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Washington (AFP) - Joe Biden's red lines over Israel's assault on Rafah have kept shifting, but the US president faces growing pressure to take a firmer stance after a deadly strike in the Gazan city. Despite global outrage over the attack in which 45 people were killed, the White House insisted on Tuesday that it did not believe Israel had launched the major operation that Biden has warned against. John Kirby, the US National Security Council spokesman, said that Biden had been consistent and was not "moving the stick" on what defined an all-out military offensive by key ally Israel. But Bide...
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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden has no plans to change his Israel policy following a deadly weekend strike on Gaza's Rafah -- but is not turning a "blind eye" to the plight of Palestinian civilians, the White House said Tuesday. Gazan health authorities said 45 people were killed as a blaze tore through a camp for displaced people following the Sunday strike by Israel. But Washington does not believe that Israel's actions in Rafah amount to a full-scale operation that would breach Biden's "red lines," National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said. "As a result of this strike on...
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Madrid (AFP) - Spain, Ireland and Norway formally recognised a Palestinian state on Tuesday in a coordinated decision slammed by Israel as a "reward" for Hamas, more than seven months into the devastating Gaza war. The three European countries believe their initiative has strong symbolic impact that could encourage others to follow suit. After Ireland's government formally approved the measure, Prime Minister Simon Harris said the aim was to keep Middle East peace hopes alive. "We had wanted to recognise Palestine at the end of a peace process. However, we have made this move alongside Spai...
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Armenian police have made more than 200 arrests after tens of thousands of protesters joined countrywide demonstrations calling for Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to step down, a dpa correspondent in Yerevan reported on Monday. The demonstrators blocked streets in many locations, accusing Pashinyan of making territorial concessions to neighbouring Azerbaijan to secure a peace treaty. The protests, which have been running for weeks, are being led by Bagrat Galstanyan, archbishop of the Tavush diocese in north-eastern Armenia. Galstanyan has recently emerged as a vocal opponent of Pashinyan. He ...
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Kharkiv (Ukraine) (AFP) - The death toll from Russian strikes on a hardware store in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv rose to 16 Sunday, the regional governor said, as rescuers searched the charred debris for bodies. "Unfortunately, 16 have already been recorded dead," Oleg Synegubov, Kharkiv regional governor, said on Telegram, while 43 were wounded. Russian strikes hit the Epitsentr superstore on Saturday, sparking a massive fire that makes the dead hard to identify. Police said six of the dead had been identified, including a 12-year-old girl who was visiting the city, while several pe...
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Washington (AFP) - A US couple was among three missionaries shot and killed by a gang outside a church in the Haitian capital, which has endured months of extreme violence with deadly assaults on hospitals, prisons and government buildings. Missions in Haiti, an Oklahoma-based nonprofit founded in 2000, said Davy and Natalie Lloyd and a third person were killed in Port-au-Prince by armed men on Thursday evening. The third victim was identified by US media outlets as Jude Montis, the Haitian director of Missions in Haiti. "Davy and Natalie and Jude were shot and killed by the gang about 9 o'clo...
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By Maria DANILOVA Washington (AFP) - Le chanteur d'opéra Iouriï Ivaskevytch a troqué son classique costume noir pour un treillis militaire lorsque la Russie a envahi son pays, l'Ukraine. Mais lorsqu'il a perdu une jambe dans l'explosion d'une mine, il est revenu à la musique pour défendre sa patrie. A 51 ans, M. Ivaskevytch est membre des Forces culturelles, une unité militaire ukrainienne récente composée de musiciens professionnels qui se produisent pour les soldats sur les lignes de front afin de remonter le moral des troupes le temps de quelques notes. "Grâce à nous, ils peuvent se replong...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - A Ukrainian pilot project to compensate women raped by invading Russian soldiers could offer a roadmap for dealing with wartime sexual violence, says a Nobel Prize winner and expert on conflict atrocities. Denis Mukwege, a 69-year-old medical doctor, has dedicated his life to helping victims of some of the most horrific violence committed by military men. In his native Democratic Republic of Congo, which has been riven by violence for years, he has treated tens of thousands of women raped or mutilated by rampaging militias. Many victims feel they are invisible, unable to sp...
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By Peter CATTERALL Pingtan (Chine) (AFP) - "L'île nous reviendra un jour!": sur la côte Est chinoise en face de Taïwan, des touristes scrutent vendredi les eaux du détroit, où se déroulent des exercices militaires, en rêvant de "réunification pacifique" avec le territoire. Dans son discours d'investiture lundi, le nouveau président taïwanais Lai Ching-te a promis de préserver le système démocratique de l'île et semblé vouloir creuser la séparation avec la Chine continentale. En réponse, Pékin a lancé de grandes manoeuvres militaires pour encercler le territoire et a accusé M. Lai de pousser Ta...
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Washington (AFP) - Ukrainian opera singer Yurii Ivaskevych traded his tuxedo for military fatigues to fight the Russian invasion. When he lost his leg in a mine explosion last year, music called him again. Ivaskevych, 51, is a member of Cultural Forces, a recently created Ukrainian military unit that consists of professional musicians who perform for soldiers on the front lines to lift their spirits and relieve them, if only briefly, of the horrors of war. "With us, they can cast their mind back to their past lives even for an hour -- something good, some positive emotions," Ivaskevych, whose ...
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