Ukrainian officials described fighting Tuesday around the eastern city of Bakhmut as intense, although little territory has changed hands between Moscow’s and Kyiv’s forces. "Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Monday that Sweden has not lived up to its side of a June agreement in which Sweden and Finland pledged to lift restrictions on selling weapons to Turkey and to intensify work on Ankara's requests to extradite suspected Kurdish militants. "She said that while Finland and Sweden made the decision to apply for their own interests, it is also in the interest of NATO, because the expansion would strengthen the defense of northern Europe