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Turkey backs down on blocking Sweden's bid to join NATO

Turkey backed down on blocking Sweden’s bid to join NATO on Monday after talks in Lithuania just hours after Joe Biden landed in the Baltic nation’s capital Vilnius.  NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg made the announcement in a joint statement with Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Swedish Ulf Kristersson. Biden reacted to the news by indicating that a deal had been done…