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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden vowed to send fresh weapons to Ukraine within days as he prepared to sign on Wednesday an aid package including $61 billion meant to help Kyiv's forces push back against Russia. Congress approved on Tuesday the long-delayed legislation, which also contained a measure to ban TikTok in the United States if the popular social media app does not cut ties with its Chinese parent company. Days after the Republican-led House of Representatives cleared the aid -- part of a larger $95 billion package of assistance to allies including Israel and Taiwan -- the De...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Senate was marching toward a late Tuesday vote to green-light major military aid for Ukraine, a much-awaited package that includes assistance for Israel and Taiwan and sets the stage to ban social media app TikTok. Passage of the bill, strongly backed by President Joe Biden, is all but certain after the House of Representatives approved the assistance with broad bipartisan support following months of tense wrangling. "Let us not keep our friends around the world waiting for a moment longer," said top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer, whose party narrowly controls the cha...
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National Harbor (United States) (AFP) - With a red T-shirt covered in Donald Trump pins, there is no doubt as to which candidate Patti Douglas will be backing in November's presidential election. But unlike the former US leader, who Douglas came to see deliver a speech in the suburbs of Washington on Saturday, she has no reservations about giving Ukraine more assistance. "I want to help Ukraine... I think they are doing a really good job, but they need more help," she told AFP at the annual "CPAC" gathering of conservatives. While Ukraine marked the second anniversary of Russia's invasion on S...
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Paris (AFP) - Ukraine's withdrawal from the city of Avdiivka hands Vladimir Putin a major symbolic victory before Russia's presidential election in March and exposes Kyiv's critical shortages of weapons and soldiers. Symbol of Ukrainian resistanceAvdiivka, a small industrial city in the eastern Donbas region, has been a symbol of Ukrainian resistance to Russian aggression since 2014. It is close to the city of Donetsk, which pro-Russian separatists control as their capital and whose Moscow-backed fighters briefly took power in July 2014 before Ukrainian forces regained control. The city is now...
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Brussels (AFP) - There are no current EU talks about imposing sanctions on US talk show host Tucker Carlson, who is poised to air an interview with Russia's Vladimir Putin, a spokesman said on Thursday in response to rumours amplified by technology billionaire Elon Musk. "It's not up to us to try to pre-empt or speculate whether someone will be proposed by a member state or group of member states to be put on the sanctions list," Peter Stano, spokesman for EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, told reporters. The established sanctions procedure was "confidential", he added. "I can say beyond ...
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Moscow (AFP) - Despite the military intervention in Ukraine and efforts by the West to paint Russia as a pariah state, Moscow can still count on support from several African, Latin American and Asian governments, including that of heavyweight China. Visibly satisfied, Russian President Vladimir Putin stood shoulder to shoulder on Friday with a score of African heads of state at a Russia-Africa summit in Saint Petersburg. The message from the family photo was, he said, that Moscow was working hand in hand with the continent and its one billion people. "Russia's attention to Africa is steadily g...
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Oslo (AFP) - The Arctic Council, a model for cooperation between former Cold War foes, on Thursday saw a delicate handover of chairmanship, with the sidelining of Russia, its largest member. After two years of Russia at the helm, Norway took over the reins of the intergovernmental forum, which was considered exemplary until the invasion of Ukraine led seven of the eight members -- the United States, Canada and the five Nordic countries -- to suspend their meetings with Moscow. For the actual handover, the Western foreign ministers declined an invitation from their Russian counterpart, Sergei L...
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Paris (AFP) - Russia announced its winter offensive in Ukraine with great fanfare, but the ill-fated campaign has been another disappointment for Moscow. As spring arrives, the two armies are deadlocked with troops stretching from the shores of the Black Sea to northeast Ukraine -- and the Kremlin has once again been forced to take the long view after failing to make a breakthrough. Here's how Russia suffered a bitter setback, and what could happen next: Battle for BakhmutBakhmut has become the longest and bloodiest battle in Ukraine. Both sides have endured heavy losses in the eastern industr...
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Moscow (AFP) - Russia's Wagner paramilitary group on Monday claimed it had captured the city hall in Ukraine's eastern town of Bakhmut, giving it "legal" control, but Kyiv said its forces still held the town. The battle for Bakhmut has raged for months with Wagner supporting Russian troops and Ukraine warning the fall of the town would lead to the loss of huge swathes of its territory. Wagner head Yevgeny Prigozhin posted a video on his Telegram channel showing him holding a Russian flag, which he said his forces would plant on Bakhmut's city hall. "This is the Wagner private military company,...
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Paris (AFP) - The loss of a US drone in the Black Sea after an alleged collision with a Russian war plane has exposed the high-risk cat-and-mouse game in European skies between NATO and Russian aircraft. The US on Tuesday accused Russia of forcing down one of its Reaper surveillance drones over the Black Sea through a collision with a Russian Sukhoi-27 war plane. Russia denied that it had deliberately brought the drone down. But it was the first such incident between Moscow and Washington since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. "This event is unusual and remains exceptional. It remains ...
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