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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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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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Washington (AFP) - The spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are due to open Tuesday, with two clear objectives: help countries combat climate change, and assist the most indebted nations. The meetings -- which bring central bankers together with finance and development ministers, academics, and representatives from the private sector and civil society to discuss the state of the global economy -- will kick off with the IMF's publication of its updated World Economic Outlook. Even as they look ahead, the meetings will have an air of nostalgia this year, as 2024 ...
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Washington (AFP) - The United States has approved the sale of tens of millions of dollars in military equipment to aid Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza, and the close defense ties between the countries date back decades. But the civilian death toll from nearly six months of Israeli bombardment and ground operations in Gaza is rising and the humanitarian situation is catastrophic, piling pressure on President Joe Biden to impose conditions on military aid. Below, AFP examines recent arms shipments to Israel as well as the history of military assistance from Washington to its closest ally in t...
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Gaza City (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - A United States charity said on Friday it was unloading the first shipment of food aid sent via a maritime corridor from Cyprus to war-ravaged Gaza. "World Central Kitchen is unloading the barge connected now to the jetty," said Linda Roth, a spokesperson for the group. The Israeli military confirmed that the vessel, the Open Arms, had arrived in Gazan waters and said Israeli troops had "been deployed to secure the area". "The vessel underwent a comprehensive security inspection," the military said. "The ship contained 130 pallets of humanitarian equ...
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Gaza City (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - The first aid vessel heading to the besieged Gaza Strip via a new maritime corridor was visible Friday off the coast of the war-ravaged territory, an AFP journalist said. Images shot by the journalist showed the Open Arms towing a barge which the Spanish charity operating it says is carrying 200 tonnes of food for Gazans threatened with famine after more than five months of war. Ship-tracking websites showed the Open Arms roughly five kilometres (three miles) off the coast of northern Gaza. A handful of civilians gathered on the rubble-strewn coast o...
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Aboard a US military aircraft (AFP) - From the hatch of a US aircraft, the destruction wrought by months of war on the Gaza Strip stretched out below in grey piles of debris along the turquoise waters of the Mediterranean. The transport plane rumbled above the besieged territory, as airmen from the 26th Expeditionary Rescue Squadron readied pallets of desperately needed food aid destined for Palestinians in northern Gaza. But the three tonnes of humanitarian assistance provided by Jordan is just a "drop in the bucket" of what is needed, said co-pilot Lieutenant Colonel Jeremy Anderson. "There ...
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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden announced on Tuesday a $300 million emergency weapons package to prop up Ukraine while Congress blocks further aid, as Poland's leaders visited the White House to warn of the growing threat from Russia. Biden said the stopgap shipment of missiles, shells and ammunition for Kyiv was "not nearly enough" and would run out in a couple of weeks, leaving Ukraine outgunned by Russian President Vladimir Putin's invading forces. The Democrat urged Republicans to stop blocking his larger, $60 billion aid package for Ukraine, which has been caught up in a bitter ...
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Washington (AFP) - The White House announced Tuesday a stopgap $300 million package of vital military aid to Ukraine, sidestepping Republicans in Congress amid fears that Russia's invasion is gaining ground. The shipment, the first in months from Kyiv's biggest ally Washington, will include anti-aircraft missiles, ammunition, artillery rounds and some armored vehicles, officials said. The announcement comes as President Joe Biden hosts Poland's President Andrzej Duda and Prime Minister Donald Tusk at the White House to reassure them of US support for NATO and Ukraine. "Today, on behalf of Pres...
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Paris (AFP) - Veteran aid worker Jean-Pierre Delomier said he has seen it all responding to conflicts and disasters worldwide over the decades, but the Gaza war is by far "the worst". Returning from an eight-day mission to the south of the besieged Palestinian territory, the deputy director of Handicap International - Humanity & Inclusion (HI) said he was still "stunned". He told AFP he had never seen such a combination of "bombardment of an extremely densely populated and closed-off area, and a near-complete lack of access for humanitarian aid". Deliveries into the Gaza Strip have been reduce...
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