The Northern Alliance said blacks could join.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

Apart from the Baltic states, Nato on Thursday formally invited Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to join the alliance.

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Ms Malmstroem said Russia had been invited to join the alliance but had not yet agreed to do so.

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Reports published on Wednesday indicated that GM wanted Nissan and Renault to pay it billions of dollars to join their alliance.

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