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Washington (AFP) - The United States on Wednesday rushed to send ammunition, weapons and other war supplies to Ukraine, after President Joe Biden signed a much-delayed bill to support the country as it struggles to hold back Russian advances. The final approval of the legislation -- which includes $61 billion for Kyiv out of a total of $95 billion in funding -- comes after months of political wrangling as Ukrainian forces ran short of ammunition and suffered battlefield setbacks. "I just signed into law the national security package that was passed by the House of Representatives this weekend,...
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Moscow (AFP) - A Moscow court on Tuesday denied US journalist Evan Gershkovich's appeal against the extension of his pre-trial detention in the espionage case that he and American authorities have rejected as false. Gershkovich, 32, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, has been in Moscow's notorious Lefortovo prison for more than a year after he was arrested while on a reporting trip to Russia. He is the first Western journalist since the Soviet era to be arrested by Moscow on spying charges -- accusations that he, his employer and the US government reject. "The first court of appeal ruled ...
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Washington (AFP) - US lawmakers have approved new funding to provide Ukraine with desperately needed military aid, but their months-long delay in doing so was costly, undermining Kyiv's fight against invading Russian forces. Ukraine has received only limited aid this year from the United States -- which has provided tens of billions of dollars in military assistance to Kyiv -- because money to replace items drawn from US stocks ran out and opposition from some Republicans prevented the approval of supplemental funding. The resulting gaps in assistance saw Kyiv's troops -- outnumbered and outgu...
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Washington (AFP) - The Republican leader of the US House of Representatives on Wednesday announced a weekend vote on massive new military aid including some $61 billion in long-delayed support for Ukraine, as well as billions for Israel and Taiwan. The vote -- set for Saturday -- could finally get much-needed help to outgunned Ukrainian forces as they battle Russian invaders, and President Joe Biden swiftly called for Congress to pass the package. If it does, "I will sign this into law immediately to send a message to the world: We stand with our friends, and we won't let Iran or Russia succee...
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Scranton (United States) (AFP) - In brick buildings that are more than a century old in Joe Biden's Rust Belt hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, dated machinery continues to churn out machinery for modern conflicts -- especially the war in Ukraine. The Scranton Army Ammunition Plant (SCAAP) is making steel tubes for 155 mm caliber shells, which are crucial to Kyiv's efforts to face down Moscow's invasion. The tubes are then sent to Iowa, where they are loaded with explosives. "The fuse is installed in the field... for security reasons," Richard Hansen, a retired US Navy veteran who has been ...
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Washington (AFP) - The fate of US aid to Ukraine hung in the balance Tuesday as House Speaker Mike Johnson faced potential revolt from within his Republican party over his complex plan to renew the long-delayed funding along with fresh assistance for Israel. Johnson, who leads a razor-thin Republican majority, announced late Monday that his chamber would vote this week on separate aid bills for Ukraine, Israel, and other national security items, after stalling for months over pressure from his party's right-wing. Several members of that faction quickly voiced outrage at the $95 billion plan an...
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Aboard Air Force One (AFP) - The White House said Tuesday that separate aid bills set for a vote in the US House this week appear to meet the long-delayed military needs of Ukraine and Israel. But US President Joe Biden needs to study the proposals by Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson more closely before making a final decision, it added. Johnson said Monday that his Republican-controlled chamber would vote this week on the bills after after stalling for months over pressure from his party's right-wing. Whether Johnson can get his deeply divided party to support him, however, remains to be...
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Washington (AFP) - US House Speaker Mike Johnson said Monday that his Republican-controlled chamber would vote this week on separate aid bills for Ukraine and Israel, after stalling for months over pressure from his party's right-wing. The US Senate passed a $95 billion package in February that included massive new funds to help Ukraine in its fight against Russia's invasion, as well as new support for Israel and Taiwan. Johnson, leading a razor-thin Republican majority in the House, has refused to allow a vote in his chamber on the so-called security supplemental, despite urgent pleas from Uk...
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New York (AFP) - Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's posthumous memoir will be released in October, chronicling his 2020 nerve agent poisoning and life in a brutal Russian prison camp, the US publisher of the book said Thursday. The key opponent of Russian leader Vladimir Putin died in February in a penal colony, where he had been held in harsh conditions, sparking worldwide condemnation. Titled "Patriot," the book will be released on October 22, publisher Knopf said in a statement, while his widow confirmed the book would also be issued in Russian. "It is the full story of his life: his youth, h...
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Washington (AFP) - President Joe Biden on Wednesday urged the US House of Representatives to vote immediately on billions of dollars in Ukraine aid, as the chamber's Republican speaker hesitates in the face of pressure from Donald Trump and his allies. "There's overwhelming support for Ukraine among the majority of Democrats and Republicans. There should be a vote now," Biden told reporters after meeting Japan's prime minister. Biden has proposed a package of $60 billion for Ukraine as it seeks to fight back against a more than two-year-old Russian invasion. The funds passed the Senate, led by...
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