STOCKHOLM, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Hungary has repeated a promise that it will not be the last NATO country to ratify Sweden’s application to join the alliance, Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom said on Tuesday after meeting his Hungarian counterpart earlier in the week.
Sweden applied to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in May last year in a major shift in security strategy following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
It hoped for smooth accession process, but the application has been held up by Turkey and Hungary that have so far refused to support it.
Billstrom said he met Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto in Brussels on Monday and asked whether Hungary stood by its promise not to be the last NATO member to approve Sweden.
Turkey indicated in late November it could be ready to approve Sweden as a NATO member within a few weeks.
But President Tayyip Erdogan has linked the process to Turkey’s hopes of buying F-16 fighter jets from the United States, a deal Congress has delayed.
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Yes, as you may be (not) aware, Google Play is also on PC
Not really the same thing unless Windows was trying to take a commission from Epic for games sold through the Epic app which was downloaded through the Windows Store, and basically everyone used the Windows Store (which I assume almost no one does).
I need a small electric truck. No frills. The current EV, and even non EV trucks are too damn big and have too many features for a work truck. The beds are too high to sling drywall and plywood on. They are building trucks for people with money that like the idea of a truck but don’t actually use trucks.
But in an October report seen by Reuters, the interior ministry’s local office said the school was suffering from administrative and financial dysfunction and that some teaching did not align with French republican values.
In September, the education minister banned the abaya, the loose-fitting, full-length robe worn by some Muslim women, in public schools.
Averroes headmaster Eric Dufour said he had yet to receive notification from the interior ministry’s local office, but that the school intended to challenge the decision in administrative court.
And a 2020 education ministry inspection report that Reuters reviewed said that “nothing in the observations … allows (us) to think teaching practices don’t respect republican values”.
Mohamed Daoudi said the main reason he chose Averroes for his 12-year-old son was its excellent results, and that he and other parents felt the interior ministry local office’s decision was an injustice.
A project director in the tech industry, Daoudi said he had lived abroad for 15 years and was ready to leave again if the school were to close.
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MADRID/LONDON, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Zara pulled an advertising campaign featuring mannequins with missing limbs and statues wrapped in white from the front page of its website and app on Monday after it prompted calls by some pro-Palestine activists for a boycott of the fashion retailer.
Zara’s Instagram account saw tens of thousands of comments posted about the photos, many with Palestinian flags, while “#BoycottZara” was trending on messaging platform X.
The reaction highlights heightened sensitivity international brands are navigating as fighting across Gaza intensifies and calls for company boycotts rise.
The photos, which featured on Zara’s online store home page on Monday morning, were no longer visible on the website or on its app by 1230 GMT.
Dolce & Gabbana was removed from ecommerce sites in China in 2018 after a campaign showing models struggling to eat typical Italian food with chopsticks – decried as racist by local celebrities and social media.
Zara last year came under fire from some Palestinians and Israelis after the head of the retailer’s local franchise in Israel hosted a campaign event for an ultranationalist politician.
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Where I’m living now in South East Asia I’m seeing so many little Chinese EVs, specifically the Wuling Air. Heck, I kinda want one myself but I don’t trust it to last since I never even heard of the company till a few years back. If a more established automaker made a good, cheap, tiny EV, I’d totally get one.
MOSCOW, Dec 9 (Reuters) - A man with dual U.S.-Russian nationality has been placed in pre-trial custody in St Petersburg for “rehabilitating Nazism” in posts on social media, the city’s court service said on Saturday.
Yuri Malev was charged over posts in which he was alleged to have denigrated the St George’s ribbon, a symbol of Russian military valour.
One contained obscene language and the other showed a picture of a corpse wearing the ribbon.
The court service statement said Malev, who was detained in St. Petersburg on Friday, had “partially admitted guilt”, but did not elaborate.
Several Americans and dual citizens are being held in Russia, including former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan and Wall Street Journal journalist Evan Gershkovich.
Last week, a Russian court extended the pre-trial detention of Russian-American journalist Alsu Kurmasheva, charged with failing to register as a “foreign agent”, an offence that carries up to five years in prison.
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TOKYO, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida plans to make changes to his cabinet and his party executive following media reports that lawmakers received undeclared political funds, the Asahi newspaper reported on Sunday, citing government and party sources.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno, Industry Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura and LDP’s policy chief Koichi Hagiuda are set to be replaced as they are among those suspected of having failed to declare political funds properly, the Asahi newspaper reported.
Tokyo prosecutors are looking to investigate lawmakers after the current session of parliament ends on Wednesday, local media reported.
Kyodo news agency on Saturday said there was a plan to reshuffle the cabinet and appoint new party officials.
The Asahi newspaper and other media said Matsuno is suspected of having failed to declare more than 10 million yen he received in the past five years from the biggest faction in the LDP.
Public support for Kishida’s government has slid to a record low partly due to voter worries over rising costs and looming tax hikes.
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The national security advisers of the United States, South Korea and Japan met in Seoul on Saturday as Pyongyang warned that it would deploy more spy satellites.
Sullivan said the meeting followed up on commitments set forth at the Camp David trilateral summit hosted by U.S. President Joe Biden in August, where leaders of the three allies pledged to deepen security and economic cooperation.
The allies’ coordinated efforts would also target potential threats of economic coercion, Sullivan said, and they have finalised work on a supply chain early warning system, agreed to at Camp David, in critical minerals and rechargeable batteries.
The Biden administration held the meeting at Camp David with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to project unity in the face of China’s growing power and nuclear threats from North Korea.
North Korean state media said on Saturday that Pyongyang was determined to launch more spy satellites soon, calling space development part of its right to defend itself.
After talks with Sullivan and Japan’s Takeo Akiba, South Korean national security adviser Cho Tae-yong said the three had also exchanged ideas on Ukraine and Middle East issues.
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