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The Latest Breaking News from NATO

Istanbul talks highlight Turkiye’s balancing act between Russia and Ukraine

Since the outbreak of the war, Turkiye has weighed its support for Ukraine against maintaining its ties to Russia.

Al Jazeera

New chancellor, old constraints: Germany’s Friedrich Merz will have a hard time freeing the country from its self-imposed shackles

Friedrich Merz received a rude shock on the morning of May 6, 2025, as he prepared to lose the “in-waiting” qualifier from his title as German chancellor.

The Conversation

Ukraine open to 'all reasonable steps' to peace as Istanbul talks with Russia kick off

Ukraine and Russia meet in Istanbul for ceasefire talks, with Zelenskyy urging Putin to engage directly. Kyiv's top priority is a 30-day ceasefire and peace efforts.

Euronews

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Ukraine war briefing: Putin stays home and fires a general instead of peace talks

Gen. Oleg Salyukov is the latest high-ranking military figure to be dismissed; Germany’s Merz says EU sanctions on Russia ready for Tuesday. What we know on day 1,178

The Guardian - AU

George Simion seeks diaspora support in final days of Romanian presidential race

Ahead of Sunday's election, Romanian hard-right presidential candidate George Simion campaigns abroad, targeting the Romanian diaspora vote. Euronews spoke to him at the European Parliament in Brussels.

Euronews

Brussels looking to beef up the EU's collective defence clause

Article 42.7 of the EU Treaties was triggered once following the terrorist attack in Paris on November 13, 2015, but is generally seen as weaker than the collective defence clause in NATO.

Euronews

NATO On Track To Strike Spending Deal To Please Trump

NATO appears headed for a compromise deal at a summit next month to satisfy US President Donald Trump's demand to spend five percent of GDP on defence, as heavyweights Germany and France got on board Thursday.

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Russia may use military force to protect shadow fleet, Estonia warns

Moscow is using ageing vessels in an effort to dodge international sanctions on its oil exports.

Euronews

Nato ally casts serious doubt Starmer’s ‘coalition of the willing’ for Ukraine

Zoltán Kovács, a senior Hungarian minister, said that his country – seen as being close to Russia – would play no part in EU efforts to support Ukraine

The Independent UK

'Paradigm Shift': Germany Says To Meet Trump's NATO Spending Target

Germany under new Chancellor Friedrich Merz surprised NATO allies on Thursday by signalling plans to massively boost defence spending to five percent of GDP as demanded by US President Donald Trump.

International Business Times

Germany to comply with Trump's 5% defence spending target, foreign minister suggests

US President Donald Trump has long demanded that NATO partners spend more on defence. Germany now wants to comply.

Euronews

PM accuses Putin of ‘dragging feet’ in peace talks over no-show for Zelensky

The Prime Minister accused Moscow’s leader of ‘standing in the way’ of a truce after his no-show in Turkey.

Evening Standard

Estonia warns Russia may use military force to defend its shadow fleet of tankers dodging sanctions

Estonia is warning that Russia appears willing to defend with military force its shadow fleet of aging tankers dodging international sanctions to keep oil revenue flowing

The Independent UK

Latvia warns public that ‘unkempt tourists’ might actually be Russian spies

It comes as NATO members Sweden and Finland have issued booklets with advice on how to survive a war

The Independent UK

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Al Jazeera

Russia grabs a bit more of Ukraine as it heads into peace talks

On eve of Istanbul talks, Moscow ignored a call for a 30-day ceasefire and showed signs of preparing for new offensives.

Al Jazeera

Romania braces for heated presidential vote after controversial annulment

Al Jazeera interviews the two candidates who will battle it out on Sunday after a controversial annulment.

The Independent UK

NATO's procurement agency under investigation for alleged corruption linked to military contracts

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte says the organization’s procurement agency is cooperating with police investigating corruption and fraud allegations involving the purchase of military equipment

The Independent UK

NATO weighs a US demand to massively hike defense spending as some struggle to meet the current goal

NATO foreign ministers are debating a U.S. demand to massively ramp up defense investment to 5% of gross domestic product over the next 7 years

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Russian Delegation, Without Putin, Arrives In Istanbul For Ukraine Talks

Putin was not included on a list of Moscow's negotiating team published by the Kremlin late Wednesday, after Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky challenged him to turn up in person to the talks.

Evening Standard

Lammy: Russia sending ‘low-level’ officials to Ukraine talks as Putin stays away

Foreign Secretary David Lammy said Nato allies would ‘stand by Ukraine’.

The Guardian - AU

Ukraine war: US secretary of state says ‘abundantly clear’ Trump and Putin needed for peace talks ‘breakthrough’ – as it happened

Marco Rubio says US president may need to ‘directly engage’ to determine ‘once and for all what it is the Russian side wants and whether peace is possible’

The Guardian - UK

Romania might be about to make a Trump-admiring former football hooligan its president. This is why

The election of George Simion would be a troubling – but understandable – repudiation of the country’s pro-EU establishment, says Andrei Popoviciu, a Romanian investigative journalist

Radio France Internationale

First direct peace talks between Moscow, Kyiv since 2022 to begin in Turkey

A Russian delegation landed in Istanbul on Thursday for the first direct peace talks with Ukraine in more than three years, Russian state media reported, but without President Vladimir Putin as many world leaders had urged.

Euronews

Friedrich Merz makes big promises from Ukraine to economy in first government statement to Bundestag

The new German chancellor has pledged to recover Berlin from years of economic stagnation, deliver on “much needed” military development and fulfil NATO defence spending targets.

The Guardian - AU

Ukraine war briefing: Force Putin’s hand, Nato leaders told in Turkey, as he snubs peace talks

Lower-level Ukrainian delegations to negotiate after Russian president shies from Zelenskyy’s challenge to meet; Sumy attack kills three. What we know on day 1,177

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