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Caracas (AFP) - Venezuela and the United States have agreed to "improve relations" as they resumed negotiations just months after Washington reimposed crippling sanctions on the South American country, Caracas said Wednesday. At an initial meeting, the two sides agreed on a "willingness" to work together to "improve relations," President Nicolas Maduro's top negotiator Jorge Rodriguez announced on X. They also agreed to "maintain communications in a respectful and constructive manner," he said. Maduro announced on Monday that talks would resume with the United States -- a longtime foe of the l...
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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden on Tuesday congratulated South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa on winning a new term, devoting time to a key if complicated relationship despite a political storm in Washington. On a day when the first member of his Democratic Party in Congress called for Biden to step aside after a shaky debate performance worsened concern about his age, the White House said the 81-year-old president spoke by telephone to Ramaphosa. The White House said Biden congratulated Ramaphosa and discussed "areas of future partnership, including leadership in the G20," the c...
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Washington (AFP) - Haiti's new leader was in the United States on Saturday for a visit set to include meetings with international financial institutions as well as a White House official, his office and a National Security Council spokesperson said. The trip by Prime Minister Garry Conille, heading the country's transitional government, and other officials comes days after Kenyan police finally arrived in violence-ravaged Haiti, on a long-awaited mission to help stabilize the Caribbean nation, upended by powerful gangs. Washington has promised generous funding for the UN-backed mission, but r...
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Washington (AFP) - The United States offered rare criticism of close partner India in a report published Wednesday on religious freedom, while also voicing alarm over rising bigotry worldwide against both Jews and Muslims. Secretary of State Antony Blinken unveiled the annual report and said that the United States was also facing its own sharp increase of both anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in connection to the Gaza war. "In India, we see a concerning increase in anti-conversion laws, hate speech, demolitions of homes and places of worship for members of minority faith communities," Blinken sa...
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Washington (AFP) - Ahead of their first presidential debate, Joe Biden and Donald Trump are offering sharply different visions of the US role in the world, both in style and substance. The rare matchup between a current and former president puts their stark contrasts on display. Trump during his 2017-2021 presidency vowed to put "America First," with a combative and often isolationist view of the world, while Biden took office in 2021 vowing "America is Back," rekindling relationships with allies. The two presidents have some core beliefs in common. Both were adamant on pulling US troops out o...
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Sydney (AFP) - Behind closed doors, an Australia-US-UK diplomatic dance opened the way for a plea deal to free WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, analysts and a diplomat previously involved in the case told AFP. The 52-year-old Australian citizen walked out of his five-year visit to London's high-security Belmarsh prison on Monday after agreeing to plead guilty to a single count of revealing US national defence secrets. Assange's release had been under discussion "for a little while now", said Jared Mondschein, director of research at the University of Sydney's United States Studies Centre. "It...
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New York (AFP) - An Indian national extradited to the United States from the Czech Republic pleaded not guilty on Monday to involvement in an alleged plot to kill a Sikh separatist leader on US soil. Nikhil Gupta, 52, who was detained at Prague airport in June 2023 on a US warrant, arrived in the United States on Friday. Gupta appeared before a federal magistrate judge in New York on Monday and pleaded not guilty to charges of murder-for-hire, according to court filings. "This extradition makes clear that the Justice Department will not tolerate attempts to silence or harm American citizens," ...
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Bari (Italy) (AFP) - From bear hugs to looks that could kill, G7 leaders may have put on a show of unity at an Italy summit this week -- but it was not all la dolce vita. Footage of the leaders singing "Happy Birthday" to Germany's Olaf Scholz at Joe Biden's urging was the perfect display of Group of Seven cooperation. Thursday's welcoming embrace between Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, the summit host, and Britain's Rishi Sunak was so enthusiastic it went viral. "Giorgia is fantastic," Sunak told reporters Friday, highlighting the two right-wing leaders' cooperation on migration and de...
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Bari (Italy) (AFP) - When US President Joe Biden meets world leaders at a lavish Italian resort this week he will be shadowed by an invisible and, for now, uninvited guest: Donald Trump. The G7 summit in Puglia comes just five months before a nail-biting US presidential election that is testing not only America's democracy but also causing huge uncertainty for its allies. Hanging over the leaders is the knowledge that it could be the 81-year-old Biden's last G7 summit, and that the right-wing Trump, with his so-called America First policies and demonstrated scorn for international organisation...
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Mexico City (AFP) - A landslide election win will embolden Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico's first woman president, to defend her country's interests in sometimes-tense relations with the United States dominated by trade, migration and drugs, experts say. While the president-elect is expected to be more diplomatic in public than her sharp-tongued predecessor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, known by his initials AMLO, in private it could be a different story. The left-wing former Mexico City mayor apparently plans to be "a tough opponent" for Washington, said Duncan Wood, an expert at the Mexico Institu...
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