Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...of Nato, which is seen as impossible by many alliance members....
...The Microsoft-G42 deal appears to be the start of a broader alliance between the US and UAE over AI....
...Western officials have repeatedly warned in recent months that Moscow could challenge the military alliance’s mutual defence clause with hybrid or military attacks on Estonia, Latvia or Lithuania — the three...
...Sweden finally joined Nato on Thursday, meaning the western defence alliance has nearly ringed the entire Baltic Sea, a significant oil trading route for Russia and home to one of its fleets....
...Sweden’s membership of the Atlantic alliance, as well as his weakening of democratic standards and the rule of law in Hungary....
...Zelenskyy recently criticised western allies for what he called an “artificial deficit of weapons”. The EU has delivered less than half of the artillery shells it had promised by spring 2024....
...In doing so, the Russian president committed, in the words of one senior western diplomat, “a breach of civilisation” as he sought to remove Ukraine’s right to exist....
...“No election campaign is an excuse for playing with the security of the alliance,” he said in a post on X....
...He maintained that Europe has taken advantage of the US when it comes to Nato, adding the alliance was “more important to [Europe] than it is to us”....
...The Kremlin has said a conflict between Russia and Nato would be inevitable if the western alliance sent troops to fight in Ukraine. “In that case, it wouldn’t be likely, but inevitable....
...Anna Rasmussen, chief negotiator for the Alliance of Small Island States, said: “We are a little confused about what just happened....
...factories in the US state of Washington....
...The remarks highlight the fraught tit-for-tat that has prolonged Sweden’s request to join the western alliance....
...In an unusual twist, Dave McCall, president of the United Steelworkers union, which opposes the deal, will attend the state dinner....
...alliances and friendships around the world....
...Nato is to start planning a $100bn military aid programme for Ukraine, according to the alliance’s head, despite the US urging caution over aspects of a proposal aiming to “Trump proof” western support....
...personnel” at talks in China’s south-western city of Kunming....
...“The network has been all but stripped bare,” Hill-Lewis, a rising star of the main opposition Democratic Alliance, said of the state-run rail system that now carries a fraction of the passenger numbers...
...Underscoring the tensions, opposition leader John Steenhuisen last week attacked “political opportunists in small parties” for competing with his Democratic Alliance for votes in its Western Cape heartland...
...Arvind Kejriwal, the AAP’s head, said this week that the party planned to contest all 13 of Punjab’s lower house seats alone, in effect ruling out a poll alliance with his INDIA partners in the state....
...of new alliances with Russian President Vladimir Putin....
...The Baltic states remain sceptical about beefing up the EU’s role in defence at the expense of Nato despite doubts over the US commitment to the alliance should Donald Trump return to the White House....
...Since the ruling, Tegut has paused the capital-heavy expansion of teo supermarkets in its home state....
...It said the list might as well include state employees’ meals at its restaurants or accounts with its banks....
...Other western defence officials in recent weeks have issued an unprecedented number of public warnings of the possibility of a broader conflict in Europe with a more confident and rearmed Russia....
International Edition