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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden will host Jordan's King Abdullah II next week, the White House said Friday, as negotiations continue in the Middle East for a ceasefire in Gaza. The meeting will be "private" and will be followed by a readout, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters, without giving a date for the encounter. The meeting comes against the backdrop of talks for a deal to release hostages and secure a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza after nearly seven months of war. The talks, which come after months of efforts by mediators Egypt, Qatar and...
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Following the sensational murder of a Canadian Sikh leader, Canadian police have detained members of a suspected hit squad, according to a media report. The men are believed to have been involved in various roles in the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in June last year in Surrey on Canada's west coast, Canadian public broadcaster CBC reported on Friday, citing investigators. The group, which is said to have been commissioned by the Indian government, is also believed to be linked to three other deaths, including the shooting of an 11-year-old boy in the city of Edmonton. The men were detained o...
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On Wednesday, ten countries celebrated 20 years in the European Union. Poland had found its place "among friends, among allies, in Europe, at home: This is what generations of Poles have fought for," said Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski in a ceremony at the Polish-German border, on the bridge over the Oder river that joins the cities of Słubice and Frankfurt an der Oder. May 1, 2004 was the largest single expansion in the history of the EU. Of the ten countries that joined that day, eight had emerged from behind the Iron Curtain in the wake of the upheavals of 1989: Poland, the Czech...
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On Wednesday, ten countries celebrated 20 years in the European Union. Poland had found its place "among friends, among allies, in Europe, at home: This is what generations of Poles have fought for," said Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski in a ceremony at the Polish-German border, on the bridge over the Oder river that joins the cities of Słubice and Frankfurt an der Oder. May 1, 2004 was the largest single expansion in the history of the EU. Of the ten countries that joined that day, eight had emerged from behind the Iron Curtain in the wake of the upheavals of 1989: Poland, the Czech...
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On Wednesday, ten countries celebrated 20 years in the European Union. Poland had found its place "among friends, among allies, in Europe, at home: This is what generations of Poles have fought for," said Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski in a ceremony at the Polish-German border, on the bridge over the Oder river that joins the cities of Słubice and Frankfurt an der Oder. May 1, 2004 was the largest single expansion in the history of the EU. Of the ten countries that joined that day, eight had emerged from behind the Iron Curtain in the wake of the upheavals of 1989: Poland, the Czech...
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Abidjan (AFP) - The United States is still talking with Niger about the withdrawal of 1,000 American military personnel, and decisions will be announced in the coming weeks, the US Africom commander said on Monday. There were "still discussions ... between the US and Niger, the governing body there in Niger," General Michael Langley told a press conference. "Decisions will be made public in the coming weeks," the Africa Command chief said in the Ivory Coast city of Abidjan. Niger's military junta, which seized power last July, announced in March it was ending a military cooperation agreement ...
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Istanbul (AFP) - A rare meeting between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his US counterpart Joe Biden at the White House has been postponed, a Turkish official said Friday, amid tensions over the Gaza war. The talks, previously scheduled for May 9, would be the first White House meeting between the two leaders, who last met on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Lithuania in July. "The visit planned for May 9 was postponed because of a change in Erdogan's programme," the official told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity. "A new date will be decided" after an exchange between the ...
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By Shaun TANDON Shanghai (AFP) - Le secrétaire d'Etat américain Antony Blinken est arrivé en Chine mercredi pour sa deuxième visite en moins d'un an, avec pour mission d'augmenter la pression sur Pékin concernant différents dossiers, comme son soutien à la Russie, tout en cherchant une plus grande stabilité. Le chef de la diplomatie américaine a commencé son déplacement par Shanghai, a constaté l'AFP. Il doit y assister à un match de basket entre deux équipes comptant des joueurs américains dans leurs rangs. Cette étape, destinée à faire état des liens chaleureux entre Américains et Chinois, e...
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New York (AFP) - Donald Trump met with former Japanese prime minister Taro Aso in New York on Tuesday, part of the Republican's shadow diplomacy as he campaigns to return to the White House in November's elections. Trump welcomed Aso to Trump Tower, one of the real estate magnate's properties in New York, where he is currently on trial accused of falsifying business records to cover up an affair with an adult film star. "He is a highly respected man in Japan and beyond, somebody that I've liked and I've known," Trump said of Aso at the start of their meeting, according to a video posted on so...
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz believes that the war in Ukraine could drag on for several more years; Nobody could say whether this war might not even last five years, for example, Scholz said on Friday evening in the eastern city of Chemnitz. He defended Germany's military support for Ukraine. In addition, diplomacy must be cultivated, he added. Since the beginning of the war, however, Russian President Vladimir Putin had shown no signs of movement, he said. A dictated peace is unacceptable, emphasized Scholz: "He must not be allowed to get away with this." Scholz was a guest on Friday evening...
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