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President-elect Joe Biden, like current President Donald Trump, will continue to pressure European members of the alliance to increase their defence spending, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said.   The still sitting Trump, according to Stoltenberg, had "his own style" and was "quite clear" to the other members about his expectations. Stoltenberg says he is almost sure that Biden will express "the same expectation of the European partners". In an interview with several German newspapers, Stoltenberg said he is confident that NATO in Biden has "a strong supporter of the alliance." Quite different from Trump, who once called NATO "obsolete." Stoltenberg and Biden spoke on Monday for the first time since the Democrat came out as the winner of the elections earlier this month. The NATO ch...

Qatar, the host of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, is still not implementing enough reforms to improve the conditions of foreign guest workers, Amnesty International said.   The human rights organization said in a report Wednesday, two years before the kick-off of the World Cup, that thousands of workers are still at the mercy of unscrupulous employers, whose abuse remains unpunished. Conditions for labour migrants in the oil state have improved in recent years. Amnesty says it welcomes the reforms of the labour market but points out that implementation can be improved. "Then many problematic aspects would be removed," said Regina Spöttl, Amnesty's Gulf state expert. After a sustained deluge of international criticism, Qatar decided to implement reforms to improve the situation of migrant...