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Anti-Erdogan alliance nears collapse over leadership spat

BLOOMBERG Turkey’s opposition is in crisis over a failure to agree on a joint candidate to contest President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, hampering a rare chance to unseat the country’s longest-serving leader at elections in less than three months. The infighting burst into the open on Friday when the opposition bloc’s second largest party Iyi slammed the rest of the group ...

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Abramovich’s ally takes on UK in sanctions challenge

BLOOMBERG A billionaire and “close” partner of oligarch Roman Abramovich has become the first person to challenge the UK’s Russian sanctions regime in a London court. Lawyers for Eugene Shvidler, who has long been associated with Abramovich, filed the claim last month, saying that the UK made “significant errors” in its assessment of Shvidler’s relationship with the former owner of ...

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Germany asks Switzerland to sell back some Leopard 2 tanks

BLOOMBERG Germany has asked Switzerland if it can buy back some of the nation’s decommissioned Leopard 2 battle tanks as part of an effort to replace depleted stocks among Nato allies. German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius and Economy Minister Robert Habeck made the request in a February 23 letter to Swiss Defense Minister Viola Amherd, a German defense ministry spokesman ...

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