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Greece and Cyprus would object to any proposal suggesting fast-tracking Ukraine’s accession to the EU, Euractiv reported on Friday, citing anonymous diplomats. A source from the Greek Foreign Ministry told the outlet that Athens would insist on all the procedures stipulated under Article 49 of the EU Treaty being adhered …

Denmark, Iceland, and Norway have joined a growing number of countries offering defense pledges to Sweden and Finland, which have both formally embarked on membership bids in the NATO military alliance.  Citing Helsinki and Stockholm’s “right to choose their own security arrangements” as sovereign nations, the three European states declared …

Turkey is not seeking to outright shoot down the accession of Sweden and Finland to the US-led NATO bloc, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s top adviser Ibrahim Kalin told Reuters on Saturday. Nonetheless, Ankara’s concerns about organizations it deems to be “terrorist” that are operating in these countries must be addressed, …

The Central Bank of Russia (CBR) said on Tuesday it will stop disclosing the identity of participants in the System for Transfer of Financial Messages (SPFS), the country’s alternative to SWIFT. Until recently, the list was posted on the regulator’s website. “Under the current circumstances, we decided not to disclose …

Canada has joined the US in personalising punishments against Russia over the Ukraine conflict, by imposing new sanctions on President Vladimir Putin’s immediate family members Ottawa’s latest sanctions target 14 individuals connected to the “Russian regime,” including Katerina and Maria, the president’s adult daughters. Both women are in their 30s and …

Terrorist group Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) has called on its members and supporters to wage jihad against Europe and Israel while the West is distracted by the situation in Ukraine, according to an online message posted cited by the Times on Monday. Jihadists should strike while those the group …

The European Commission has told member states that it believes a new scheme, which Russia wants foreign buyers to use to pay for natural gas, will violate the bloc’s sanctions, Bloomberg reported on Thursday citing an anonymous source. Moscow wants all payments to go through one bank and be converted into …

Speaking on MSNBC, Fauci said people should avoid seeing their unvaxxed relatives for the holiday season, suggesting get-togethers could resume at “another time,” when the Covid-19 pandemic is “all over.” He did not offer any estimate for when that might occur. “I think we’re dealing with a serious enough situation …

That’s according to the American news agency Bloomberg, which cited an anonymous diplomat claiming that his unnamed country is furious and seeks immediate clarification on just precisely what Biden plans to discuss with Moscow. Another source, also a diplomat, expressed concern that the US may approve concessions that might lead …

However, Washington has pledged that it’s prepared to “bolster” members of its NATO military bloc. “We do not know whether Putin has made a decision about further military escalation in Ukraine, but we do know he’s putting in place the capacity to engage in such escalation should he decide to do …