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Los Angeles (AFP) - A major film that imagines a second civil war in the near-future United States has highlighted fears about the divided state of the nation ahead of November's presidential election. "Civil War," which premiered at the SXSW Festival this week and hits theaters April 12, pictures a three-term US president in Washington DC battling secessionist forces from California and Texas. The movie stars Kirsten Dunst as a journalist travelling through a broken, dystopian nation. The FBI has been disbanded, and military drone strikes launched on US citizens. In early reviews, The Atlanti...
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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden announced sanctions against Russia Friday, on over 500 targets, to mark the second anniversary of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine while vowing sustained pressure to stop President Vladimir Putin's "war machine." The sanctions, described as the largest single tranche since the start of the war, also seek to impose a cost for the death last week in a Siberian prison of Putin's most vocal critic, Alexei Navalny -- with measures taken against three officials. But they stopped short of potentially game-changing moves under consideration such as funding Ukraine...
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Washington (AFP) - The United States unsealed charges on Thursday against Russian oligarchs to mark the upcoming second anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. "The Justice Department is more committed than ever to cutting off the flow of illegal funds that are fueling (Vladimir) Putin's war and to holding accountable those who continue to enable it," Attorney General Merrick Garland said. "That is why today we are announcing several additional enforcement actions that the Justice Department has taken to bring prosecutions against and seize assets of sanctioned enablers of the Kremlin an...
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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden's administration is "firmly committed" to seeking more budget support for Ukraine, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told key EU officials Wednesday, despite Congress remaining in gridlock. "Failure to act would hand a victory to (Russian President Vladimir Putin) and have unthinkable consequences not only for Ukraine, but also for our collective security," Yellen said. Speaking at the start of a Washington meeting with EU executive vice presidents Margrethe Vestager and Valdis Dombrovskis, she added that Congress must act quickly to reach a deal. "We ca...
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Washington (AFP) - US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan met Tuesday to discuss shifting "to a different phase" of the Israel-Hamas war with Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer, a White House official said. The meeting provided an opportunity to talk about steps to improve the humanitarian situation in war-torn Gaza and minimize harm to civilians, according to the official, who did not wish to be named. It was also meant as a chance to speak on "the transition to a different phase of the war to maximize focus on high-value Hamas targets," the official said, referring to the P...
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Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned Friday that "slower" arms shipments from Western countries were threatening his counteroffensive, calling for more powerful and long-range weapons to push back Russian forces. Ukraine launched its counteroffensive in June after stockpiling Western weapons, but has made limited gains as its troops encounter heavily fortified Russian defensive lines. "All processes are becoming more complicated and slower -- from sanctions to the provision of weapons," Zelensky said in comments published on the presidential website. "The longer...
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Moscow (AFP) - The head of Russia's mercenary outfit Wagner said on Thursday it could take months to capture the embattled Ukraine city of Bakhmut and slammed Moscow's "monstrous bureaucracy" for slowing military gains. Russia has been trying to encircle and capture the battered industrial city ahead of February 24, the first anniversary of what it terms its "special military operation" in Ukraine. "I think it's (going to be in) March or in April," Wagner head Yevgeny Prigozhin said in one of several messages posted online. "To take Bakhmut you have to cut all supply routes. It's a significant...
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Washington (AFP) - A Chinese invasion of Taiwan would likely fail if the United States helps defend the island -- but at a debilitating cost to the American military itself, according to a US think tank Monday. Military experts brought together by the Center for Strategic and International Studies to wargame the conflict said every likely direct participant in a war -- the United States, China, Taiwan and Japan -- would experience "enormous" losses. Chinese missiles would likely destroy US air bases in Japan and as far as Guam, and sink two US aircraft carriers and between 10 and 20 destroyers...
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Washington (AFP) - For 60 years, the Cuban missile crisis has loomed both as a frightening lesson on how close the world came to nuclear doomsday -- and how skillful leadership averted it. With Russian President Vladimir Putin brandishing the nuclear option in Ukraine, the threat has come roaring back, but this time, experts are less certain of a way to end it. US President Joe Biden in early October warned bluntly that the world risked nuclear destruction for the first time since 1962, saying that Putin was "not joking" about the use of the ultra-destructive weapons as his military is "signif...
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Cricqueville-en-Bessin (France) (AFP) - A large section of the Pointe du Hoc cliffs has collapsed on France's northern coast, damaging the site of a daring vertical assault by US Army Rangers on D-Day in 1944. "Part of the outcrop overlooking the English Channel collapsed" on Friday, the American Battle Monuments Commission, which has cared for the site since 1956, said in a statement. "No one was injured in the landslide, which fell into the sea, and there is no risk for visitors," it added. An AFP photographer saw around 100 tourists present on a sunny day at the site in Normandy in northern...
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