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Turkey Says Will Not Be Pressured Over Sweden’s NATO Bid
Turkey is angry at Sweden for allowing protests at which anti-Islamic figures burned pages from the Koran AFP Turkey warned Tuesday it will not be pressured into backing Sweden’s bid…
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EU Presses Tunisia In Bid To Stem Med Migrant Flow
At least 82 migrants died when a trawler capsized off Greece on June 14, and many more are feared missing AFP EU leaders meeting in Brussels on Thursday are to…
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Manchester City Sends Official Bid For Rice, Also Wants PSG Star
Declan Rice of West Ham United Getty Images | Chloe Knott – Danehouse KEY POINTS Manchester City has sent a $101 million bid to West Ham United for Declan Rice…
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Turkey Won’t Back Swedish NATO Bid Unless It Stops Anti-Turkish Protests -Erdogan
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan greets members of the parliament and guests as he arrives to take his oath after his election win in Ankara, Turkey, June 3, 2023. Reuters Sweden…
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French Parliament Chief To Block Bid To Axe Pension Overhaul
Tuesday’s nationwide protest against the reform was the fourteenth but smallest to date AFP France’s opposition parties on Wednesday vowed to submit a no-confidence motion against the government after the…
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Ex-US Vice President Mike Pence To Launch 2024 Election Bid, Challenging Trump
Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence addresses the National Review Institute’s 2023 Ideas Summit in Washington, U.S., March 31, 2023. Reuters Former Vice President Mike Pence, who served Donald Trump…
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NATO Chief Urges Turkey Not To Veto Sweden’s Bid
The trip comes as pressure builds on Erdogan to greenlight Sweden’s NATO memberhsip AFP NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Sunday called on Ankara to drop its opposition to Sweden’s bid…
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NATO Upbeat On Sweden Bid As US Urges Turkey To Say Yes
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Sweden’s Foreign Minister Tobias Billstroem share a laugh at the start of a NATO meeting in Brussels on April 4, 2023 AFP NATO’s…
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Swiatek Starts French Open Bid As Djokovic Defiant In Kosovo Row
‘Kosovo our cradle’: Novak Djokovic after his win over Aleksandar Kovacevic on Monday AFP Iga Swiatek begins her bid to become the first woman in 16 years to successfully defend…
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Biden Says He And Erdogan Talked About F-16s, Sweden’s NATO Bid
A Turkish Air Force F16 jet lands at a new airport under construction in Istanbul, Turkey September 22, 2018. Reuters U.S. President Joe Biden said that in a call on…
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Ron DeSantis’ 2024 presidential bid announcement plagued by technical glitch
G20 delegates attending Srinagar meeting to enhance tourism: Official Ending months of speculation, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis finally launched his bid for the 2024 US presidential election on Twitter, but…
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‘What I Promised’: Greek PM Touts Economy In Re-election Bid
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is running on his economic record AFP To build a successful company in Greece, the CEO of the popular ship tracking firm MarineTraffic says he…
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Senegal Opposition Leader Appeals Conviction Threatening His Presidential Bid
Opposition leader Ousmane Sonko speaks during a news conference in Dakar, Senegal March 8, 2021. Reuters Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko has appealed a libel conviction that could prevent him…
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Eyeing White House Bid, DeSantis Targets Chinese Influence
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis described the Chinese Communist Party as America’s “greatest geopolitical threat” AFP Florida Governor and likely presidential candidate Ron DeSantis signed multiple bills Monday aimed at curbing…
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Israel Court Denies Bid To Force Demolition Of West Bank Village
A demonstration in January, 2023 against the evacuation of Khan al-Ahmar, a Bedouin village slated for demolition since 2018 AFP Israel’s top court denied on Sunday a petition by a…
