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UK announces further military support for Ukraine
London: The UK will provide another 1 billion pounds of military support to Ukraine, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced at a NATO Leaders’ Summit in Madrid on Thursday. This latest funding…
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NATO summit opens amid controversy, internal discord
Madrid: The 2022 Summit of the NATO opened in Madrid amid mounting criticism of the military alliance’s aggressive security policy and lingering conflicts among its members. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told…
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Turkey lifts objections to Finland, Sweden joining NATO
Turkey agreed Tuesday to lift its opposition to Sweden and Finland joining NATO, a breakthrough in an impasse clouding a leaders’ summit in Madrid amid Europe’s worst security crisis in decades triggered…
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NATO to put 300,000 troops on high alert in response to Russia threat
Madrid: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said this weeks Madrid summit will agree the alliances most significant transformation for a generation, putting 300,000 troops at high readiness in response to Russias invasion…
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Turkey won’t allow terror-supporting nations to join NATO: Erdogan
Ankara: Turkey will not allow “terrorism-supporting” countries to join the NATO, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, underlining the talks with Sweden and Finland on their intention to join the military alliance have…
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Erdogan says Turkey will OPPOSE Finland and Sweden’s NATO bid
Ankara: Turkey would say “no” to Finland and Sweden’s NATO membership bid, as the country would not make the same “mistake” again, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said. “We told our relevant…
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US offers ‘full, total, complete’ support for Sweden, Finland’s NATO applications
Washington: US President Joe Biden on Thursday offered “full, total, complete” support for Sweden and Finlands applications to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Sweden and Finland had applied for membership…
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Turkey blocked start of NATO talks on Sweden, Finland accession – Reports
Moscow: Turkey has blocked the start of consideration of the application for accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO, the Financial Times reported citing an informed source. NATO ambassadors met on Wednesday…
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Finland, Sweden made a grave mistake: Russian Minister
Moscow: Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said that Finland and Sweden have “made a grave mistake” with their intentions to join the NATO military alliance. He stressed that Russia would not…
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Finland’s ruling party backs NATO application
Helsinki: Finland’s ruling Social Democratic Party has endorsed the plan for making the country a member of the NATO military alliance. The endorsement was made on Saturday by the Party Council, the…
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Finland joining NATO would be a ‘mistake’, says Putin
Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned his Finnish counterpart that joining NATO and abandoning Finland’s neutral status would be a “mistake”, the media reported. He told Sauli Niinisto there was no threat…
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Erdogan says Turkey doesn’t support Finland, Sweden joining NATO
Ankara: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that he does not have a positive opinion on the idea of Finland and Sweden joining the NATO military alliance. “We are currently following the…
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Finland joining NATO a threat to Russia: Kremlin
Moscow: Russia would see Finland’s accession to the NATO military alliance as a threat and the move would not contribute to more security, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday, media reports…
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Russia will destroy NATO countries in half an hour in case of nuclear war: Roscosmos chief
Moscow: The chief of Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, said that Russia would destroy NATO countries in the event of a nuclear war in half an hour, so he urged them…
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NATO transport with weapons for Ukraine will be destroyed: Russian Minister
Moscow: Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has said that NATO vehicles arriving in Ukraine with weapons and ammunition for Ukrainian troops would be destroyed, RT reported. Shoigu stressed that the US and…
