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.
Ministers and oil industry chiefs are gathering for the biggest energy conference in the Middle East as crude heads toward $100 a barrel. Whether prices can hold at these levels and the outlook for Opec+ supply cuts are among topics that will be discussed from Monday.
THE Philippines has remained out of the European Commission’s intellectual property (IP) rights watch list, marking five years since the last mention of the country in 2019, according to the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL).
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.
ANKARA, Turkey — The president of Turkey, South Korea’s prime minister and other officials inaugurated a massive suspension bridge Friday over the Dardanelles Strait that connects the European and Asian shores of the key waterway.
BERLIN—Senior German officials cast doubt last Saturday on Turkey’s chances of joining the European Union, amid growing tensions with Ankara over human rights and Turkey’s claim that it’s being treated unfairly by countries in western Europe.
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.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark—Heavy snowfall and below-freezing temperatures continued to sweep the European continent on Saturday, causing more than a dozen deaths, grounding airplanes and crippling ferries in Italy and Turkey.
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 Susan Selasky / Detroit Free Press
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