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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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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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