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Washington (AFP) - Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday announced the United States will provide key air defense munitions and artillery rounds to Ukraine as part of a $6 billion military aid package that is its largest ever for Kyiv. The package is the second this week, following another valued at $1 billion that was announced just after US President Joe Biden signed a much-delayed bill to provide new funding for Ukraine as it struggles to hold back Russian advances. "This is the largest security assistance package that we've committed to date," Austin told journalists following the concl...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Israel's war against Hamas has sparked anger and division around the world, including on US campuses, where some Jewish students feel targeted and abused while others have taken leading roles in pro-Palestinian demonstrations. "A lot of people feel really unsafe," says Eli Sanchez, a Jewish 20-year-old economics major at the University of California, Los Angeles, as pro-Palestinian protests upend college life. "We've seen a lot of hateful rhetoric, anti-Semitic rhetoric. They’ve crossed that thin line very often," he told AFP. "It's not freedom of speech, it's freedom to ye...
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New York (AFP) - Columbia University backed off late Thursday from an overnight deadline for pro-Palestinian protesters to abandon an encampment there as more college campuses in the United States sought to prevent occupations from taking hold. Police have carried out large-scale arrests in universities across the country, at times using chemical irritants and tasers to disperse protests over Israel's war with Hamas. The office of New York-based Columbia University president Minouche Shafik issued a statement at 11:07 pm (0307 GMT Friday) retreating from a midnight deadline to dismantle a larg...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Pro-Palestinian protests spread to more college campuses in the United States on Thursday as authorities appeared to be running out of patience and police began to push back forcefully. Riot officers used chemical irritants and tasers at one university as administrators at some of the country's most prestigious institutions battled to prevent occupations taking hold. Staging sit-ins and mounting boisterous demonstrations, the activists are calling for a ceasefire in Israel's war with Hamas, as well as for colleges to sever ties with the country and with companies they say p...
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New York (AFP) - Donald Trump on Thursday condemned pro-Palestinian protests sweeping US colleges, saying the level of "hate" on display was far worse than during an infamous, deadly rally by right-wing extremists in Charlottesville in 2017. "We're having protests all over," Trump told reporters as he left the Manhattan courtroom where he is standing trial on charges of falsifying business records. "Charlottesville was a little peanut, and it was nothing compared -- and the hate wasn't the kind of hate that you have here, this is tremendous hate," he said. The "Unite the Right" rally in Charlo...
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Dubai (AFP) - US-led coalition forces shot down four drones and an anti-ship missile launched by Yemen's Huthi rebels, American authorities said Thursday, as the Iran-backed group announced strikes against US and Israeli ships. A Greek vessel deployed in the Gulf of Aden as part of an EU naval coalition also shot down a drone off Yemen's coast early on Thursday, the Greece general staff said in a statement. The incidents follow a lull in attacks by the Huthis, who launched dozens of missile and drone strikes targeting shipping since November, saying they were acting in solidarity with Palestin...
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Washington (AFP) - The United States is the first to acknowledge that its long-awaited $61 billion aid package for Ukraine is not a "silver bullet." As weapons and ammunition are rushed to the country, other issues such as manpower shortages in Kyiv's struggling military have come to the fore. Meanwhile, the monthslong delay in passing the aid package -- caused by wrangling among US lawmakers -- has further weakened Ukraine's position on the battleground, according to analysts. President Joe Biden, who quickly signed the law Wednesday after it passed Congress, said the bill "should have gotte...
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Austin (AFP) - Spiraling pro-Palestinian protests that are rocking universities across the United States spread to more campuses Wednesday, triggering suggestions from a senior Republican leader that the National Guard could be brought in. The comments from House Speaker Mike Johnson are likely to evoke strong emotions in a country where the 1970 killing by National Guardsmen of unarmed students protesting the Vietnam war lives on in folk memory. Demonstrations erupted at the University of Southern California on Wednesday, and in Texas, where a tense stand-off developed between students and po...
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Washington (AFP) - The United States on Wednesday rushed to send ammunition, weapons and other war supplies to Ukraine, after President Joe Biden signed a much-delayed bill to support the country as it struggles to hold back Russian advances. The final approval of the legislation -- which includes $61 billion for Kyiv out of a total of $95 billion in funding -- comes after months of political wrangling as Ukrainian forces ran short of ammunition and suffered battlefield setbacks. "I just signed into law the national security package that was passed by the House of Representatives this weekend,...
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New York (AFP) - Yazen has slept on Columbia University's south lawn almost every night for more than a week now, one of several dozen students living at the prestigious school's "Gaza Solidarity Encampment." The 23-year-old Palestinian-American has been splitting his days between his medical studies at Columbia's historic Butler Library, adjacent to the smooth green lawn, and the upkeep of the colorful tents on the school's main campus, in the heart of New York City. Since last Monday, dozens of students and alumni have come together to express solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, where Isr...
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