News in Brief
Türkiye’s opposition to announce election candidate
REUTERS – Türkiye’s six-party opposition alliance said it would announce its joint candidate next week to challenge President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the May presidential election.
The alliance said it would announce its candidate on Monday, although there are signs of discord about the choice and other issues in the nationalist IYI Party, the second largest party in the alliance.
The opposition has failed in previous national votes to pose a serious challenge to Erdogan, who has been in power for two decades.
Hungary delays vote on Sweden, Finland joining NATO
AP – Hungary further delayed a vote on ratifying Sweden and Finland’s NATO accession bids, according to an updated schedule published Thursday on the National Assembly’s website, the latest in a series of postponements that have frustrated Western allies.
Hungary remains the only NATO member country besides Türkiye that hasn’t yet approved the two Nordic countries’ bids to join the Western military alliance.
Hungary’s Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, alleges that the governments in Stockholm and Helsinki have “spread blatant lies” about Hungary.
Argentina asks UK to resume negotiations over Falklands
REUTERS – The Argentinian government has again asked the United Kingdom to restart negotiations over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands, the Argentinian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
The request to resume talks is the latest chapter in Argentina’s long-held claim over the British-run islands, which included the 1982 war. The islands are located in the South Atlantic about 600 kilometres from the Argentinian mainland.