‘Done deal’: Stoltenberg to remain NATO chief

Key Facts

• The move to retain Stoltenberg was widely rumored and expected ahead of a major NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania next month, billed as one of the most important alliance gatherings in years amid Russia’s war in Ukraine.
• MACRON MOVES TO SQUASH PROTESTS: President EMMANUEL MACRON is set to deploy 40,000 police offices across France to quell violence that engulfed cities and towns in the wake of an officer shooting of a 17-year-old driver that is under investigation, writes our own CLEA CAULCUTT.
• “Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine is a calculated assault on the U.N. charter, and on the central principles of an international order that was designed, above all, to bring an end to all attempts at conquest and annexation,” JAMES CLEVERLY declared during an address at the Chatham House think tank.
• LOOK HARDER: Twenty-one human rights and antiwar organizations are urging Defense Secretary LLOYD AUSTIN to ensure the probe into the reported killing of a civilian in Syria — when a “senior al Qaeda leader” was the intended target — will be thorough.

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