Bloomberg Finland announced it will apply to join Nato, and Sweden is likely to follow. Turkey doesn’t plan to block the Nordic countries’ membership bids, Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg said after meetings in Berlin. The military alliance in June is expected to highlight Russian behavior as a direct threat in an updated strategic document. The UK defense ministry estimated that ...

Bloomberg North Korean leader Kim Jong-un called the growing outbreak of a fever “the big upheaval since the nation’s founding” as state media reported more new cases. There were about 296,000 cases of fever with 15 deaths, the Korean Central News Agency said, adding to the more than 170,000 cases reported the previous day. The total death toll stands at ...

Bloomberg German Chancellor Olaf Scholz faces another tricky electoral test, with polls suggesting his Social Democratic Party (SPD) could suffer a second setback in a week in a regional ballot. Some 13.2 million people are eligible to vote in Germany’s most populous state of North Rhine-Westphalia, a heavily industrialised western region that was once an SPD stronghold but has been ...