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By Daniel CAPURRO Nicosie (AFP) - Au coeur de Nicosie, deux soldats de la Force des Nations unies chargée du maintien de la paix à Chypre (UNFICYP), déployée sur l'île méditerranéenne depuis 1964, ouvrent une porte cadenassée de la zone démilitarisée qui sépare Chypriotes grecs et Chypriotes turcs et témoigne d'un conflit sans issue en vue. Depuis 60 ans, les soldats de l'ONU, intervenus pour empêcher les affrontements entre les deux communautés qui mèneront à la division de l'île après l'invasion de sa partie nord par la Turquie en 1974, en réponse à un coup d'Etat de nationalistes chypriotes...
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A total of 285 candidates have been nominated for this year's Nobel Peace Prize, including 196 individuals and 89 organizations, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced on Wednesday. This means that this year's field of candidates is significantly smaller than last year, when there were 351 valid nominations. The highest number of nominees was reached in 2016 with 376 candidates. The deadline for nominating potential award winners was the end of January. The Nobel Institutions traditionally keep the names of the candidates secret for 50 years. Members of parliament, members of government, head...
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Oslo (AFP) - The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on Friday to imprisoned activist Narges Mohammadi for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran, many of whom are removing their hijabs despite a harsh crackdown. Mohammadi's award comes after a wave of protests swept Iran following the death in custody a year ago of a young Iranian Kurd, Mahsa Amini, arrested for violating Iran's strict dress rules for women. A 51-year-old journalist and activist, Mohammadi has spent much of the past two decades in and out of jail for her campaign against the mandatory hijab for women and the death penalt...
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Washington (AFP) - The United States hosted negotiations between Armenia and Azerbaijan on Monday, seeking to quell recent tension over the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. The two sides have gone to war twice, in 1990 and 2020, leaving tens of thousands dead, and clashes regularly erupt over the territory, an Armenian-majority region inside Azerbaijan. Tensions have spiked again this week after Azerbaijan announced it had set up a checkpoint on the Lachin Corridor, the only land link between Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, sparking an angry response from Yerevan. Armenia views the move as ...
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Washington (AFP) - Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich and Ukrainian negotiators were targets of a suspected poison attack, potentially by Moscow hardliners seeking to sabotage peace talks, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday. The billionaire businessman, recently slapped with sanctions by Western nations seeking to pressure Russian President Vladimir Putin over his invasion of Ukraine, has reportedly been shuttling between Kyiv, Moscow and other negotiation sites. A source familiar with the matter confirmed the report to AFP, stating: "Unfortunately this took place, what the Wall Street Jou...
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Washington (AFP) - The US government has notified Congress that it will remove the official terror group designation from former rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a congressional source told AFP Tuesday. The decision comes on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the peace pact between the Colombian government and FARC, which led to their being disarmed and dissolved after decades of fighting. Without confirming the actual action planned, State Department spokesman Ned Price said they had notified Congress of "upcoming actions" related to FARC. "The peace process and t...
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Washington (AFP) - Secretary of State Antony Blinken called Friday on Israel to ensure "equal" treatment of the Palestinians as the new US administration cautiously steps up efforts for a two-state solution. In a telephone call with Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi, Blinken "emphasized the administration's belief that Israelis and Palestinians should enjoy equal measures of freedom, security, prosperity and democracy," State Department spokesman Ned Price said. Blinken also committed to "strengthening all aspects of the US-Israel partnership" and voiced support for the Jewish state's agreements...
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United Nations (United States) (AFP) - The United States vowed Tuesday to protect progress made in Afghanistan on women's rights over the past 20 years, as it pushes for a transitional government in Kabul that would include the Taliban. "We must do more to support the women and girls of Afghanistan," the US ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, told the UN Security Council during a debate on Afghanistan. "Any agreement must preserve their gains if Afghanistan wants to ensure the international community’s continued political and financial support. We will not give an inch ...
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Oslo (AFP) - Black Lives Matter, a movement which became a rallying cry after the killing by US police of an unarmed black man, has been proposed for the Nobel Peace Prize, a Norwegian MP said Saturday. Founded in the United States in 2013, the movement received an impetus in May after George Floyd died. A white policeman had knelt on Floyd's neck for eight minutes ignoring Floyd's pleas that he couldn't breathe. The incident fuelled protests in the United States that sped across the world. "This movement has become one of the strongest global movements for working with racial injustice," Pet...
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