Bloomberg Finnish President Sauli Niinisto phoned Russian President Vladimir Putin to say the Nordic country plans to seek Nato membership in the near term. The conversation with Putin “was direct and straight-forward and it was conducted without aggravations,” he said in a statement. The move would be a “mistake because there are no threats to Finland’s security,” Putin told his ...

Bloomberg Foreign ministers of the Group of Seven (G-7) industrialised nations blamed North Korea’s push for weapons of mass destruction for the humanitarian situation in the country, as state media reported more than 170,000 new cases in a worsening fever outbreak. In a joint statement following a meeting in northern Germany, the G-7 ministers expressed their grave concern about the ...

Bloomberg A summit with Southeast Asian leaders organised and hosted by President Joe Biden concluded at the White House with a group statement that omitted any condemnation of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The nations participating in the summit, called the Association of Southeast Asian Nations or Asean, issued a statement calling for the “immediate cessation of hostilities” in Ukraine. The ...