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February 28, 2023
Sunak visits Northern Ireland after sealing ‘historic’ deal with EU
February 28, 2023
Serbia, Kosovo leaders back EU plan, top diplomat says
HELSINKI —Finland begins its final debate in parliament on Tuesday on NATO membership, without waiting for the approval of Turkey and Hungary.Nor is Helsinki waiting for neighboring Sweden, which has also been a candidate since last year but is currently facing a Turkish veto. The government of outgoing Prime Minister Sanna Marin wants to avoid any potential political vacuum, with elections due on April 2.“We would have hoped to become members of NATO already. Finland and Sweden fulfil all the criteria, as has been mentioned, and we are yet waiting. And of course, this strains the open-door policy of NATO; it’s also to do with NATO’s credibility,” Marin said.The 200 members of the Finnish parliament, the Eduskunta, are due to begin debating the NATO accession bill on Tuesday,...
February 28, 2023
Finland takes step towards joining NATO without waiting for Sweden
February 28, 2023
Drone crash near Moscow was failed attack, governor says
ROME — Police in Italy have arrested three people on suspicion of people-trafficking following the deaths of at least 64 migrants in a shipwreck off the country’s southern coast on Sunday.The three detained were a Turkish man and two Pakistani nationals. Most of those on the wooden vessel, thought to carry 200 people, were said to be from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, Iraq and Iran.Officials have warned the final death toll could climb to more than 100. Rescuers pulled another body from the sea, that of a man, on Tuesday morning.The three men arrested are said to have sailed the boat from Izmir in Turkey to Calabria in Italy despite bad weather conditions.Police say they allegedly asked the migrants for about €8,000 (£7,000; $8,500) each to make the long journey. The vessel...
February 28, 2023
Italy shipwreck: Police arrest three for alleged trafficking
February 28, 2023
NATO boss Stoltenberg says Ukraine to join bloc in ‘long term’
February 28, 2023
Zelensky says situation in Bakhmut worsening
February 28, 2023
Woman single-handedly takes on BA and wins
February 27, 2023
China’s peace plan: Russia says no conditions for ‘peaceful’ solution for Ukraine ‘for now’
February 27, 2023
NATO: Turkey says talks over Sweden and Finland’s membership to resume on March 9
