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Joe Biden, Rishi Sunak, Olaf Scholz, and Justin Trudeau gathering for Nato summit in Lithuania’s capital Vilnius

The Prime Minister will undertake a number of meetings with world leaders during the Nato summit in Vilnius, Lithuania.

France offers longer-range missiles to Kyiv as Nato summit gets underway in Vilnius; Stoltenberg cautions Russia over its nuclear rhetoric

Prime minister does not give any timescale for its membership as he flies to Vilnius for two-day summit

Nato leaders are meeting to discuss how to tackle security threats from Moscow

When long-neutral Sweden applied for NATO membership together with Finland, both expected a quick accession process

In today’s newsletter: World leaders descend on Vilnius, Lithuania this week for Nato’s annual summit – but what’s on the agenda?

As NATO members, in a rare sign disunity, disagree over the United States' decision to supply cluster bombs to Ukraine, the military alliance is expected to drop a major hurdle to Kyiv's bid for membership at a meeting in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told a press conference in Vilnius Tuesday that the Alliance will extend an invitation to Ukraine to join when "members agree and conditions are met". The lack of a timetable for Ukraine's membership pathway angered Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who before arriving in Vilnius earlier…

As part of the deal, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he would ask Turkey’s parliament to approve Sweden joining NATO as Western leaders try to demonstrate unity in the face of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

It could be a contentious summit in Vilnius.