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...Turkey’s parliament has voted in favour of Sweden joining Nato, marking a significant step forward in the Scandinavian country’s long-fought bid to enter the western military alliance....
...The US ambassador to Hungary has accused Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of running a “fantasy foreign policy” that serves the interests of the Kremlin and harms the unity of the Nato alliance....
...He said Nato was helping Kyiv to make its forces “more and more interoperable” with the defence alliance and would open a joint training and analysis centre in Poland. “Ukraine will join Nato....
...“No election campaign is an excuse for playing with the security of the alliance,” he said in a post on X....
...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....
...The remarks highlight the fraught tit-for-tat that has prolonged Sweden’s request to join the western alliance....
...Western Alliance surged 13 per cent to $35.70, and is up 37.7 per cent over the past five days. PacWest Bancorp jumped 18.3 per cent and Zions Bancorporation was up 11.4 per cent....
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...Sonko, who serves as mayor of the southern town of Ziguinchor, backed Faye, and their alliance ran a campaign saying the two men were one and the same....
...Although it has won plaudits for mediating in a detente between longtime rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran, western countries believe China has tacitly sided with Russia in the war against Ukraine while it has...
...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...
...personnel” at talks in China’s south-western city of Kunming....
...Faye’s party, La Coalition Diomaye Président, is an alliance of opposition groups formed after the government’s dissolution of Pastef....
...The remark was widely understood to be referring to his main opponent, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, a former tax inspector whose Coalition Diomaye Président is an alliance of groups formed after the government...
...To abandon them now in their hour of great need would demonstrate catastrophic western weakness at a moment of potential success: Russia would rejoice; the western alliance would crumble; and many would...
...However, some members of the alliance are sceptical that Russia’s president intends to attack a Nato member....
...Kent left Zurich in 2020 and went on to become head of credit risk management at GFG Alliance. Kent previously did not reply to a request for comment from the FT....
...Sweden became the 32nd member of Nato, ending a 22-month odyssey that strengthens the western military alliance from the Baltic Sea to the Arctic in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine....
...Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said Hungary was committed to ratifying Sweden’s bid to join Nato after Turkey opted to approve its accession to the western military alliance, leaving Budapest as the sole holdout...
...The EU’s chief diplomat and Germany’s chancellor joined other western leaders in condemning former US president Donald Trump’s suggestion that he would allow Russia to attack any Nato member that failed...
...“The message I’m getting from the US is that they want to see more and active participation in Nato by all of us within the alliance....
...Macron’s strategy was a big theme of his centrist alliance’s campaign launch in Lille on Saturday....
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