Here’s what to know about Sweden’s bumpy road toward NATO membership
Sweden’s bid to join NATO — held up for almost two years — cleared its next-to-last hurdle when Turkey’s parliament gave its go-ahead to let the Nordic country into the alliance.
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Sweden’s bid to join NATO — held up for almost two years — cleared its next-to-last hurdle when Turkey’s parliament gave its go-ahead to let the Nordic country into the alliance.
RUSSIAN firms based in the United Arab Emirates are coming under greater scrutiny from local banks as the Gulf state faces increased US pressure to tackle sanctions evasion and ramps up efforts to get off a global organization’s watch list.
Goldman Sachs chief economist Jim O’Neill coined the acronym BRIC in 2001—for Brazil, Russia, India, and China—to highlight these countries’ rapid economic expansion. Eight years later, the four countries established BRIC as a formal organization. The bloc became BRICS in 2010 when South Africa was admitted.
Western countries continue to try to isolate Russia completely, through numerous economic sanctions, bans on sports and culture, and refusal to engage in dialogue on various issues. Does this benefit people and will it lead to progress or resolution of the conflict in Ukraine?
KYIV, Ukraine — Under the plaintive painted eyes of the holy, a volunteer team of two United Nations-backed engineers watched as a whirling laser took a million measurements a second inside Kyiv’s All Saints Church.
SINGAPORE—As the United States and China vie to establish new partnerships and expand influence with Asia-Pacific nations, the top defense officials from both nations are preparing to try to win support this weekend from their regional counterparts, diplomats and leaders at a security forum in Singapore.
UNITED NATIONS—Warning of a new threat to global food security, the United Nations said Thursday that Russia is limiting the number of ships allowed to pick up Ukrainian grain at Black Sea ports in its campaign to get Kyiv to open a pipeline for a key ingredient of fertilizer to get to world markets.
TALLINN, Estonia—When Yekaterina Maksimova can’t afford to be late, the journalist and activist avoids taking the Moscow subway, even though it’s probably the most efficient route.
WASHINGTON—Once soft on Russia and hard on China, President Donald J. Trump rapidly reversed course in the last weeks, concluding there’s more business to be done with Beijing than with Moscow.
LUCCA, Italy—Foreign ministers from the Group-of-Seven (G-7) industrialized nations are gathering on Monday for a meeting given urgency by the chemical attack in Syria and the US military response, with participants aiming to pressure Russia to end its support for President Bashar al-Assad.
President Donald J. Trump’s fans in Moscow are fanning out across Washington, determined to salvage the rapprochement he promised despite a widening barrage of probes into the billionaire’s ties to Russia.
SAINT PETERSBURG, Russia—Investigators searched for possible accomplices of a 22-year-old native of the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan identified as the suicide bomber in the Saint Petersburg subway, as residents came to grips on Tuesday with the first major terrorist attack in Russia’s second-largest city since the Soviet collapse.
PLYMOUTH, Michigan—Amanda Kessel rediscovered just how good it feels to score a goal for your country.
UNITED NATIONS—UN talks aimed at banning nuclear weapons began on Monday, but the United States, Russia, China and other nuclear-armed nations are sitting out a discussion they see as impractical.
THE Department of Tourism (DOT) is taking an aggressive approach in trying to attract more Russians to visit the Philippines.
WASHINGTON—Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director James B. Comey took the extraordinary step on Monday of announcing that the bureau is investigating whether members of President Donald J. Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 election.
UNITED NATIONS—Russia and the Trump administration clashed in a vote at the United Nations Security Council for the first time on Tuesday, as the Kremlin vetoed a measure backed by the United States and its Western allies to punish Syria for using chemical weapons.
CLAIMS of hacking by the Russian state may be feeding international tensions, but they’ve given Californian musician David Brown a great icebreaker when selling his line of Russian-made microphones.
Russia has expressed interest in exporting pork, cattle and poultry meat to the Philippines during a recent meeting aimed at bolstering trade relations between the countries, the Department of Agriculture (DA) said on Sunday.
The Philippines will convene its respective joint commissions with Russia and China in the first half of 2017, underscoring the Duterte administration’s pivot for enhanced economic and trade relations with these two countries.
WASHINGTON—Russian warplanes have carried out air strikes to support Turkey’s offensive in northern Syria against the Islamic State (IS), an important evolution in a budding Russian-Turkish partnership. The deepening ties threaten to marginalize the United States in the struggle to shape Syria’s ultimate fate.
FACING calls to strike back at Russia for what US intelligence agencies have termed Moscow’s interference with the 2016 US presidential election campaign, Donald J. Trump instead suggested warmer relations between the two countries.
PRESIDENT Duterte will consider joint naval exercises with Russia to enhance the countries’ maritime cooperation, Presidential Spokesman Ernesto C. Abella said on Thursday, months after the Philippines decided to reduce military exercises with the United States.
BEIRUT—The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution on Saturday supporting efforts by Russia and Turkey to end the nearly six-year conflict in Syria and jump-start peace negotiations, as a fragile country-wide cease-fire wavered.
BEIRUT—A cease-fire brokered by Russia and Turkey went into effect in war-ravaged Syria at midnight on Thursday, a potential breakthrough in the six years of fighting that have left more than a quarter-million people dead and triggered a refugee crisis across Europe.
By Vladimir Isachenkov & Veronika Silchenko | The Associated Press
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