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Washington (AFP) - The Republican-led US House of Representatives voted Thursday to force President Joe Biden to end his hold on high-payload bombs approved for Israel but blocked over concerns about their use in Gaza. The largely symbolic move -- it has no chance of becoming law -- is a response to Biden suspending the shipments over fears of mass Palestinian casualties as Israeli forces press their assault on the densely populated city of Rafah. The Israel Security Assistance Support Act would prevent Biden from freezing any congressionally approved military aid to Israel, including 3,500 2,...
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The Asian football federation AFC is supporting the Palestinian football body's request for sanctions against the Israeli football association ahead of the FIFA Congress in Bangkok due to the ongoing war in Gaza. "The AFC stands together with the Palestinian federation, and we join them in seeking effective football-related solutions to the grievances raised by the Palestinian federation in their proposal," AFC president Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa said on Thursday. "It is our duty to support the Palestinian federation for a swift and effective resolution in line with the rules, regul...
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Minor riots broke out in Berlin on Wednesday evening following a peaceful demonstration to commemorate Nakba Day (Catastrophe Day), commemorating the flight and displacement of more than 700,000 Palestinians during the first Middle East war in 1948. According to German police, demonstrators set fire to rubbish bins and fire-crackers were set off. The police detained several demonstrators. The number of people involved was in the double-digit range, a police spokeswoman said. According to authorities, around 200 people had initially gathered on the Berlin street Sonnenallee following an appeal ...
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Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) - President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday hailed Russian advances in the Kharkiv region and the recapture of a symbolic town further south that was one of the only prizes of Ukraine's underwhelming counteroffensive last summer. Moscow's claims came as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced fresh military aid during a visit to Kyiv and said Washington had not explicitly prohibited Ukraine from using Western weapons to strike targets inside Russia. The Russian advances on two fronts point to the acute ammunition and manpower shortages crippling the Ukrainian military t...
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Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was trying to send a message of defiance and hope when he took to the stage of a Kyiv bar on Tuesday night for a guitar performance of "Rockin' in the Free World". But some Ukrainians have reacted angrily, chastising Washington's top diplomat for an ill-judged jam session in the capital while Ukrainian troops are fighting in trenches, struggling to hold back a Russian advance amid a shortage of weapons. "One word is enough to describe US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's evening in Kyiv yesterday: inappropriate," said Svitlana Matvi...
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Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) - The United States will back Ukraine until its security is "guaranteed", US Secretary of State Antony Blinken vowed on a trip to Kyiv on Tuesday, after Russian forces claimed further advances in the northeastern Kharkiv region. Blinken's visit came just weeks after the US Congress finally approved a $61-billion financial aid package for Ukraine following months of political wrangling, unlocking much-needed arms for the country's outgunned troops. "We're with you today. And we will stay by your side, until Ukraine's security, sovereignty, and ability to choose its own pa...
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San Francisco (AFP) - The European Union's top diplomat has said that the United States is showing "fatigue" in its Middle East diplomacy and called for greater EU efforts toward a Palestinian state. On a visit to California, the bloc's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell again strongly criticized Israel's war campaign, saying Gazans were "dying and starving and suffering in unimaginable proportions" and that it was a "man-made disaster." "I see a certain fatigue from the US side to continue engaging in looking for a solution," Borrell said in a speech Monday at Stanford University that was pub...
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Paris (AFP) - Russia's offensive around Ukraine's Kharkiv likely aims more at presenting Kyiv with a strategic quandary over where to deploy its already stretched forces than taking the major city, experts say. Moscow's troops were by Monday firing on around 30 villages in the northeast region and had occupied tens of square kilometres (miles) in the space of a few days. But analysts don't see Russia's immediate aim as taking Ukraine's second-largest city, with a pre-war population of 1.4 million, after Moscow already failed to capture the industrial hub in its initial invasion from February 2...
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Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived Tuesday morning in Kyiv on an unannounced visit meant to reassure Ukrainians of continued US support and flow of weapons as Russia pummels the northeastern Kharkiv region. Marking his fourth visit to Kyiv since the start of the Russian invasion in February 2022, Blinken arrived by overnight train from Poland and was due to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, according to an AFP journalist accompanying him. The visit comes just weeks after the US Congress finally approved a $61 billion package of financial aid for...
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Washington (AFP) - The United States does not believe that genocide is occurring in Gaza but Israel must do more to protect Palestinian civilians, President Joe Biden's top national security official said Monday. As ceasefire talks stall and Israel continued striking the southern city of Rafah, White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan insisted that the responsibility for peace lay with militant group Hamas. "We believe Israel can and must do more to ensure the protection and wellbeing of innocent civilians. We do not believe what is happening in Gaza is a genocide," Sullivan told a ...
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