BLOOMBERG US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan urged Turkey to ratify the membership bids of Sweden and Finland into Nato as pressure builds on two remaining holdouts to approve the expansion of the military alliance. Officials from Turkey, Sweden and Finland have been trying to break an impasse that has held up the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation’s expansion since the ...

BLOOMBERG The leaders of the US, the UK and Australia unveiled an ambitious multibillion-dollar plan for a new fleet of nuclear-powered submarines that will ply the Pacific in an effort to blunt China’s growing assertiveness in the South China Sea and around Taiwan. “Forging this partnership, we’re showing again how democracies can deliver our own security and prosperity, and not ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Emergency, Crisis and Disasters Prosecution on Tuesday announced a 50 percent discount on penalties imposed for violating Covid-19 precautionary measures. Effective as of March 15, the decision – which will last for two months – includes all the unpaid violations committed during the pandemic. The Emergency Prosecution called for benefiting from the reduction decision and ...