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One of China's top military leaders took a harsh line on regional territorial disputes, telling an international naval gathering in northeastern China on Monday that the country would strike back with force if its interests came under threat.The 19th biennial meeting of the Western Pacific Naval Symposium opened in Qingdao, where China’s northern naval force is based, providing a vivid backdrop to China's massive military expansion over the past two decades that has seen it build or refurbish three aircraft carriers.CHINA'S MILITARY TARGETS AMERICAN TROOPS, VETERANS FOR EXPLOITATION CAMPAIGN, GENERAL SAYSThe two-day talks have drawn representatives from partners and competitors including Australia, Cambodia, Chile, France, India and the U.S. and comes amid heightened tensions over Chin...

The lower house of Switzerland's parliament followed in the Senate's footsteps Wednesday in voting to approve a ban on the public display, wearing and use of Nazi and other extremist, racist symbols.A multiparty coalition overcame opposition from the right-wing Swiss People's Party to advance the legislation."Today in Switzerland, it's possible — even permitted — to fly a flag with a swastika on the balcony. It's possible to fly a flag with the image of the ‘SS’ on the windshield of your car. It's possible to make a Hitler salute in the public space," Green lawmaker Raphael Mahaim said in a debate leading up to the vote. "This situation is intolerable."The lower house of Swiss parliament on Wednesday followed in the footsteps of the Senate, or upper house, in approving a measure that w...

Valérie Hayer, tête de liste pour le camp présidentiel pour les élections européennes de juin 2024, Raphaël Glucksmann, tête de la liste du Parti socialiste et de Place publique, et Manon Aubry, tête de la liste de La France insoumise, lors d’un débat organisé par le think tank Shift Project, à Angers, le 16 avril 2024. DAMIEN MEYER / AFP La thématique du climat et de la transition écologique n’est pas totalement absente de la campagne des élections européennes. Mais, contrairement à 2019, elle est soit largement occultée par les questions de géopolitique et de défense liées à la guerre en Ukraine et à Gaza, soit instrumentalisée par l’extrême droite climatosceptique, comme lors de la crise agricole. Lire aussi | ...

BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian police shut down a gathering of far-right politicians and supporters on Tuesday, citing concerns about public order, while attendees protested curbs on free speech and vowed to find another venue for Day 2.The annual National Conservative conference, held this year in Brussels, comes ahead of Europe-wide elections. As campaigning for the June 6-9 event heats up, mainstream parties fear that disenchanted voters might turn to the people at NatCon 2024.BELGIAN POLICE ARREST ADULT, 3 MINORS IN PLOT TO ATTACK CONCERT HALL"This is what we’re up against. We’re up against a new form of evil ideology," Nigel Farage, the man credited with taking Britain out of the European Union, told the gathering of a few hundred stridently nationalist and fundamentalist Christian polit...

Deux ans après le début de la guerre à grande échelle, la dynamique du soutien occidental à Kiev est en perte de vitesse : les aides nouvellement engagées sont en baisse sur la période d’août 2023 à janvier 2024 par rapport à la même période de l’année précédente, selon le dernier rapport de l’Institut Kiel, publié en février 2024. Et cette tendance pourrait se poursuivre, le Sénat américain peinant à faire voter des aides, et l’Union européenne (UE) ayant eu toutes les difficultés à faire adopter une aide de 50 milliards le 1er février 2024, du fait du blocage hongrois. A noter, ces deux paquets d’aide ne sont pas encore pris en compte dans le dernier bilan fait par l’Institut Kiel, qui s’arrête en janvier 2024.Les données de l’institu...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's move to sign into law the results of a recent referendum laying claim to two-thirds of Guyana triggered fierce condemnation Thursday from the neighboring South American country's government.The text of the law was not immediately made public. Even so, Guyana’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs vowed not to yield any land to Venezuela and called the move targeting Guyana’s western Essequibo region an "egregious violation of the most fundamental principles of international law."VIDEO OF GUYANA’S PRESIDENT SNAPPING BACK AT BBC REPORTER’S CLIMATE QUIZ GOES VIRAL: ‘LET ME STOP YOU’In early December, Maduro held a referendum to claim sovereignty over the oil- and mineral-rich region that represents two-thirds of Guyana, arguing it was...

Un jeune Ukrainien fait des exercices dans le centre-ville d’Odessa, le 18 mars 2024. RAFAEL YAGHOBZADEH POUR « LE MONDE » Le président ukrainien, Volodymyr Zelensky, a signé, mardi 2 avril, une série de dispositions visant à élargir et à améliorer les capacités de mobilisation de l’armée alors que cette dernière est en difficulté le long de la ligne de front. La plus importante concerne le passage de l’âge des Ukrainiens appelés à combattre, de 27 à 25 ans. La signature du président était attendue depuis dix mois après un vote du texte à la majorité de la Verkhovna Rada, le Parlement, à la fin de mai 2023. Lire aussi | En direct, guerre en Ukraine : après le raid de drones au Tatarstan, l’ONU demande l’arrêt du b...

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — President Felix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday appointed the country's first female prime minister, fulfilling a campaign promise and making an important step towards the formation of a new government after being reelected late last year.Former planning minister Judith Suminwa Tuluka will step into the role at a time of worsening violence in the country's mineral-rich east, which borders Rwanda. The long-running conflict has displaced more than 7 million people according to the United Nations, making it one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.CONGO BRINGING BACK DEATH PENALTY AS VIOLENCE, MILITANT ATTACKS SURGETuluka promised to work toward peace and development in her first speech following her appointment on state television. Stil...

A journalist on a reporting trip in a Ural Mountains city. A corporate security executive traveling to Moscow for a wedding. A dual national returning to her hometown in Tatarstan to visit her family.All of them are U.S. citizens, and all are behind bars in Russia on charges of varying severity.Arrests of Americans in Russia have become increasingly common as relations between Moscow and Washington sink to Cold War lows. Washington accuses Moscow of targeting its citizens and using them as political bargaining chips, but Russian officials insist they all broke the law.SIX RUSSIAN JOURNALISTS HAVE BEEN DETAINED BY AUTHORITIES. THEY INCLUDE ONE WHO COVERED NAVALNYSome have been exchanged for Russians held in the U.S., while for others, the prospects of being released in a swap are less c...

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