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Pro-Russia leader in NATO’s Bulgaria takes oath before Trump

  Bloomberg A day before US President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, another pro-Russian president was sworn in far to the east, in NATO member Bulgaria, as questions arise over the future of the alliance amid rising animosity with its Cold-War adversary. Rumen Radev, a 53-year-old, US-trained general, took an oath of office on Thursday in Sofia after defeating the ruling party’s ...

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Greek president: Turkish troops, guarantees ‘unacceptable’

  NICOSIA / AP Greece’s president says an insistence by Turkey and Turkish Cypriots on keeping troops and military intervention rights on Cyprus even after the ethnically split island is reunified is “anachronistic” and unacceptable.” President Procopis Pavlopoulos says such positions are contrary to European Union norms and would create “dangerous precedents” if implemented. He said after talks with Cypriot President ...

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Kosovo asks EU, US and others to denounce Serbia provocation

  PRISTINA / AP Kosovo’s foreign minister has written to his counterparts in the European Union, US and other countries denouncing “numerous acts of provocation and aggression” from Serbia, an official said on Thursday. The minister, Enver Hoxhaj, called on the EU, which facilitates Pristina-Belgrade talks to normalize ties, “to urge Serbia to remain committed to good neighborly relations,” according to ...

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