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International
5/24/2022 3:38:49 PM
Finland's foreign minister said at the annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos that a delegation from his country and Sweden will travel to the Turkish capital amid pushback from Turkey on the Nordic nations' application to join NATO.
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World
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Region
5/21/2022 9:39:00 PM
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday said Turkey would not look "positively" on Sweden and Finland's NATO bids unless its terror-related concerns were addressed, despite broad support from other allies including the United States.
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War in Ukraine
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Economy
5/21/2022 3:51:20 PM
Russia halted gas exports to neighbouring Finland on Saturday, a highly symbolic move that came just days after the Nordic country announced it wanted to join NATO and marked a likely end to Finland's nearly 50 years of importing natural gas from Russia.
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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
5/20/2022 3:09:56 PM
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday said he was talking to Western leaders about Turkey's objections to NATO membership for Sweden and Finland, whom he accuses of sheltering Kurdish militants.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
5/19/2022 5:11:15 PM
Turkey's leader flatly opposes having Sweden and Finland join NATO but the military alliance's top official said Thursday he was confident that the standoff would be resolved and that the two Nordic nations would join soon.
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World
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International
5/18/2022 9:29:58 PM
NATO envoys failed to reach a consensus Wednesday on whether to start membership talks with Finland and Sweden, diplomats said, as Turkey renewed its objections to the two Nordic countries joining.
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World
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International
5/18/2022 7:40:53 PM
President Zoran Milanovic of Croatia wants his country to follow Turkey's example by trying to block Sweden and Finland from joining NATO.
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World
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Region
5/18/2022 1:25:40 PM
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has threatened to block Finland and Sweden from joining NATO, urged the alliance's members on Wednesday to "respect" Ankara's concerns about the two countries, which Turkey accuses of harbouring terrorists.
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Diplomacy
5/18/2022 10:53:55 AM
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Wednesday that the military alliance stands ready to seize a historic moment and move quickly on allowing Finland and Sweden to join its ranks, after the two countries submitted their membership requests.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
5/17/2022 10:53:50 PM
Finland and Sweden have announced that they will join NATO, ending their traditional neutrality and putting additional pressure on Moscow, writes Ahmed Eleiba
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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
5/17/2022 7:54:57 PM
Finland and Sweden will submit their bids to join NATO together Wednesday, the two Nordic countries announced, despite Turkey's threat to block the military alliance's expansion.
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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 2:08:01 PM
Moscow said on Tuesday that two employees of Finland's embassy in Russia will have to leave the country in response to a similar move by Helsinki.
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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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