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United Nations (United States) (AFP) - The United States on Thursday spoiled a long-shot Palestinian bid for full United Nations membership, vetoing a Security Council measure despite growing international distress over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. The move by Israel's key ally had been expected ahead of the vote, taking place more than six months into Israel's military offensive in the besieged Palestinian territory, in retaliation for the deadly October 7 attack by Hamas militants on southern Israel. Twelve countries voted in favor of the draft resolution recommending full Palestinian me...
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Washington (AFP) - Receiving dignitaries at his Florida estate and courting leaders shunned elsewhere as autocratic, Donald Trump is increasingly leading a shadow diplomacy diametrically opposed to US President Joe Biden. The Republican mogul, in the unusual role of a former president running again for the top job, has turned to trusted faces both at home and abroad and sought to scuttle some of Biden's top foreign policy priorities. Trump's supporters have for months held up billions of dollars in military aid to Ukraine, which the president has vowed to defend, and Trump has insisted that B...
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On 5 April, European Commission executive vice-president Valdis Dombrovskis and Uzbekistan's Minister of investment, industry and trade Laziz Kudratov launched a strategic partnership on critical raw materials. This was only the latest such deal, part of a concerted diplomatic and political effort by the von der Leyen commission to secure access to a range of elements from copper, lithium and cobalt to rare earth metals like neodymium. All of these, and more, are essential for the clean energy transition. For three years now, the European Commission has been quietly signing memoranda of unders...
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United Nations (United States) (AFP) - The United Nations Security Council will vote Thursday on the Palestinians' application to become a full UN member state, several diplomatic sources have told AFP. Amid Israel's military offensive in Gaza, the Palestinians in early April revived a membership application first made to the world body in 2011, though the veto-wielding United States has repeatedly expressed opposition to the proposal. The General Assembly can admit a new member state with a two-thirds majority vote, but only after the Security Council gives its recommendation. Regional bloc t...
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Russia has reacted cautiously to a latest initiative from French President Emmanuel Macron calling for an Olympic Truce during this summer's Paris Games and Paralympics. Kremlin spokesman Dmitiri Peskov was quoted by state news agency Interfax as saying that Moscow has so far not received an according request in connection with their invasion of Ukraine. He said that President Vladimir Putin has been confronted with similar questions in the past but that is was difficult to support such initiatives "because the regime in Kiev normally uses such ideas and initiatives for attempts to regroup and...
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Seoul (AFP) - The US ambassador to the United Nations visited the heavily-fortified border between North and South Korea Tuesday, urging Pyongyang to return to talks as global enforcement of UN sanctions stumbles. Linda Thomas-Greenfield arrived in South Korea on Sunday on a trip aimed at keeping up pressure on the nuclear-armed North after Russia last month used its UN veto to effectively end UN monitoring of violations of the raft of sanctions on Kim Jong Un's regime. Experts have said the shift was a significant victory for Kim, who has recently ramped up ties with Moscow including, Washing...
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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden and Iraq's Prime Minister Mohamed Shia al-Sudani said Monday they would keep working towards the withdrawal of a US-led anti-jihadist coalition in the country. Their meeting at the White House came amid soaring tensions in the Middle East after Iraq's neighbor Iran launched a massive aerial attack on US ally Israel over the weekend. The US-led military coalition was formed in 2014 to fight the Islamic State group -- the year the jihadists overran nearly a third of Iraq's territory and swaths of neighboring Syria. Iraq has been trying to stay out of reg...
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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden said Monday he wants to prevent the Middle East conflict from spreading but vowed to defend Israel after Iran launched an unprecedented aerial attack on the key US ally. Biden also reiterated his desire for a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas following the October 7 attacks. "Iran launched an unprecedented aerial attack against Israel, and we launched an unprecedented military effort to defend it. Together with our partners, we defended that attack," Biden said as he met Iraq's prime minister at the White House. "The United States is commi...
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Baiba Braze has been nominated as Latvian foreign minister after Krisjanis Karins resigned in late March following a scandal over the use of charter flights, Prime Minister Evika Silina announced in Riga on Monday. Braze had many years of experience in diplomacy and international relations, Silina said. The Latvian parliament has still to approve the appointment, with a vote likely on Thursday. Braze currently serves as ambassador for special assignments in the Foreign Ministry. She previously had posts as ambassador to The Netherlands and to Britain, and as NATO assistant secretary general fo...
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Washington (AFP) - Iran's unprecedented attack on Israel with hundreds of drones and missiles marked the culmination of a tense two weeks in which Washington engaged in whirlwind efforts to prepare for the expected violence. American aircraft and planes downed dozens of drones and missiles when Iran launched the attack on Saturday, after Tehran repeatedly threatened to hit back in response to an Israeli strike on its consulate in Damascus that killed two top officers at the beginning of the month. Senior US officials detailed the role Washington played -- both militarily and diplomatically -- ...
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