitting down in Brussels, where both were attending a NATO summit, Mr. Trump described it as a great meeting. He said they discussed defense investment and trade, adding: We have a tremendous relationship with Germany. Merkel said she raised issues of migration and economic development with her U.S. counterpart. Their meeting came hours after Mr. Trump claimed a pipeline project has made Germany tota adidas campus shoes lly controlled by and captive to Russia during a combative breakfast that kicked off what was already expected to be a fraught NATO summit. Mr. Trump, in a testy exchange with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, took issue with the U.S. protecting Germany when the European nation is making deals with Russia.The pre salomon sident appeared to be referring to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline that would bring gas from Russia to Germany s northeastern Baltic coast, bypassing Eastern European nations like Poland and Ukraine and doubling the amount of gas Russia can send directly to Germany. The vast undersea pipeline is opposed by the U.S. and some other EU members, who warn it co nike air force uld give Moscow greater leverage over Western Europe. Asked after the meeting whether he has discussed his earlier remarks about the pipeline with Merkel, Mr. Trump said it had come up but he didn t elaborate. Xbax Images Of War: Battle For Baghdad
The leader of a band of Somali pirates holding a British yachting couple says the two hostages have been moved as Islamist insurgents approached a pirate haven for the first time.Maslah Yare says pirates bundled Paul and Rachel Chandler into a car Monday and took them into a forest, soon after receiving word that al-Shabab fighters were approaching the town of Haradhere, a town on the Somali coast that is a pirate lair.Ahmed Salad, a businessman, says an advance team of militants entered Haradhere in two vehicles late Sunday. Somali pirates and insurgents are two separate groups. If al-Shabab, which is linked to al Qaeda, takes control of pirate strongholds, the pirates 300-plus foreign hostages could be in greater danger.The Chandlers have been held hostage for nearly six months and were seen pleading for help in a video released in January, though the video s date could not be verified.British broadcaster Sky News aired the foota stanley mug ge of 59-year-old Paul Chandler and his wife Rachel. The pair were heading to Tanzania in their yacht, when they were kidnapped by pirates late last October. In the video, both appear uninjured but frail and underweight. The couple claim that they ve been separated and held in solitary confinement.They ask for help to pay for their ran water bottle stanley som, s stanley cup aying they re innocent people who ve done no wrong. British Foreign Secretary David Miliband recently said the government won t get involved in any ransom payments, but, he says the government can t stand
