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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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Brussels (Belgium) (AFP) - NATO on Friday agreed to play a bigger role in coordinating weapon deliveries to Ukraine, as part of a Western push to ensure support continues whatever the results of November's US elections. Faced with the looming spectre of a potential return to the White House for Donald Trump, Kyiv's backers are rushing to try to lock in commitments before aid from Washington might dry up. As part of those efforts, G7 leaders in Italy on Thursday agreed a $50-billion loan for Ukraine backed by frozen Russian assets, and US President Joe Biden inked a 10-year security pact with K...
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Savelletri (Italy) (AFP) - Presidents Joe Biden and Volodymyr Zelensky signed a landmark 10-year security deal between Washington and Kyiv on Thursday in what the Ukrainian leader called a historic day in the fight against Russia's invasion. The deal will see the United States provide Ukraine with a range of military aid and training over the next decade, while Zelensky said it would act as a bridge to his country finally winning prized membership of the NATO alliance. Signed shortly after a G7 summit agreed on a separate deal to loan Ukraine $50 billion based on frozen Russian funds, it comes...
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Eight EU states are calling for the freedom of movement of Russian diplomats to be significantly restricted, saying many are involved in propoganda or preparing acts of sabotage, in a letter to the EU's top diplomat on Thursday. Specifically, they want members of Russia's diplomatic missions and their families to only be allowed to stay in the country in which they are working, said the foreign ministers of the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland and Romania in the letter to EU Foreign Affairs Representative Josep Borrell. "This measure will significant...
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Erevan (AFP) - Des milliers d'Arméniens ont organisé jeudi un nouveau rassemblement contre le Premier ministre Nikol Pachinian, au lendemain d'affrontements entre des manifestants antigouvernementaux et la police qui ont fait plus de 100 blessés. Des manifestations ont lieu à Erevan depuis le mois d'avril, lorsque les autorités ont accepté de restituer à l'Azerbaïdjan, son rival, des territoires que l'Arménie contrôlait depuis les années 1990. Environ 4.000 personnes se sont rassemblées devant le bâtiment du Parlement à Erevan pour un rassemblement dirigé par l'archevêque Bagrat Galstanian, a ...
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Lithuania extended a ban on the broadcasting and retransmission of radio and television programmes from Russian and Belarusian broadcasters, without an initial limit to the restriction, after lawmakers agreed on the step on Thursday. The ban applies as long as Russia and its close ally Belarus are considered a danger and threat to the security of the Baltic EU and NATO country in the national security strategy, parliament agreed almost unanimously, in an amendment to a law. Lithuania, which shares borders with Russian exclave Kaliningrad and Belarus, a close ally of Russia, is also home to a m...
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Warsaw (AFP) - When heads of state and senior officials from some 90 countries gather in Switzerland this weekend to discuss Kyiv's proposed plan to end the war in Ukraine, it will be largely due to one person: Volodymyr Zelensky. The former TV comedian won widespread respect and drew comparisons with Winston Churchill when he stayed in Kyiv in February 2022 to lead his country in a David-versus-Goliath battle against the invading Russian army. Two years later with tens of thousands of lives lost despite billions of dollars of Western aid and donated military equipment, the charismatic preside...
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Tour guide Kham Dee gestures towards the deceptively idyllic landscape of Xieng Khouang province in north-eastern Laos and says that everything, from oil lamps, cowbells and cooking pots, is made from bombs. As visitors arrive at Ban Napia, dubbed the "war spoon village," the significance of his words unfolds with striking clarity. Fragments of cluster bombs, rusty rocket launchers, stacks of grenades or artillery fire, even the wing of a military aeroplane lean against the walls of houses. The remains of the weapons are melted down and turned into useful items such as as spoons. The so-called...
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Tour guide Kham Dee gestures towards the deceptively idyllic landscape of Xieng Khouang province in north-eastern Laos and says that everything, from oil lamps, cowbells and cooking pots, is made from bombs. As visitors arrive at Ban Napia, dubbed the "war spoon village," the significance of his words unfolds with striking clarity. Fragments of cluster bombs, rusty rocket launchers, stacks of grenades or artillery fire, even the wing of a military aeroplane lean against the walls of houses. The remains of the weapons are melted down and turned into useful items such as as spoons. The so-called...
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Doha (AFP) - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken vowed Wednesday to work to seal a Gaza ceasefire agreement, saying not all Hamas demands were acceptable but voicing hope gaps could be closed. Consulting with key mediator Qatar on the Hamas response to the plan outlined by US President Joe Biden, Blinken said the Palestinian group could have given a "clear and simple yes" but voiced guarded hope for moving forward. "We believe that some of the requested changes are workable and some are not," Blinken told reporters in Doha. "And so we have to see on an urgent basis over the course of the comi...
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