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Ukraine accepts US ceasefire proposal, backs immediate negotiations with Russia
12 March 2025
Ukraine backed a US proposal for a 30-day ceasefire on Tuesday after nine hour-long talks between the two countries in Saudi Arabia, prompting the US to end its pause on aid and opening the door to immediate negotiations with Russia.
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Italy and Libya's murky migrant deals
11 March 2025
Opposition groups in Italy are accusing the government of freeing the head of Libya's judicial police because it relies on Libyan security forces to check the flow of African migrants crossing the Mediterranean. Osama Njeem was released despite being wanted by the International Criminal Court over a string of human rights abuses, including murder, torture and rape. FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney speaks to Lorenzo Kamel, Author and Professor of History at the University of Turin.
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Tina Khidasheli: 'Without transatlantic dialogue, there is no security for Europe or for the world'
11 March 2025
Ukraine has endorsed an American proposal for a 30-day ceasefire and agreed to immediate negotiations with Russia in crunch talks in Jeddah after three years of grinding war. For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective, FRANCE 24's François Picard welcomes Tina Khidasheli, Jurist, Chairperson at Civic IDEA think tank and former Minister of Defence of Georgia.
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The ceasefire proposal is 'excellent for Ukraine', analyst says
11 March 2025
FRANCE 24's Mark Owen speaks to Kristine Berzina, Managing Director of Geostrategy North at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. She says that the ceasefire proposal agreed by the Ukrainian and US delegations in Riyadh is 'excellent for Ukraine' by regaining intelligence sharing and weapons support from US, and by putting the ball into Russia's court.
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Rubio says 'ball now in court' of Russia to accept Ukraine truce
11 March 2025
The Ukrainian presidency's chief of staff Andriy Yermak said on Tuesday that Russia must show "very clearly" it wants peace in Ukraine following talks with the US in Saudi Arabia. "Ukraine welcomes this proposal, we consider it positive, we are ready to take such a step. The United States of America has to convince Russia to do this," Zelensky said of the proposed truce in his evening address. FRANCE 24's Gulliver Cragg reports from Kyiv.
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The scramble for Greenland: can Danish dependency resist Trump pressure?
11 March 2025
It's got a population smaller than Paris’ Latin Quarter, but thanks to Donald Trump, the whole world’s watching Greenland. As citizens of the Arctic Danish dependency choose between six main parties, all pro-independence to varying degrees, we’ll ask how locals voting in parliamentary elections feel about the US president promising Congress to get the mineral-rich island ‘one way or another.’
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Zelensky says US must now 'convince' Russia to accept ceasefire proposal
11 March 2025
The Trump administration lifted its suspension of military aid and intelligence sharing for Ukraine, and Kyiv signaled that it was open to a 30-day ceasefire in the war with Russia, pending Moscow’s agreement, American and Ukrainian officials said Tuesday following talks in Saudi Arabia. Guardian Washington bureau chief David Smith reports.
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In Jeddah, US 'cajoling' Ukraine into accepting concessions, no mention of Russia offering anything
11 March 2025
Ukraine said talks with the United States in Saudi Arabia began "very constructively", with a partial ceasefire with Russia on the table hours after Kyiv conducted its largest drone attack on Moscow in three years of war. For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective on Russia's war on Ukraine and Trump's efforts to bring an swift end to the brutal 3-year conflict, FRANCE 24's Delano D'Souza welcomes Dr. Patrick Bury, Senior Lecturer in Security in the Politics, Languages & Int'l Studies Department, at the University of Bath, specialising in warfare and counter-terrorism.
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Man arrested on suspicion of manslaughter after fiery crash in North Sea
11 March 2025
Fires were still raging on Tuesday after a cargo ship, earlier thought to be laden with toxic chemicals, slammed into a tanker carrying flammable jet fuel in the North Sea, triggering fears of an environmental disaster. British police said they had arrested a man on suspicion of manslaughter.
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Ukraine to present US with partial truce proposal during Saudi talks
11 March 2025
Ukraine will present the United States on Tuesday with a plan for a partial ceasefire with Russia, hoping to restore support from its key benefactor, which under President Donald Trump has demanded concessions to end the three-year war.
