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US Announces Fresh Iran Sanctions Over Support for Russia

par This Is Beirut, 22/02 22:36 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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The White House announced, on Thursday, that the United States will soon enact fresh sanctions against Iran due to its support for Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The United States will soon impose new sanctions on Iran over its backing of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the White House said Thursday. "In response to Iran's ongoing support for ...

European Union to Face Unprecedented Challenges

par Rami Rayess, 21/02 18:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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Even if the Russian-Ukrainian war has united Europe behind it, this does not mean that the old continent has overcome the many obstacles and issues that at times threaten to disintegrate and fragment it, contrary to what the early Europeans aspired to when they launched the unification project, which has made significant and historic ...

New EU Sanctions Against China, N. Korea Amidst War on Ukraine

par This Is Beirut, 21/02 15:11 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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The EU on Wednesday agreed to ban exports to three mainland Chinese firms and blacklist North Korea's defense minister in new sanctions for the second anniversary of Russia's war on Ukraine, officials said. The fresh round of measures -- the 13th since Russian President Vladimir Putin's February 2022 invasion -- overall targets some two hundred ...

Russia Arrests US-Russia Woman for 'Treason'

par This Is Beirut, 20/02 13:11 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Russia's FSB security services said on Tuesday it had arrested a US-Russian woman suspected of treason for raising funds for the Ukrainian army. The FSB in the central Urals city of Yekaterinburg said it had "suppressed the illegal activities" of a 33-year-old woman, a resident of Los Angeles with dual citizenship, and taken her into custody. It ...

Alexei Navalny: The Symptomatic Assassination of an Icon

19/02 09:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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The assassination of dissident leader Alexei Navalny is no fait divers. It brings us back to picture the nightmares of the deaths of the Gulag convicts, the “banality of evil” (Banalität des Bösen) and the steadfastness of the internal opposition to Vladimir Putin. It highlights the deep-seated fears of the cynical and bloody autocrat and ...

Three Killed in Shelling in Russian-Held East Ukraine

par This Is Beirut, 17/02 10:13 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Three people, including a girl, were killed and four others injured after Ukraine shelled the Russian-occupied region of Donetsk on Saturday, a Moscow-installed local official said. Both Moscow and Kyiv have accused each other of a sharp escalation in attacks targeting civilian areas over the past three months, amid intense fighting on the ...

Ukraine Reinforces Embattled Avdiivka Amid ‘Fierce’ Fighting

par This Is Beirut, 16/02 16:29 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Ukraine said on Friday that it was sending more reinforcements to the frontline city of Avdiivka, a main target for Moscow, ahead of the second anniversary of the Russian invasion. Facing a shortage of ammunition and being outnumbered on the battlefield, Ukraine may be forced to withdraw from the eastern town, which has become a symbol of ...

NATO Chief: US Aid Blockage Hurts Ukraine

par This Is Beirut, 15/02 11:52 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday that a delay in passing new US aid for Ukraine was already hurting Kyiv's forces on the battlefield against Russia. "We see the impact already of the fact that the US has not been able to make a decision, but I expect the US to be able to make a decision, that the Congress and the House of ...

US Senate Approves $95 Billion Aid Bill

par This Is Beirut, 13/02 20:01 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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The US Senate approved a bill on Tuesday that would provide Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan with a total amount of $95 billion in financial aid, amid claims of the importance of adopting an isolationist stance first and foremost. The US Senate on Tuesday approved long-delayed funding for Ukraine's war effort, part of a foreign aid package that ...

Russia's Defeat Is 'Impossible'

par Ici Beyrouth, 09/02 15:21 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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With Vladimir Putin claiming that Russia's defeat is"impossible," and the West being aware of this, the politically paralyzed US Congress finally agreed to consider legislation that would release billions of dollars for Ukraine. For his part, Volodymyr Zelensky appointed a new military chief and tasked him with producing a "realistic" battle plan ...

Deadly Strike in Occupied Eastern Ukraine Kills 28 People

par This Is Beirut, 04/02 13:28 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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A strike on a bakery in the Russian-occupied city of Lysychansk in eastern Ukrainian has killed 28 people, including a child, Russian rescuers said Sunday. Moscow's occupation forces on Saturday said Kyiv had targeted a bakery that is popular on weekends. Lysychansk is a city in the occupied Lugansk region that fell to Russian forces after some ...

Questions Arise Over Russia's Plane Crash Narrative

par This Is Beirut, 26/01 13:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Uncertainties persisted on Thursday surrounding the military plane crash that Russia claimed resulted in the deaths of numerous captured Ukrainian soldiers ahead of a planned prisoner exchange, with Moscow and Kyiv trading accusations at the UN Security Council. Russia blamed Ukrainian forces for downing the IL-76 transport plane over the ...

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