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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
5/17/2022 5:32:08 PM
Sweden and Finland on Tuesday pushed ahead with their bids to join NATO even as Turkey insisted it won't let the previously non-aligned Nordic countries into the alliance because of their alleged support for Kurdish militants.
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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
5/17/2022 4:29:27 PM
President Joe Biden will host Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson of Sweden and President Sauli Niinisto of Finland at the White House for a meeting Thursday amid their push to join NATO in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine
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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
5/17/2022 2:47:32 PM
Russia said Tuesday it was quitting the Council of the Baltic Sea States amid raging tensions with the West over Moscow's offensive in Ukraine.
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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
5/17/2022 12:15:00 PM
The leader of a Turkish nationalist party that is allied with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is expressing concern that NATO's expansion to include Sweden and Finland will provoke Russia and cause an expansion of the war in Ukraine.
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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
5/17/2022 11:06:00 AM
Sweden on Tuesday signed a formal request to join NATO, a day after the country announced it would seek membership in the 30-member military alliance. In neighboring Finland, lawmakers are expected later in the day to formally endorse Finnish leaders' decision also to join.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
5/16/2022 10:04:24 PM
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Finland and Sweden on Monday to expect a "response" for applying to join NATO as Ukraine braced for a new push by Moscow's forces in its eastern Donbas region.
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World
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Region
5/16/2022 8:34:08 PM
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday confirmed Turkey's opposition to NATO membership for Finland and Sweden, again accusing them of failing to take a clear stance against terrorism.
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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
5/16/2022 3:02:35 PM
Finland and Sweden have signaled their intention to join NATO over Russia's war in Ukraine and things will move fast once they formally apply for membership in the world's biggest security alliance.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
5/16/2022 3:00:25 PM
Europe pushed Monday to sharpen and expand its response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, with Sweden poised to follow Finland in seeking membership of NATO and European Union officials working to rescue proposed sanctions that would target Russian oil exports helping the Kremlin finance its war.
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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
5/16/2022 10:13:30 AM
Almost three months after Russia shocked the world by invading Ukraine, its military faces a bogged-down war, the prospect of a bigger NATO and an opponent buoyed Sunday by wins on and off the battlefield.
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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
5/16/2022 10:08:56 AM
Canada says it supports plans from Finland and Sweden to join NATO amid Russia's war in Ukraine.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
5/15/2022 9:04:59 PM
With Finland and Sweden inching closer to applying for NATO membership amid Russia's war in Ukraine, the list of ``neutral'' or nonaligned countries in Europe appears poised to shrink.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
5/15/2022 7:35:29 PM
NATO on Sunday pledged open-ended military support for Ukraine, as Finland hailed its "historic" bid to join the alliance and with Western claims that Russia had suffered heavy losses in its push east.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
5/15/2022 1:40:05 PM
Finland will apply for NATO membership, the Nordic country's president and the prime minister announced Sunday, as a result of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
5/14/2022 5:29:31 PM
Russian troops are withdrawing from around Ukraine's second-largest city after bombarding it for weeks, the Ukrainian military said Saturday, as Kyiv and Moscow's forces engaged in a grinding battle for the country's eastern industrial heartland.
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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
5/14/2022 4:55:23 PM
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned his Finnish counterpart Saturday that relations between the two neighbours could be ``negatively affected`` if Finland follows through with plans to apply for NATO membership.
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World
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International
5/14/2022 2:02:08 PM
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday said Turkey did not have a "positive opinion" on Finland and Sweden joining NATO, throwing up a potential obstacle for the nations' membership bid.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
5/14/2022 12:47:55 PM
Journalists packed a small courtroom in Kyiv for the trial of a captured Russian soldier accused of killing a Ukrainian civilian in the early days of the war, the first of dozens of war crimes cases that Ukraine's top prosecutor said her office is pursuing.
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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
5/13/2022 5:45:56 PM
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday said he doubted the motives of Ukraine's intention of joining the European Union while accusing Brussels of ambitions beyond the European continent.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
5/13/2022 5:38:00 PM
The military involvement of NATO in the war in Ukraine is becoming a serious threat to international peace and security and has brought the world closer than ever to the use of nuclear weapons.
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