Donald Trump keeps door open to Putin offer for talks on war
“President Putin said that he wants to meet with me as soon as possible,” Trump said during a speech in Arizona.
“We have to wait for this, but we have to end that war. That war is horrible, horrible,” he added.
Throughout his campaign to seek a second term as president, Trump repeatedly pledged to end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours if elected.
“The number of soldiers being killed… It’s a flat plane, and the bullets are going, and there are powerful bullets, powerful guns. The only thing that’s going to stop them is a human body,” Trump said during his address.
Trump is set to return to the White House in January.
Earlier this month, Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Paris along with French President Emmanuel Macron.
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3 injured in S. Korea”s military explosion accident
The explosion broke out at about 9:27 am local time (00:27 am GMT) at the military unit in Gimhae, around 310 km southeast of the capital Seoul, according to Xinhua.
It was reported that the explosion took place at an oil storage facility.
Three civilian inspectors were wounded and taken to a nearby hospital. Among them, one was classified as a serious but non-life-threatening injury.
No soldier was injured in the accident, the exact cause of which the military authorities were investigating.
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Pope again slams cruelty of Israeli bombing campaign on Gaza
“And with pain, I think of Gaza, of so much cruelty, of the children being machine-gunned, of the bombings of schools and hospitals. What cruelty,” he said during his weekly mass on Sunday.
The remarks came a day after the pontiff denounced an Israeli airstrike that killed at least 25 Palestinians in Gaza, including seven children from the same family, in Jabalia in northern Gaza.
“Yesterday, children were bombed,” he said at the top of his annual Christmas address to the Vatican’s Catholic cardinals. “This is cruelty. This is not war. I wanted to say this because it touches the heart.”
Irked by the Pope’s comments, an Israeli foreign ministry spokesman said they were “particularly disappointing.”
Pope Francis has repeatedly called for a ceasefire in Israel’s bloody aggression on the besieged Gaza Strip.
In his book published recently, he called for scrutiny over whether the situation in Gaza “corresponds to the technical definition” of genocide.
Israel unleashed its brutal Gaza onslaught on October 7, 2023, after the Hamas resistance group carried out its historic operation against the occupying entity in retaliation for its intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.
So far, the Tel Aviv regime has killed at least 45,259 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured 107,627 others.
During its bloody onslaught, Israel has targeted Gaza’s civilian infrastructure, such as schools and hospitals, in blatant violation of international law.
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وزیر خارجه اردن: حامی سوریه هستیم
به گزارش خبرگزاری مهر به نقل از الجزیره، ایمن الصفدی وزیر خارجه اردن در دمشق گفت: آماده حمایت همه جانبه از سوریه هستیم. بازسازی سوریه برای ما و کل منطقه موضوع مهمی است.
وی تاکید کرد: امیدواریم که حکومت جدید همه طیف های سوری را دربرگیرد. ما به سوری ها در عملیات بازسازی کمک خواهیم کرد و حامی همیشگی آنها هستیم.
الصفدی افزود: آوارگان سوری خواهان بازگشت به کشورشان هستند اما بازگشت باید داوطلبانه و به شکل امن باشد. از روند انتقالی در سوریه و تدوین قانون اساسی جدید حمایت می کنیم. حامی ملت سوریه در ساخت کشورشان هستیم.
وی افزود: در سوریه موضوع تروریسم را مورد رایزنی قرار دادم و ما علیه آن متحدهستیم زیرا خطری است که همه ما را تهدید می کند. ما پیام حمایت از سوری ها را رساندیم. احمد الشرع اهمیت روابط سوریه و اردن را می داند و خواهان همکاری است. ما درباره سازوکارهای همکاری را مورد توافق قرار دادیم.
الصفدی گفت: خواهان سوریه امن هستیم و اینکه شرایط برای بازگشت آوارگان مهیا شود. ما بر ضرورت کشوری آزاد بدون تروریسم و حامی همه حقوق سوری ها تاکید کردیم. خواهان نظام سیاسی هستیم که خواسته های سوری ها را برآورده کند.
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