Finland, Sweden to join NATO
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, center, shakes hands with Finland’s President Sauli Niinisto, right, during a round table meeting at a NATO summit in Madrid, Spain on June 29, 2022.
Wednesday at the NATO summit, US President Joe Biden announced a plan for new US military deployments to Europe including creating a new permanent US military headquarters in Poland. NATO also formally invited Finland and Sweden to join the alliance. Turkey was threatening to veto their membership aspirations on grounds the countries were supporting terrorists. Now, the memorandum says they will be fighting terrorism together. Plus, scientists are raising alarm bells once more about bird flu. Tens of millions of birds have been culled and hundreds of thousands have died from the H5N1 strain.
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