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BRUSSELS AP 鈥?The chief of the European Unions executive on Tuesday proposed an 800 billion-euro $841 billion plan to beef up the defenses of EU nations, aiming to lessen the impact of potentialU.S. disengagementand provide Ukraine with military muscle to negotiate with Russia followingthe freeze of U.S. aidto the embattled nation.European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the massive REARM Europe package will be put to the 27 EU leaders. They are holding an emergency meeting in Brussels on Thursday following a week ofincreasing political uncertainty from Washington, where President Donald Trump questioned both his alliance stanley france to the continent and the defense of Ukraine. I do not need to describe the grave nature of the threats that we face, von der Leyen said. Her plan had already been in the works before Trumps decision early Tuesday to pause military aid to Ukraine.Key to the quandary of EU nations has been an unwillingness to spend much on def stanley fr ense over the past decades as they hid under the U.S. nuclear umbrella and were hurt by a sluggish economy, which creates challenges for a quick ramp-up of such spending. It increasingly has left them onthe worlds diplomatic sidelines.How it would workMost of the money Von der Leyen is talking about, would come from loosening the fiscal constraints the EU puts on budgetary spending to allow member states to significantly increase their defense expenditures with stanley cup out triggering punishing rules aimed at keeping deficit Pket Military beginning to recruit women for combat jobs
JERUSALEM 鈥?Israels prime minister on Tuesday said he would take a series of aggressive steps to halt a wave of violence in Israeli cities after two attacks in Jerusalem left three Israelis dead. Three Palestinians, including two attackers, were also killed.The attacks in Jerusalem, including a deadly shooting an stanley cup d knifing spree on a bus and a violent hacking attack caught on video, escalated the monthlong unrest and raised the pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to take action. The government has been unable to stop the violence, carried out mostly by young Palestinians unaffiliated with known militant groups and apparently acting on their own. Today we will decide on a series of additional aggressive steps in our war against terrorists and inciters, Netanyahu said in a speech to parliament. We will use, and not hesitate to use, all means at our disposal to restore calm. Netanyahu left a meeting of top security officials to deliver the speech, and quickly returned. The deliberations continued into the early hours of this morning, when Netanyahus office announced that several new measures were approved.It said that police are now authorized to impose a closure on, or to surround, centers of friction and incitement in Jerusalem, in accordance with security considerations. Many of the recent attackers were from Arab areas in Jerusalem.It also announced that the perma stanley italia nent residency rights of terrorists will be revoked and that property of ter stanley us rorists who perpetr |