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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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Washington (AFP) - Secretary of State Antony Blinken heads to Europe on Wednesday as he faces an uphill climb to quell doubts on US leadership, with Congress deadlocked on providing new aid to Ukraine and presidential contender Donald Trump lashing out at NATO allies. Months before President Joe Biden stands for reelection, Blinken will take part in the Munich Security Conference alongside Vice President Kamala Harris after first stopping Thursday in Albania, a close US ally that has strongly backed Ukraine as it defends against Russia's invasion. The trip comes as Ukraine is beginning to feel...
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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden on Friday awarded the nation's highest military honor to a Black special forces hero who saved his men from an enemy raid 60 years ago in the Vietnam War. The exploits of Paris Davis, now 83, were largely forgotten by a US military bureaucracy that failed to process his paperwork, effectively denying him the Medal of Honor, the country's highest military distinction. Davis is "a true hero of the nation," Biden said at a White House ceremony. Biden said that the now retired Green Beret colonel had grown up in a racially segregated US South, where "in th...
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Washington (AFP) - Abortion bans enacted across America will be especially painful for women in the US military, one more hurdle they have to face in a man's world where sexual assault and unwanted pregnancies occur more often than in the rest of society. After Friday's tectonic decision by the US Supreme Court overturning constitutional protections for abortion rights, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin vowed to review Pentagon policies to "ensure we continue to provide seamless access to reproductive health care as permitted by federal law." However, Austin stopped short of announcing any new me...
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Washington (AFP) - An increasing number of unidentified flying objects have been reported in the sky over the past 20 years, a top US defense official told lawmakers Tuesday in the first public hearing on UFOs in half a century. "Since the early 2000s we have seen an increasing number of unauthorized and/or unidentified aircraft or objects in military controlled training areas and training ranges and other designated airspace," Scott Bray, deputy director of Naval intelligence, told a House security panel. Bray attributed the rise to efforts by the US military to "destigmatize the act of repor...
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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden and China's Xi Jinping traded strong warnings on the future of Taiwan at a virtual summit meant to establish "guardrails" against conflict between their rival superpowers. The video-link summit, which took place late Monday in Washington and early Tuesday in Beijing, lasted a "longer than expected" three and a half hours, a senior US official told reporters. "The conversation was respectful and straightforward." While the goal was to settle an increasingly volatile relationship between the giant economic and geopolitical competitors, tension over Taiwa...
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Washington (AFP) - President Joe Biden on Thursday saluted the nation's troops as the "very spine of America" at a Veterans Day ceremony in Arlington National Cemetery -- the first since the end of military operations in Afghanistan. Biden also paid tribute to the late retired four-star general Colin Powell, a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and secretary of state who died last month of complications from Covid-19, after a battle with cancer. "Our veterans represent the best of America," Biden said at the ceremony, which also marked the 100th anniversary of the hallowed Tomb of th...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Navy on Thursday sacked the commanding officer, executive officer and top enlisted sailor of a nuclear-powered submarine that crashed into an underwater mountain, saying the October 2 accident was preventable. Commander Cameron Aljilani and two others were removed from their positions following an investigation into the crash in the disputed South China Sea. The USS Connecticut was forced to sail on the surface for a week to reach Guam. "Sound judgement, prudent decision-making and adherence to required procedures in navigation planning, watch team execution and risk ...
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Washington (AFP) - The Defense Department supports the ongoing efforts of US military veterans to help evacuate at risk Afghans from the country, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said Monday. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin "shares the same concerns that so many of these veterans groups and individual veterans have for our Afghan allies that are still there and still want to leave the country," Kirby told reporters. "You've heard him say many times that we believe we have a sacred obligation to those who helped us over the last 20 years," the spokesman said. "Nothing's changed about that so he sha...
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