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The ambassadors of Spain and Ireland as well as the Norwegian representative to Israel have been reprimanded at the Israeli Foreign Ministry. They were also shown a video on Thursday of the brutal capture of army observers on October 7 by militants from the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas. Foreign Minister Israel Katz had already announced this plan on Wednesday together with the summoning of the diplomats. Israeli media had also been invited to the screening of the video. In a subsequent statement, the Foreign Ministry said that the recognition of a Palestinian state by the governments of No...
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The Ukraine peace summit planned next month in Switzerland is a bid to impose conditions on Russia to end the conflict, President Vladimir Putin said on Friday at the close of his two-day trip to China. He said he had spoken with China's President Xi Jinping about the operations in Ukraine. Putin has consistently upheld his decision to attack Russia's neighbour in 2022 despite the heavy costs for both countries. Speaking in Harbin, Putin gave no further details of the conversation with Xi, whose country has not joined international condemnation of Russia's war. Ukraine and the West hope that C...
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The European Union on Tuesday gave the final green light to a landmark overhaul of its migration and asylum policies that will see hardened borders and responsibility shared among member states. EU officials had been at pains to wrap up the migration reforms - the product of years of debate - ahead of European Parliament elections scheduled for June. The issue has been politically divisive, especially since an influx of arrivals in 2015 that exposed the migration system's weaknesses. WHAT WAS AGREED? The overhaul consists of ten pieces of legislation supported by the vast majority of EU member...
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The United Arab Emirates (UAE) lashed out on Saturday at a suggestion from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to join a potential civil administration in the post-war Gaza Strip. Netanyahu suggested in a recent interview that a civilian administration with Gazans and possibly with the aid of the UAE, Saudi Arabia and other countries could run Gaza after the war. On Saturday, UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed said his country denounces Netanyahu's call, adding that Gaza is currently under Israeli occupation. "The State of Emirates stresses that the Israeli prime minister has no leg...
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On Wednesday, ten countries celebrated 20 years in the European Union. Poland had found its place "among friends, among allies, in Europe, at home: This is what generations of Poles have fought for," said Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski in a ceremony at the Polish-German border, on the bridge over the Oder river that joins the cities of Słubice and Frankfurt an der Oder. May 1, 2004 was the largest single expansion in the history of the EU. Of the ten countries that joined that day, eight had emerged from behind the Iron Curtain in the wake of the upheavals of 1989: Poland, the Czech...
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz believes that the war in Ukraine could drag on for several more years; Nobody could say whether this war might not even last five years, for example, Scholz said on Friday evening in the eastern city of Chemnitz. He defended Germany's military support for Ukraine. In addition, diplomacy must be cultivated, he added. Since the beginning of the war, however, Russian President Vladimir Putin had shown no signs of movement, he said. A dictated peace is unacceptable, emphasized Scholz: "He must not be allowed to get away with this." Scholz was a guest on Friday evening...
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz believes that the war in Ukraine could drag on for several more years; nobody could say whether this war might not even last five years, for example, Scholz said on Friday evening in the eastern city of Chemnitz. He defended Germany's military support for Ukraine. In addition, diplomacy must be cultivated, he added. Since the beginning of the war, however, Russian President Vladimir Putin had shown no signs of movement, he said. A dictated peace is unacceptable, emphasized Scholz: "He must not be allowed to get away with this." Scholz was a guest on Friday evening...
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After more than two years of intense fighting in Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday reasserted Moscow's claimed right to rule over its neighbour. At most, the future of western Ukraine is unclear, Lavrov told several Russian broadcasters in an interview in Moscow. Otherwise, there will only be a Ukraine "that is truly Russian, that wants to be part of the Russian world, that wants to speak Russian and educate its children," he said. There was no question of any alternative, according to Lavrov, 74, who has served as foreign minister since 2004 and is a staunch supporter ...
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that talks with Chinese officials about the war in Ukraine during his recent trip provided a "very important boost" for diplomatic efforts to end the conflict. Scholz emphasized that he was in agreement with the Chinese leadership on the need for peace conferences in Switzerland to discuss the war. Diplomatic efforts are "something that is indispensable in this laborious process, and I am grateful that Germany, and I personally, were also able to make a contribution," Scholz said on Friday. Scholz said that the diplomatic efforts were "still a plant that need...
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German leaders called for de-escalation and urged restraint on Sunday following Iran's overnight attack on Israel, amid fears Tehran's move could spark a wider conflagration in the Middle East. Chancellor Olaf Scholz warned while on a visit to China against any further escalation. "Things must not continue in this way," Scholz said in Chongqing. "We will do everything we can to avoid further escalation." Scholz termed the Iranian attack "absolutely unjustifiable" and added that it was in no way acceptable, understandable or tolerable. "All we can do is warn everyone, especially Iran, against c...
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