By Sabine Siebold and John Irish VILNIUS (Reuters) -Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday agreed to forward to parliament Sweden’s bid to join the NATO military alliance, appearing to end months of drama over an issue that had strained the bloc as war has raged in Ukraine. Sweden and Finland applied for NATO membership last …
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(Reuters) – Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan agreed Monday to support Sweden’s bid to join NATO, a move that will expand the military alliance and strengthen its Baltic flank as Russia continues its invasion of Ukraine. Erdogan agreed to forward the membership bid to parliament, appearing to end months of drama over an issue that had …
By Sabine Siebold VILNIUS (Reuters) – NATO leaders meet in Vilnius on Tuesday and Wednesday to tackle a wide range of topics, from divisions over Ukraine’s membership bid and Sweden’s accession to boosting ammunitions stockpiles and reviewing the first defence plans in decades. It will be the fourth NATO summit since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, …
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KYIV (Reuters) -A Russian attack on a humanitarian aid distribution point in southeastern Ukraine killed seven people, emergency services said on Monday, and two people were killed by Russian shelling in the east. Yuriy Malashko, governor of Zaporizhzhia region, said a guided aviation bomb was used in Sunday’s attack on a school building being used …
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By Guy Faulconbridge and Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia’s top general, Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov, was shown ordering subordinates to destroy Ukrainian missile sites in a video released on Monday, his first appearance in public since a failed June 24 mercenary mutiny. The footage indicates that President Vladimir Putin has kept his …
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte will not run for a fifth term in office and will leave politics following the elections in November, he said on Monday. Rutte on Friday handed in the resignation of his fourth cabinet after failing to reach agreement on stricter immigration policies. “In recent days there’s been …
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WARSAW (Reuters) -Poland has detained another member of a Russian spy network, bringing the total number of people rounded up in an investigation to 15, the interior minister said on Monday. A hub for Western military supplies to Ukraine, Poland says it has become a major target of Russian spies and it accuses Moscow of …
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By Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber and Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) – The Human Rights Council is set to debate a contentious draft proposal on religious hatred in the wake of a Koran burning in Sweden, an initiative that has highlighted rifts in the U.N. body and challenged practices in human rights protection. In a draft resolution presented …
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(Reuters) -Here are some facts about NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, whose contract will be extended for a further year under a decision by the Western defence alliance: * Stoltenberg took on the NATO role in 2014 after serving as U.N. climate envoy and prime minister of Norway. He led Norway between 2005-2013 in a …
By Andrius Sytas VILNIUS (Reuters) -NATO holds a summit on July 11-12 in Lithuania, one of the three Baltic states that lived under Soviet rule for decades and were among the first NATO countries to send weapons to Kyiv after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Here are some details about the Baltic states – Estonia, Latvia …
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