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Germany's Merz visits Kyiv as Russia steps up attacks on Ukrainian cities

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz arrived in Ukraine's capital Kyiv on Sunday on an unannounced visit in a show of support for the country in its war with Russia. Merz's visit comes just a day after Russia warned foreigners and diplomats to leave the Ukrainian capital, saying that "massive" new airstrikes would hit the city. FRANCE 24's correspondent in Kyiv Gulliver Cragg has more.

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Germany's Merz arrives in Kyiv to pledge more support

Chancellor Friedrich Merz is expected to announce new measures to support Ukraine, including military aid and plans for the joint production of drones. A Kyiv bridge was struck by a Russian drone during Merz's visit.

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Latvia's PM on track to lead pro-Ukraine coalition after parliamentary election victory

Latvian ​Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs was set to retain power and form a coalition after his centrist United List won parliamentary elections on Sunday, the biggest in the country's post-independence history. While the result is expected to reinforce the Baltic country’s pro-European and pro-Ukrainian stance, populist parties also made significant gains.

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Florian Louis: "The idea that imperialism had disappeared in 1991 was ethnocentric"

Donald Trump's vision of the North Atlantic, China's claim to Taiwan, Russia's large-scale invasion of Ukraine: are there any resurgence of imperialism, which was thought to be over with the decolonization and fall of the USSR? This is the observation of the recent book "World history of imperialisms from the 19th to the 21st centuries" (PUF editions) co-directed by Nicolas Beaupré and historian Florian Louis, guest of Au Cœur de l'Info

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Ukraine: Second Kiev bridge hit by Russian strikes · Global Voices

Russia once again called on diplomats and foreigners in Kiev to leave the city on Saturday, 3 October, warning that its forces will continue to carry out "massive reprisals" against the Ukrainian capital, repeatedly targeted for weeks. A new large bridge was struck there on Saturday morning after a Friday day marked by huge traffic jams in much of the city, created by several Russian drone attacks on another structure to cross the Dnieper. Analysis by David Delos, international columnist at Fra

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"Goodbye my Russia": a historian looking for his father and a beloved country

Nicolas Werth, a specialist in the history of the USSR, gives himself in a personal book entitled "Goodbye my Russia". The president of the association Mémorial France confronts his path, that of a historian who was hit by the Russian invasion in Ukraine, and that of his father, also a historian, who committed suicide the day after the crash in the spring of Prague.

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Ukraine: Second big Kiev bridge hit by Russian strikes · Global Voices

A large bridge in the Ukrainian capital was hit by Russian strikes, the second in a few days. After the South Bridge, targeted on Thursday and Friday, the North Bridge suffered damage on Saturday, including on the trolleybus roadway and cables. In parallel, Moscow once again called on foreigners to leave Kiev and threatened new "massive reprisal strikes".

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Superprofit tax, lower climate bonds? EU wants to fight expensive oil

It's not good to take his car. Not because of traffic jams, but because of the price of gasoline that has never been so high in Europe. In a geopolitical context as tense as ever – in the Middle East and Ukraine – the cost of a litre of gasoline is breaking record, as is the cost of diesel.

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