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Washington (AFP) - Israel and the United States said Wednesday they had made progress toward resolving a rift over US weapons shipments after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly accused President Joe Biden's administration of slowing down deliveries. Defense Minister Yoav Gallant met top officials over three days in Washington as he voiced hope for quietly working through disagreements with Israel's vital ally, drawing an implicit contrast to Netanyahu's more confrontational approach. "During the meetings we made significant progress, obstacles were removed and bottlenecks were addresse...
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Washington (AFP) - The United States is pressing Israel to avoid a major war against Lebanon's Hezbollah, with top American officials urging a diplomatic solution in order to prevent another Middle East crisis. Israeli forces and Iran-backed Hezbollah are exchanging fire on a near-daily basis, and the Israeli army said last week that plans for an offensive in Lebanon were "approved and validated." Washington is working to lower the temperature, but those efforts -- which come on top of disagreements between the administrations of US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netan...
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Washington (AFP) - US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin met his Israeli counterpart Yoav Gallant at the Pentagon on Tuesday, warning that a conflict between Israel and Hezbollah could spark a regional war and urging a diplomatic solution. More than eight months of war in Gaza has heightened tensions across the region, with Israeli forces and Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah exchanging fire on a near-daily basis. "Another war between Israel and Hezbollah could easily become a regional war, with terrible consequences for the Middle East," Austin said. "Diplomacy is by far the best way to prevent mor...
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Gaza Strip (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that "intense" fighting against Hamas militants in the southern Gaza city of Rafah is nearly over, more than eight months into the devastating war. "The intense phase of the fighting against Hamas is about to end," Netanyahu told Israel's Channel 14 network, without providing a clear timeline. "It doesn't mean that the war is about to end, but the war in its intense phase is about to end in Rafah." Israeli officials have described Rafah as the last Hamas stronghold in the Gaza Strip, and in earl...
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By W.G. DUNLOP Washington (AFP) - La jetée construite en mai à Gaza par les Etats-Unis avait pour but affiché de faciliter l'acheminement d'aide humanitaire dans ce territoire palestinien assiégé par Israël. Mais depuis son installation il y a un mois, celle-ci va de déboire en déboire. Plus de 4.100 tonnes d'aide ont été acheminées jusque-là dans la bande de Gaza via cette jetée qui a coûté 230 millions de dollars, loin de "l'augmentation massive" de livraisons promise par Joe Biden. Premier soutien militaire d'Israël, Washington a installé cette jetée face aux sévères restrictions imposées p...
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Washington (AFP) - New tensions emerged this week between President Joe Biden's administration and Benjamin Netanyahu over the Israeli premier's criticism of US weapons deliveries -- comments the White House described Thursday as "vexing" and "disappointing." The issue began when Netanyahu claimed in a video posted on social media earlier this week that the US administration -- Israel's main military backer -- has been "withholding weapons and ammunitions" from his country in recent months. "Those comments were deeply disappointing and certainly vexing to us, given the amount of support that w...
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By Alexis HONTANG, Damon WAKE Hanoï (AFP) - Vladimir Poutine a débuté jeudi une visite d'Etat au Vietnam, auquel la Russie fournit des armes depuis des décennies, au lendemain de la signature d'un accord de défense avec la Corée du Nord qui inquiète les Occidentaux. Le président russe a remercié Hanoï pour son approche "équilibrée" sur l'Ukraine, dans une tribune publiée dans le journal du Parti communiste vietnamien (PCV) au pouvoir. La Russie et le Vietnam partagent aussi une lecture "similaire" de la situation en Asie-Pacifique, a-t-il soutenu. Le chef du Kremlin a rencontré vers midi (05H0...
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A former Colombian general has been sentenced to 31 years in prison almost four decades after a deadly operation to free hostages from the country's Justice Palace which was occupied by guerilla forces, local media reported on Wednesday. Members of the now extinct Marxist guerrilla movement M-19 occupied the seat of Colombia's Supreme Court on November 6, 1985, in what became known as the Palace of Justice siege. They held the Supreme Court justices as well as dozens of other people hostage. When the military stormed the building a day later, 98 people, including Supreme Court justices, were k...
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Washington (AFP) - NATO's chief called Monday for China to face consequences if it keeps up support to Russia as he trumpeted a sharp increase in allies' defense spending since the invasion of Ukraine. Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said that Kyiv needed predictable and steady military funding as he hailed the uptick in NATO member defense budgets -- addressing a key factor behind Donald Trump's skepticism about helping Ukraine. NATO next month celebrates its 75th anniversary with a summit in Washington that aims to send a decisive long-term message of support for Ukraine ahead of Preside...
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Moscow (AFP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday demanded Ukraine effectively surrender to Moscow if it wants to open peace talks, drawing anger and rebukes from Kyiv and the West. In a combative speech in Moscow on the eve of a major Ukraine peace summit in Switzerland, Putin said Russia would halt its offensive only if Ukraine fully withdraws its troops from the east and south and drops its bid for NATO membership. The countries have been locked in bloody conflict for more than two years, and no direct peace talks have been held since the first weeks of Russia's campaign, when it wa...
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