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The Ukraine peace summit planned next month in Switzerland is a bid to impose conditions on Russia to end the conflict, President Vladimir Putin said on Friday at the close of his two-day trip to China. He said he had spoken with China's President Xi Jinping about the operations in Ukraine. Putin has consistently upheld his decision to attack Russia's neighbour in 2022 despite the heavy costs for both countries. Speaking in Harbin, Putin gave no further details of the conversation with Xi, whose country has not joined international condemnation of Russia's war. Ukraine and the West hope that C...
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The European Union on Tuesday gave the final green light to a landmark overhaul of its migration and asylum policies that will see hardened borders and responsibility shared among member states. EU officials had been at pains to wrap up the migration reforms - the product of years of debate - ahead of European Parliament elections scheduled for June. The issue has been politically divisive, especially since an influx of arrivals in 2015 that exposed the migration system's weaknesses. WHAT WAS AGREED? The overhaul consists of ten pieces of legislation supported by the vast majority of EU member...
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More than 50 countries have confirmed their participation in the Ukraine peace conference in Switzerland, with a month to go before its scheduled start. However, one particularly important country has not yet said it will attend. "China has not yet signed up," admitted Swiss President Viola Amherd on Wednesday after a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin. "We assume that there will be changes to the list of participants right up to the last minute." Switzerland has invited around 160 countries for June 15 and 16 to discuss possible ways to achieve lasting peace in Ukraine. Russ...
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The United Arab Emirates (UAE) lashed out on Saturday at a suggestion from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to join a potential civil administration in the post-war Gaza Strip. Netanyahu suggested in a recent interview that a civilian administration with Gazans and possibly with the aid of the UAE, Saudi Arabia and other countries could run Gaza after the war. On Saturday, UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed said his country denounces Netanyahu's call, adding that Gaza is currently under Israeli occupation. "The State of Emirates stresses that the Israeli prime minister has no leg...
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France accused Iran of arbitrarily detaining several French citizens and holding them hostage and demanded their release, in a statement on Tuesday. The French Foreign Ministry demanded the immediate and unconditional release of two French tourists detained in Iran two years ago on espionage charges. They have been held there ever since. Paris also called for the release of two other French citizens detained by Tehran. "France condemns this state hostage policy and the constant blackmail by the Iranian authorities," the French ministry said. "France condemns the Islamic Republic's abhorrent pr...
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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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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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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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After more than two years of intense fighting in Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday reasserted Moscow's claimed right to rule over its neighbour. At most, the future of western Ukraine is unclear, Lavrov told several Russian broadcasters in an interview in Moscow. Otherwise, there will only be a Ukraine "that is truly Russian, that wants to be part of the Russian world, that wants to speak Russian and educate its children," he said. There was no question of any alternative, according to Lavrov, 74, who has served as foreign minister since 2004 and is a staunch supporter ...
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