a big step towards becoming the thirtieth member of nato the government has signed accessing papers and must now wait for them to be ratified by all members of the military alliance the move comes after the resolution of a years long dispute with neighboring greece over macedonia his name in january the parliament in skopje agreed to change its name to north macedonia. the european commission has blocked a plan tie up between german engineering giant siemens and france's alst on the companies were set to merge their rail businesses so they could take on bigger foreign rivals but the e.u. anti-trust office said it would hurt competition and drive up consumer prices. the venezuelan military has tried to block humanitarian aid from entering the country by barricading a bridge a key border crossing with colombia venezuela self-proclaimed president one guy i don't know says hundreds of thousands of venezuelans could die if the aid is not delivered.