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    Putin 'made mistake' not attending peace summit -Netherlands PM

    STORY: :: Dutch prime minister says Russian President Putin"made a mistake" not attending the Ukraine peace summit:: June 15, 2024:: Mark Rutte, Prime Minister, Netherlands"First, he (Putin) should accept the invitation. I think he made a mistake not being here. This whole process started a year ago with 14-15 national security advisers and here we are today with half of the U.N. and to leaders level in many cases from many countries.":: Buergenstock, Switzerland:: Mette Frederiksen, Prime Minister, Denmark"Well, you can only find a peaceful solution if you have two partners who seek the peace and who want the peace and, unfortunately, Russia and Putin, does not want the peace. Ukraine wants peace. And now we are almost 100 countries supporting a peaceful solution to this conflict. I think it's an important event. It's important for Ukraine. It's important for the entire world, because we need peace in Ukraine and at the same time we need Russia to respect, to accept democracy and Russia is not stronger than the European democracies."World leaders gathered at a Swiss mountain resort to try to build support for Ukraine's peace proposals at the conference skipped by U.S. President Joe Biden, shunned by China and dismissed as a waste of time by Moscow.More than 90 countries are taking part, but China's absence in particular has dimmed hopes the summit would show Russia as globally isolated, while recent military reverses have put Kyiv on the back foot. The war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas has also diverted the world's attention from Ukraine.The talks focus on broader concerns triggered by the war, such as food and nuclear security.

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    Gaza aid pier removed, satellite images show

    STORY: :: Satellite images show that the U.S. military pieron Gaza's coast has been removed:: Maxar Technologies:: June 12, 2024:: June 15, 2024:: An anonymous U.S. official said the militarywas moving it due to anticipated sea conditions:: and that it would likely be moved to the Israeli portof Ashdod until sea conditions improve:: June 12, 2024:: Humanitarian aid had just resumedentering the enclave via the pierThe floating U.S. military pier had just resumed bringing humanitarian aid into the enclave after being suspended over the weekend.

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    French left-wing leaders join anti-far-right protest in Paris

    STORY: :: France's left-wing alliance leaders join thousands inParis protesting against the far-right National Rally (RN):: June 15, 2024:: Ilan Gabet:: Scuffles broke out betweenFrench police and demonstrators:: Ian Brossat, French Communist Party leader"We are here, we are here because we will never entertain the idea that these people will seize power in a country like France, because we will never entertain the idea that racism, that discrimination, on the basis of skin colour, on the basis of religion, can exist in the seventh most powerful economy in the world, France. This country, this country of freedom, this country of equality, this country of fraternity."As many as 100,000 people were expected to turn out at the march, police said.Following the RN's surge in last Sunday's (June 9) European elections, at least 150 marches were expected across France in cities including Marseille, Toulouse, Lyon and Lille.President Emmanuel Macron called a snap legislative election, to be held in two rounds on June 30 and July 7, after his centrist alliance was trounced by the RN.On Thursday (June 13), political parties representing the French left-wing said they had reached an agreement to form a 'Popular Front' to contest the snap parliamentary election.