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Moscow (AFP) - The Kremlin on Saturday warned that the deployment of US missiles in Germany could make European capitals targets for Russian missiles in a repeat of Cold War-style confrontation. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov spoke of a "paradox" in which "Europe is a target for our missiles, our country is a target for US missiles in Europe". "We have enough capacity to contain these missiles but the potential victims are the capitals of these countries," he said, speaking to Russian state television channel Russia 1. Peskov also hinted that such a confrontation could undermine Europe as a w...
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Washington (AFP) - President Joe Biden said Thursday that US mediators were making progress in reaching a Gaza ceasefire deal as he called for an end to the Israel-Hamas war. Biden, in a high-stakes, nearly hour-long news conference aimed at repudiating doubters of his reelection bid, acknowledged concerns about Israeli actions despite his overall support for the US ally. "There's a lot of things in retrospect I wish I had been able to convince the Israelis to do, but the bottom line is we have a chance now. It's time to end this war," he said after a NATO summit in Washington. Biden acknowle...
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Washington (AFP) - Les Etats-Unis et l'Allemagne ont déjoué, plus tôt cette année, un projet d'assassinat attribué à la Russie contre le directeur général d'un grand fabricant d'armes allemand fournissant de l'armement à l'Ukraine, a rapporté jeudi la chaîne américaine CNN. Citant cinq responsables américains et occidentaux non identifiés, CNN affirme que Washington a informé Berlin de ce projet d'assassinat contre Armin Papperger, le patron de Rheinmetall, et qu'une protection lui a été fournie par les services de sécurité allemands. Selon la chaîne, ce plan fait partie d'une série de projets...
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Washington (AFP) - Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday called on NATO leaders to drop all restrictions on letting Kyiv strike inside Russia with Western weaponry as they wrapped up a three-day summit in Washington. The 32-nation alliance has used the pomp-filled 75th anniversary gala in the US capital to showcase its resolve against Moscow and backing for Kyiv. The gathering has been overshadowed by uncertainty in the United States as President Joe Biden -- who will give a press conference Thursday -- fights for his own political survival. The Ukrainian leader joined his NATO c...
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Warsaw (AFP) - China is staging army drills with Belarus this week at NATO's eastern border, in a sign of escalating tensions between Beijing and the US-led defence alliance. The joint "antiterrorist" exercises on Russian ally Belarus's soil near the Polish border come as NATO leaders gather for a summit in Washington, with the war in nearby Ukraine high on their agenda. With relations between NATO on the one hand and China and Russia on the other at a low ebb, analysts believe that Beijing wanted to send the alliance a warning message with the timing of the drills. Sino-Belarusian exercises ...
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Washington (AFP) - F-16 warplanes being sent to Ukraine is a victory for President Volodymyr Zelensky and will help protect against Russian strikes, but they are not a one-stop solution for gaps in the country's air defenses. The United States, the Netherlands and Denmark announced Wednesday that the transfer of the planes had begun, saying Ukraine "will be flying operational F-16s this summer." Zelensky had repeatedly pushed for the US-made warplanes to help counter Russia's invasion, with the United States eventually acceding last year after initially insisting that focusing on ground-based ...
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Washington (AFP) - Armenia and Azerbaijan are on the brink of an agreement for a "dignified" peace, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday, as he brought the arch-foes' foreign ministers together for talks. Years of diplomacy between the Caucasus rivals failed to reach a breakthrough, but negotiations have resumed in earnest with Armenia ceding ground after Azerbaijan last year won a decisive victory in seizing the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Blinken met Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan and Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov on the sidelines of a NATO ...
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New York (AFP) - A Canadian national and a New York resident pleaded guilty on Tuesday to illegally exporting millions of dollars worth of US electronics that were used in Russian weapons in Ukraine, the Justice Department said. Nikolay Goltsev, 38, of Montreal, and Salimdzhon Nasriddinov, 53, of Brooklyn, face up to 20 years in prison for conspiring to commit export control violations, the department said in a statement. "The defendants shipped millions of dollars of US electronics critical to the missiles and drones Russia uses to attack Ukraine, and they now face US prison time for their sc...
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United Nations (United States) (AFP) - Russia came under fire at the UN Security Council on Tuesday for conducting "systemic attacks" on Ukraine's medical facilities after a wave of deadly strikes across the country. President Volodymyr Zelensky said 38 people across Ukraine were killed -- including four children -- and 190 wounded in the wave of nearly 40 missiles that targeted several towns and cities on Monday, damaging a children's hospital. "Intentionally directing attacks against a protected hospital is a war crime and perpetrators must be held to account," Joyce Msuya, acting under-secr...
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Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) - Rescue workers were clearing debris and Ukraine was in mourning Tuesday, the day after deadly Russian strikes tore open a children's hospital and sparked international condemnation. President Volodymyr Zelensky said 38 people across Ukraine were killed -- including four children -- and 190 wounded in the wave of nearly 40 missiles that targeted several towns and cities. Officials announced a day of mourning in the capital with flags to be hung at half mast and entertainment events postponed, as cranes and first responders were working at the scene of the Okhmatdyt paedia...
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