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Tel Aviv (AFP) - Top US diplomat Antony Blinken was due to travel to Egypt on Tuesday for talks on a Gaza ceasefire after saying Israel had accepted a US "bridging proposal" for a deal and urging Hamas to do the same. Blinken, on his ninth visit to the Middle East since the Palestinian militant group's October 7 attack triggered the war with Israel, was scheduled to fly from Tel Aviv to El Alamein, the Mediterranean city famous for a World War II battle in 1942, to speak to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi at his summer palace. Afterwards, he will head to a meeting with Qatar's emir, Sh...
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Chicago (AFP) - Protesters against Israel's war in Gaza briefly breached the outer security fence of the Democratic convention in Chicago Monday, hours before US President Joe Biden passed the torch to new nominee Kamala Harris. Biden did not directly address the security lapse in his hour-long speech, but he said "those protesters out in the street, they have a point. A lot of innocent people are being killed, on both sides" of the Israel-Hamas conflict. A small group of around 100 demonstrators broke off from a larger march involving thousands of people and targeted the metal barriers surrou...
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Tel Aviv (AFP) - Top US diplomat Antony Blinken on Monday said Israel has accepted a US "bridging proposal" for a Gaza truce deal, and pressed Hamas to do the same, having earlier said the talks may be the "last opportunity" for a ceasefire. Blinken, on his ninth visit to the Middle East since Hamas's October 7 attack triggered the war with Israel, said he had "a very constructive meeting" with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who "confirmed to me that Israel accepts the bridging proposal." "He supports it. It's now incumbent on Hamas to do the same," Blinken told reporters in Tel A...
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Police in Istanbul have launched a large-scale investigation after a Palestinian was killed and two others were wounded in a shooting as they sat in a car, officials and media said Monday. The killer dropped a handgun fitted with a silencer at the scene, the Istanbul Governor's Office said in a brief statement. The Demiroren News Agency reported that the man sitting in the driver's seat was killed and his friend seriously wounded in the shooting late on Sunday. Another man, who the governor's office described as the dead man’s bodyguard, was injured in the foot. The identities of the victims w...
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New York (AFP) - The president of New York's Columbia University resigned on Wednesday, just weeks before the start of the new school year, citing the toll taken by a "period of turmoil" after she faced scrutiny for her handling of demonstrations over the Israel-Hamas war. British-American economist Minouche Shafik is the fourth president of an Ivy League university to step down in the wake of the bitter divisions and anti-war protests that swept campuses nationwide. The protests that roiled Columbia and other schools culminated in US Congress grilling higher education leaders about accusatio...
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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden's administration on Tuesday approved more than $20 billion in new weapons sales to Israel, brushing aside pressure from rights activists to stop arms deliveries over the death toll in Gaza. The sale comes as Biden has pressed Israel and Hamas to reach a ceasefire after 10 months of bloodshed, although the weapons would take years to reach Israel. In a notification to Congress, the State Department said it had approved a sale of 50 F-15 fighter jets to Israel for $18.82 billion. Israel will also buy nearly 33,000 tank cartridges, up to 50,000 explosive ...
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Washington (AFP) - Iran could launch a "significant" attack on Israel as soon as this week, the White House said Monday, as US President Joe Biden discussed the crisis with European leaders. "We have to be prepared for what could be a significant set of attacks," National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters. "We share the same concerns and expectations that our Israeli counterparts have with respect to potential timing here -- could be this week," added Kirby. Kirby's comments came as the United States is rushing an aircraft carrier strike group and a guided missile submarine ...
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The Israeli military ordered more evacuations in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis on Sunday following a deadly airstrike on a school-turned-shelter which killed dozens. Israel said it had targeted a militant command post, killing 19 fighters. A cloud of black smoke billowed into the sky over the Gaza Strip on Sunday as the devastating Israel-Hamas war continued. Israel has repeatedly ordered mass evacuations as its troops return to heavily destroyed areas where they previously battled Palestinian militants. Most of Gaza's population of 2.3 million people have been displaced by the 10-mont...
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By Shaun TANDON Washington (AFP) - Ne pas laisser deux guerres à Kamala Harris: six mois avant de quitter la Maison Blanche, Joe Biden s'implique "jour et nuit" pour mettre fin aux conflits à Gaza et au Soudan, avec l'espoir de redorer son blason en politique étrangère, selon des experts. Le président des Etats-Unis s'est joint jeudi au Qatar et à l'Egypte, les deux autres pays médiateurs dans le conflit qui a dévasté le territoire palestinien, pour presser Israël et le Hamas de reprendre le 15 août des discussions indirectes en vue d'un cessez-le-feu, car "le moment est venu". Sous pression d...
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Washington (AFP) - With less than six months left in office, President Joe Biden and his team are going for bolder, higher-risk diplomacy on both Gaza and Sudan, seeking to make progress on intractable hotspots and -- just maybe -- burnish their legacy. Biden, in an unusually personal appeal, joined the leaders of Egypt and Qatar in not only urging Israel and Hamas to reach a ceasefire but setting a date -- Thursday -- for them to meet in the region. The approach mirrors a public call by Secretary of State Antony Blinken for the warring parties in Sudan to begin negotiations on Wednesday in Sw...
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