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Tributes paid to former leader who oversaw his country’s vote to join EU and won Nobel peace prize in 2008

Finland’s former Prime Minister Alexander Stubb says he will run as a candidate in the presidential election early next year, in a race that also includes a popular former Finnish foreign minister who was a negotiator of the country’s recent membership in NATO

The timing couldn’t have been worse. Turkey had already threatened to derail Sweden’s NATO aspirations when a far-right extremist set fire to a Koran outside the Turkish embassy in Stockholm. On Friday, Ankara issued its verdict on Sweden and Finland’s joint NATO bid: For now, Turkey would only start ratifying…

From Europe to India and the US, the revelations have fuelled anger from the drivers to politicians

Sweden and Finland are starting to win assurances of help if threatened by Russia in the interim period between an expected application to join defense alliance NATO and an eventual entry.

Alexander Stubb, who has long backed NATO membership, speaks to Al Jazeera about Helsinki’s decision to join alliance.

Finland’s parliament has begun discussing report outlining implications and risks of Nato membership

Russia has threatened to deploy nuclear weapons to the Baltics should Sweden or Finland join Nato

It is thought a decision on Nato membership could be made as soon as the summer as a consequence of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Finland could submit its application for Nato membership within weeks, its Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto has suggested.

Finland shares a 830-mile border with Russia.