NATO's 75 Anniversary Celebration at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, 04 APR 2024

Some key leaders seen in the crowd:NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg,Chairman of the NATO Military Committee Admiral Rob Bauer,British Foreign Secretary David Cameron,German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock,US Secretary of State Antony Blinken,Minister of Foreign Affairs of Finland Elina Valtonen The French language is an official NATO language along with English.

NATO Secretary General with the Prime Minister of Latvia 🇱🇻 Evika Siliņa...27 SEP 2023

NATO Secretary General - Doorstep statement at Defence Ministers Meeting... 14 FEBRUARY 2023

NATO Secretary General with 🇺🇸US Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III 13 OCT 2022

NATO Secretary General at the Allied Command Operations change of command - complete ceremony - 04 JUL2022

Orthodox Christians Were Killed in Nice Terrorist Attack

Among those killed in the recent Islamist extremist terrorist attack in Nice,France were at least three Orthodox Christians:Reader Igor Selesko of St.Nicholas Cathedral in Nice;and Natalia Otto and Roman Katalyan of Holy Nativity Church in Antwerp,Belgium.All were parishoners of the Patriarchate of Moscow and All Russia.May your memory be eternal,dear brothers and sister.Vechnaya pamyat.Aionia mnimi.*
Mr.Selesko was the father of four children.*
In the attack that killed 84 attendees of a Bastille Day celebration on the waterfront promenade of Nice on the night of 14 July,Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel,31,a Tunisian resident of Nice,drove a cargo lorry into a crowd and fired an automatic pistol at police,who then shot him dead.Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant claimed him as a soldier of theirs,but no evidence of direct communication between them has been found yet,Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said at a 21 July press conference.Mr.Bouhlel did have five accomplices who aided him in planning and executing the attack over a period of months.They have been arrested and charged with murder;attempted murder;terrorist conspiracy;and possession and transport of weapons.*
In the aftermath of the Nice attack,the French Parliament has extended a state of emergency dating from the Paris area attacks of November 2015 that killed 130 by six months,until the end of January 2017.It allows the authorities to conduct police raids and place people under house arrest without a judge's authorisation,among other measures.

Ping An Feels Crisis

Ping An Insurance,a major Chinese firm,will record a 2.3 billion dollar loss from the financial crisis.It is the result of Ping An's stake in the Belgian bank Fortis,which has been propped up by a cash infusion from Belgium,the Netherlands and Luxembourg.This is the biggest impact to date on a Chinese firm by the financial crisis.The writedown will affect Ping An's profits for the first three quarters of 2008,but the company said it was still financially sound.Fortis was one of the biggest foreign acquisitions by a Chinese financial firm,which are assiduously enlarging their foreign presence.Chinese companies say they have limited exposure to U.S. mortgage-backed securities.