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Added on the 28/08/2013 10:15:00 - Copyright : AFP EN
Member states of the global chemical weapons watchdog vote to strip Syria of its rights at the organisation in an unprecedented step after a probe blamed Damascus for poison gas attacks. SOUNDBITE announcing the adoption of the resolution
The United States says it would resume sales of offensive weapons to Saudi Arabia, several years after they were suspended over human rights concerns in Yemen. Since the freeze, and with a truce holding in Yemen, Saudi Arabia has "met their end of the deal, and we are prepared to meet ours," State Department spokesman Vedant Patel tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
The United States says it welcomes South Africa's promise to probe allegations of arms shipments to Russia after Washington angered Pretoria by going public with a charge of covert weapons. "It certainly would be a welcome step," State Department spokesman Vedant Patel tells reporters of the promise of a probe made by a spokesman for President Cyril Ramaphosa. SOUNDBITE
Images of the headquarters of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) before its 28th Conference of States Parties in the Hague, Netherlands. IMAGES
US President Joe Biden says that NATO would "respond" if Russian President Vladimir Putin used a chemical weapon in his war on Ukraine. SOUNDBITE
Two WHO experts, Marion Koopmans and Peter Daszak, leave their hotel at the end of the organisation's mission to Wuhan. The probe concluded without finding the source of the coronavirus that has killed more than 2.3 million worldwide. IMAGES