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STOCKHOLM — Swedish and Finnish hopes of quickly joining NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) have run into an obstacle in the form of objections by Turkey, which holds veto powers over accession to the military alliance.

The three nations reached an agreement on how to proceed in Madrid last June, but Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has said Sweden, in particular, is not keeping its side of the bargain.

This week, Mr. Erdogan postponed accession talks indefinitely.

Of NATO’s 30 members, only the parliaments of Turkey and Hungary have not yet ratified entry for Sweden and Finland, which are worried about their security after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The House of Representatives failed to elect a speaker for the first time since 1923 — as nearly two dozen Republicans refused to support Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California for the job.

Here are the winners and losers so far from the ongoing debate over the speakership.

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House Democrats embraced the GOP divide Tuesday and Wednesday as leadership advised its members to remain present at all votes to ensure the majority threshold remains a challenge to McCarthy and his allies.

Democratic members cheered as Republican nominations and vote tallies against McCarthy were announced. They chanted in unison for Rep. Hakeem Jeffries as he continued to be announced for nomination and unanimously voted for within the party. Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla., suggested Democrats were drinking on the House floor as votes continued.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) said no amount of fake news could save Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo State and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from defeat in the 2023 general elections.

APC’s Publicity Secretary, Olawale Sadare, said in a statement on Tuesday in Ibadan, that PDP was allegedly behind the spread of fake news purportedly issued by one Alhaji Bashir Adeola, a Chieftain of APC in the state.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that APC was reacting to a news report which claimed that Adeola spoke in condemnation of his party to favour PDP.

The APC spokesperson dismissed the said news as fake, saying that the name, Bashir Adeola, was a fictitious name.

According to him, the report was the handiwork of some desperados in power who had been overwhelmed by the political fireworks of Oyo APC as demonstrated in the last few months.

Subsequent 12 months may very well be even greater for Natasha Jonas.

The Liverpudlian beat Marie-Eve Dicaire in Manchester on Saturday evening so as to add the IBF tremendous welterweight championship to the WBO and WBC titles she had already unified this 12 months.

Jonas shocked Dicaire along with her velocity and energy, however the Canadian nonetheless used her dimension and energy successfully as she turned their championship match right into a 10-round battle, one which Jonas gained unanimously.

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Natasha Jonas says she’s going to stroll away and evaluate her choices for her subsequent struggle after profitable by unanimous resolution to develop into IBF, WBC and WBO World Champion

It is arduous to discover a extra Labor-dominated a part of the nation than the London headquarters of Islington North. However when Labor members are requested which candidate they may help within the subsequent election, there may be nervousness, hesitation and hushed tones.

Jeremy Corbyn, an area MP within the seat for 39 years, is presently an impartial MP who has been stripped of the Labor Social gathering stick. He retains appreciable native help, however ought to he determine to face as an impartial candidate within the subsequent election, each Labor member within the seat will probably be confronted with a alternative – to marketing campaign for the celebration’s candidate or for Corbyn and threat expulsion .

By John Alechenu

ABUJA-THE All Progressives Congress, APC, and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Presidential Campaign Councils, PCCs, were at each other’s jugular yesterday, over the $460,000 deducted from the accounts of the APC Presidential flagbearer, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in the United States of America, U.S.

The Chief Spokesman of the Tinubu-Shettima Presidential Campaign Council, Mr. Festus Keyamo said that the $460,000 was tax deducted from one of the 10 accounts linked to Tinubu and pooh-poohed the documents he attributed to the PDP, which are circulating in the social media, which accused Tinubu of drug deals while he lived in the US.

However, the PDP insisted that Tinubu has a lot of explanations to do and dismissed what it described as Keyamo’s “spirited attempts” to deflect attention from his principal’s questionable past.

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According to a chargesheet filed by the federal anti-money laundering agency in a special court here, Yes Bank co-founder Rana Kapoor told the Enforcement Directorate (ED) that he was “forced” to buy a M F Husain painting from Congress’s Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, and that the sale proceeds were used by the Gandhi family for Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s medical treatment in New York.

Mr Kapoor also told the ED that the then-petroleum minister, Murli Deora, told him that refusing to buy the M F Husain painting would prevent him from not only building a relationship with the Gandhi family, but also from receiving the ‘Padma Bhushan’ award.

Rana Kapoor’s statements are included in the second supplementary chargesheet (overall third) filed in the special court here recently in a money laundering case against the Yes Bank co-founder, his family, Dewan Housing Finance Limited (DHFL) promoters Kapil and Dheeraj Wadhawan, and others.