- Associated Press
Record number of NATO allies expected to hit defense spending target amid war in Ukraine
A record more than 20 NATO member nations are expected to hit the Western military alliance’s defense spending target this year, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Monday, as the war in Ukraine drives worldwide concerns. The estimated figure, announced by Stoltenberg during a talk at the Wilson Center in Washington, marks a nearly fourfold increase from 2021 in the ranks of the 32 NATO member nations meeting the alliance's defense spending guideline. Only six nations were meeting the goal that year, ahead of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
- CBC
Roommates credited with saving lives in Charlottetown apartment fire
When an electrical fault sparked a fire in one of the outside walls of 6 Elena Court in Charlottetown as the clock turned past midnight a week ago, most of the residents were asleep."We really didn't know what was happening.… Everyone was sleeping," said building resident Yasmeen Thakur."A couple of boys saved every single person from the building."Maavi Gill and Manpreet Singh were awake when the fire started, having just returned home from work.Singh told Gill he smelled something burning. The
- Miami Herald
Who’s on the August primary election ballot? These are the South Florida candidates
Here is a full list of the candidates that you will see on the ballot on Aug. 20 at a federal, state and local level.
