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Davos 2023: Finland hopes Turkish minister's U.S. trip will boost its NATO membership bid

Finland said on Tuesday it hoped that Turkey's foreign minister's trip to the United States this week would bring positive impetus for it and Sweden's bids to join NATO, which have been held up as they lack backing from Turkey and Hungary.

Reuters

NATO Deploys Surveillance Planes to Romania, to Monitor Russian Activity

NATO surveillance planes were due to arrive in Romania on Tuesday to bolster the military alliance's eastern flank and help monitor Russian military activity. NATO announced last week it would deploy the Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) surveillance planes to Bucharest, where they will start reconnaissance flights solely over…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Ukraine's tanks sent by the West 'will burn like the rest' - Russia

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called for heavy weapons from the West and praised Britain for already deciding to send them.

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NATO deploys surveillance planes to Romania, to monitor Russian activity

A NATO surveillance plane arrived in Romania on Tuesday to bolster the military alliance's eastern flank and help monitor Russian military activity.

Reuters

Türkiye’s Top Diplomat Travels to US amid Troubled Ties

Türkiye and the United States will aim to smooth out a series of disagreements between the NATO allies when the Turkish foreign minister visits Washington this week. But expectations that outstanding issues can be resolved are low. Mevlut Cavusoglu departs on Tuesday for a meeting with US counterpart Antony Blinken…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Live updates | World Economic Forum gathering in Davos

Polish President Andrzej Duda is predicting that the German government will agree one day to send powerful Leopard tanks to Ukraine, citing Germany’s membership in NATO and rising public support for Ukrainians beleaguered by Russia’s war

The Independent UK

Turkey's top diplomat travels to US amid troubled ties

Turkey and the United States will aim to smooth out a series of disagreements between the NATO allies when Turkey’s foreign minister visits this week

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Sweden, Finland Must Send up to 130 ‘Terrorists’ to Türkiye for NATO Bid, Erdogan Says

Sweden and Finland must deport or extradite up to 130 "terrorists" to Türkiye before the Turkish parliament will approve their bids to join NATO, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said. The two Nordic states applied last year to join NATO following Russia's invasion of Ukraine but their bids must be approved…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Europe awakens to the threat of sabotage by Russian agents

Attacks on critical infrastructure from France to Denmark bear the hallmark of Russian operatives, experts say.

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Tribune News Service

Latvia urges Western allies to step up military aid for Ukraine

Latvian President Egils Levits says Ukraine needs more support to resist a potential new Russian offensive.

Al Jazeera

UK offers tanks in Ukraine’s hour of need, but will Germany follow suit?

Britain’s offer to send more than a dozen Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine has increased pressure on Germany to do likewise with its coveted Leopard 2 battle tanks. But the German defence minister’s resignation on Monday, just days before a critical meeting at the US Air Base in Ramstein, Germany,…

France 24

Send in the tanks? NATO, Russia and the next phase of Ukraine war

Russia's cruise missile strike on an apartment building far from any strategic target sends calling cards to both Ukraine and its NATO allies. We ask about the consequences of the Dnipro attack, both domestically and among member states of the Alliance. Ever since the Russian invasion of Ukraine last year,…

France 24

Will the West deliver the tanks Ukraine is asking for?

Ukraine hopes German-made Leopard 2 battle tanks will become the backbone of a new fighting force.

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The Guardian - UK

UK seeks more German support as it confirms Challenger tanks for Ukraine

Ben Wallace wants Berlin to allow its Leopard 2 tanks to be re-exported from Nato countries to join British heavy armour

Tribune News Service

Turkish President Erdogan keeps the world guessing on NATO expansion

Six months after Turkey agreed to NATO allies inviting Sweden and Finland to join the alliance, the expansion has stalled as Ankara holds out on ratifying the applications.

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine will need more tanks if it is to make breakthrough

UK is sending 14 tanks, and other countries may soon send more but experts say Kyiv needs about 100

Reuters

Sweden, Finland must send up to 130 "terrorists" to Turkey for NATO bid, Erdogan says

Sweden and Finland must deport or extradite up to 130 "terrorists" to Turkey before the Turkish parliament will approve their bids to join NATO, President Tayyip Erdogan said.

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Swedish prosecutor to take no action over hanging Erdogan effigy - newspaper

A Swedish prosecutor said on Monday there would be no formal investigation into a demonstration last week in Stockholm in which a life-size effigy of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan was hung from a lamppost by its feet, the Aftonbladet reported.

Reuters

Davos 2023: Europe, NATO to build Ukraine unity in Russian no-go zone

As fears of a new Russian offensive from Belarus mount in Ukraine, Kyiv's allies are seeking to forge greater unity and to ramp up support at the Davos meeting of political and business leaders, where Russians are conspicuous by their absence.

The Guardian - AU

UK confirms it will send Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine and pressures Germany to increase support – as it happened

UK defence secretary says west is accelerating efforts to support Ukraine but urges Germany to permit supply of Leopard tanks

Asharq Al-Awsat

Iraqi PM Stresses Need for US Troops to Remain in his Country

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani defended the open-ended presence of US and other foreign troops in his country, in an interview published Sunday. "We think that we need the foreign forces," Sudani told The Wall Street Journal in his first US interview since taking office in October. US and…

The Conversation

What's next for the anti-Nato left after Ukraine?

When Russian troops invaded Ukraine in February 2022, much of the political left across the western world were faced with a dilemma. Unlike in 2003 – when US oil interests seemed to explain the invasion of Iraq all too neatly – this time it was much more difficult to put…

ABC News

Can Western-made heavy tanks push back Russian troops and break the Ukraine war stalemate?

More NATO countries are expected to follow suit after Britain became the first country to finally send Western-made heavy tanks to Ukraine. This is why Kyiv sees them as vital to winning the war.

Al Jazeera

NATO chief hints at more heavy weapons deliveries to Ukraine

Jens Stoltenberg says he expects more weapons deliveries to war-torn Ukraine after UK pledges Challenger 2 tanks.

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