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Luxembourg's 2024 budget unveiled, Sweden joins NATO, and US announces port for Gaza aid
08 Mar 2024 11:16 GMT
Your Weekly Recap for 4–8 March.
Here are five things you should know at the end of this week:
Finance Minister unveils 2024 budget
Hesperange Mayor under fire for immigration comments
CFL officials deny knowledge of security staff misconduct
Sweden …
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Estonia's leaders welcome Turkish parliament go-ahead on Sweden NATO accession
24 Jan 2024 11:22 GMT
Estonia's leaders have welcomed a vote at the Turkish parliament on Tuesday which gave the green light to Sweden joining NATO, following many months of anticipation and delays. Hungary is now the only member state still to be holding out on the matter. …
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Biden sees hopeful signs for reelection in Democrats’ 2023 wins. Others in his party are worried
18 Nov 2023 20:57 GMT
WASHINGTON — Surrounded by dozens of Democratic donors at a glass art gallery space in Chicago earlier this month, President Joe Biden urged them to look beyond negative poll numbers and feel assured their donations were not being wasted.
Then Biden joked …
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Sweden divided after way is cleared for its accession to NATO
12 Jul 2023 09:29 GMT
Demonstration against NATO, Stockholm, June 4, 2023. MAJA SUSLIN / AP Sweden laughs – and Sweden frowns. In the wake of the Turkish agreement to NATO membership for this country of 10.5 million inhabitants, announced on Monday evening, July 10, in …
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What are the terms under which Turkey’s Erdogan agreed to back Sweden’s NATO bid?
11 Jul 2023 04:06 GMT
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced on Monday that Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has agreed to “ensure the ratification” of Sweden’s bid to join NATO.
Turkey had for long refused to ratify Sweden’s NATO accession over objections of …
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Ocasio-Cortez endorses Biden’s reelection campaign, sending strong signal of Democratic unity
07 Jul 2023 21:56 GMT
NEW YORK — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has endorsed President Joe Biden's reelection campaign, sending a strong sign of Democratic unity from one of the party's most liberal members.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., seen speaking at a May …
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A Mass Workers' Party?
28 May 2021 11:58 GMT
SHAUN WHITTAKER and HARRY BOESAK
WHAT DOES the removal of the leaders of the Landless People's Movement (LPM) from the Namibian parliament say about multiparty democracy in the country?
It means that parliament is not a democratic space, but it is also …
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Reasons for Sweden's NATO membership deadlock
05 Feb 2023 02:38 GMT
Swedish Defense Minister Pal Jonson, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom at a press conference on Sweden's NATO bid in Stockholm, January 24, 2023. PONTUS LUNDAHL / AFP It was supposed to be an express …
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Sweden's NATO Bid In Jeopardy After Quran Burning Outside Turkish Embassy
23 Jan 2023 05:35 GMT
Sweden's bid to join North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was further jeopardised after a local politician Rasmus Paludan set fire to a copy of the Quran on Saturday (21 January) in front of Turkey's embassy in Stockholm.
Angered over the …
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Erdogan effigy stunt in Sweden aimed to reveal ‘dictatorial’ Turkey
17 Jan 2023 14:03 GMT
STOCKHOLM: Pro-Kurdish activists in Stockholm who hanged an effigy of Turkey’s president, further impeding Sweden’s bid to join NATO, say their stunt aimed to draw attention to Ankara’s “dictatorial” regime. The brazen stunt in front of the city hall …