The mayor of Froun says his village lies entirely outside the so-called Yellow Line, Israel’s self-declared buffer zone in southern Lebanon The mayor of a southern Lebanese village has questioned Israel’s reported withdrawal plan that came as part of an initial agreement reached in Washington. In an interview with RT, Hassan Adel Bazzi said that the community of Froun was designated as a pilot withdrawal zone despite never being occupied by Israeli forces. Last week, West Jerusalem and the Lebanese government signed a US-brokered deal for the gradual withdrawal of Israeli forces, pending Hezbollah’s disarmament. As part of a broader arrangement, Israel is reportedly planning to establish so-called ‘experimental zones’ in certain parts of southern Lebanon, from which the Israeli army would pull back first in order to allow Lebanese forces to dislodge Hezbollah fighters. The militant...
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Kiev won’t join the bloc as long as it honors nationalists who massacred up to 100,000 ethnic Poles during World War II, Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz has said Ukraine will face significant problems joining the EU as long as it continues to honor Stepan Bandera, a World War II-era Nazi collaborator whose followers carried out the ethnic cleansing of tens of thousands of Poles, Polish Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz has said. In an interview with Polsat News on Monday, Kosiniak-Kamysz blasted Ukraine over its glorification of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), the group that Bandera led, and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). Both groups collaborated with Nazi Germany and massacred up to 100,000 ethnic Poles, mostly women, children, and the elderly, in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia in 1943-1944. Read more ...
Audrey Pulvar has hit back at Americans mocking France’s limited use of air conditioning A Paris deputy mayor has blamed the US for helping fuel the record-breaking heatwave that has swept France and much of Europe, saying Americans bear significant responsibility for the climate change driving the deadly temperatures. The remarks come as Europe endured a record-breaking heatwave. France’s public health agency said on Sunday that at least 1,300 excess deaths had been recorded since June 21, warning that the final toll could be higher. French media have reported that the surge in deaths has left some morgues struggling to cope. In a social media post published on Monday, Audrey Pulvar, Paris’ deputy mayor for international relations, hit back after American journalists, tourists and social media influencers mocked Paris for lacking air conditioning during temperatures exceeding 40...
The US is breaching the interim peace deal with Iran by allowing Israeli forces to maintain their occupation of the neighboring country, Mohammad Marandi says Israel’s military presence in southern Lebanon reflects its broader territorial ambitions and shows that the US is failing to uphold its commitments under the interim peace deal with Iran, Tehran-based Professor Seyed Mohammad Marandi told RT. Iran and the US reached a tentative agreement earlier this month. Tehran demanded that Israel withdraw from southern Lebanon. Last week, West Jerusalem and the Lebanese government signed a US-brokered deal for the gradual withdrawal of Israeli forces pending Hezbollah’s disarmament. Both Washington and Tehran have offered conflicting interpretations of the deal in recent days, exchanging strikes on Friday and accusing each other of violating its terms. Hezbollah rejected the Israel-Lebanon agreement...
The EU’s latest moves targeting Ukrainian male refugees show Kiev’s position is worse than advertised, Sonja van den Ende has told RT Western media and politicians are misleading the public by hyping Kiev’s attacks on Russia while ignoring the devastating losses suffered by Ukrainian forces, independent Dutch journalist Sonja van den Ende has told RT. In an interview on Sunday, van den Ende argued that while headlines are dominated by Ukrainian strikes on Russian fuel refineries, which are presented as signs of Moscow’s weakness, there is little coverage of Kiev’s military casualties. “About 2 million dead soldiers or dead servicemen from Ukraine. So this is not, this is not really headlines,” she stated, emphasizing that such figures are buried deep in articles if mentioned at all by Western outlets. Read more ...
Warsaw is inclined to drop a trillion-euro demand in exchange for annual payments to dying WWII survivors, Suddeutsche Zeitung has reported Poland has scaled back its long-standing reparations campaign against Germany and is now seeking annual payments of around €2,333 ($2,660) for each living victim of Nazi persecution instead of the €1.3 trillion it once demanded, Suddeutsche Zeitung reported on Sunday. The dispute traces back to the September 1939 Nazi invasion of Poland and nearly six years of occupation that killed around 6 million Polish citizens – 17% of the country’s prewar population. In 2022, the Polish government, led by the right-wing Law and Justice party, demanded €1.3 trillion in war reparations. Berlin vehemently rejected the demand as “legally resolved once and for all,” arguing that Poland’s communist-era government waived further claims in 19...