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Les 27 élèves décédés dans les bousculades et l’incendie survenus le 10 septembre à Bukavu, dans la province du Sud-Kivu, ont été inhumés ce lundi 14 septembre au cimetière Ruzizi. Plusieurs acteurs sociopolitiques ont pris part à la cérémonie et appelé au renforcement des mesures de prévention et de protection face à la multiplication des incendies dans la ville.

Over the last five years, as AUKUS has taken shape, the dynamics behind regional security have continued to evolve.

L’ordonnance présidentielle instituant le Comité d’organisation préliminaire du dialogue national suscite des réactions au sein de la classe politique et de la société civile en République démocratique du Congo.

Il avait été nommé en 2024 par le gouvernement du président libertarien Javier Milei : le controversé Santiago Muzio a finalement démissionné de la direction de la Maison de l'Argentine, située sur le campus de la Cité internationale universitaire à Paris. Il était accusé d'expulsions présumées de résidents, du retrait d'une plaque rendant hommage aux disparus de la dictature argentine et d'avoir organisé des réunions d'extrême droite.

Environ 12 % du commerce mondial de pétrole par voie maritime transite par le détroit de Bab el-Mandeb. Le détroit d'Ormuz étant fortement perturbé par la guerre, les alliés de l'Iran menacent de perturber davantage le commerce mondial en fermant cette deuxième voie maritime cruciale au Moyen-Orient.

US President Donald Trump has said that Russia and Ukraine have agreed not to target each other's energy facilities, a day after he criticized Kyiv for hitting Russian oil refineries.

Today, under Operation Economic Outcast, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated prominent Russian financial institution, VTB Bank Public Joint Stock Company (VTB Bank) for its involvement in Iranian sanctions evasion, including establishing correspondent relationships with sanctioned Iranian banks.

The United States has imposed new sanctions on Russia's VTB Bank, accusing one of the country's largest lenders of helping Iran evade US sanctions through banking relationships and payment arrangements.

Independent UN human rights investigators called for an immediate cessation of hostilities on Monday following a series of United States airstrikes on Iran in recent weeks that have killed civilians as tensions ripple through the region.

The UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran today urged all parties to the ongoing regional conflict to abide strictly by international law and cease hostilities, following a series of deadly US airstrikes in southern Iran. The strikes, which hit a wedding celebration and a residential home, killed and injured civilian families, including women and children, from already marginalised minority communities.

Andrei Samuilovski, 32, who has citizenship in Estonia, Switzerland, and Russia, pleaded guilty today in connection with a scheme to illegally export U.S.-origin aviation and aerospace parts to Russia in violation of U.S. sanctions.

The US House of Representatives could take up a sweeping Russia and Iran sanctions bill as soon as September 15, Republican Congressman Joe Wilson of South Carolina told RFE/RL.

"In his speech on nuclear deterrence doctrine, given on March 2nd at Île Longue, the President of the French Republic has expressed the European dimension of France's vital interests, and articulated to that effect the concept of Forward Deterrence."

The first two of the four MQ-9B "SkyGuardian" drones Taiwan purchased from the United States underwent their first flight tests at an air base in eastern Taiwan early Monday, a source familiar with the matter told CNA.

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei has dismissed US allegations of Iran's involvement in a recent attack from Iraqi soil that struck Saudi Arabia's East-West oil pipeline, saying that Washington is making false claims to deepen disputes between regional countries and complicate the situation.

The U.S. Coast Guard and Royal Canadian Navy conducted a third combined sail through the Bering Sea in support of Operation TUNDRA MERLIN, Sept. 8-9, demonstrating their ability to defend North America's Arctic maritime approaches.

The Coast Guard awarded a $173.7 million contract to The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company to advance a major modernization of Base Seattle, strengthening the shore infrastructure needed to homeport and sustain the Service's future polar security cutters.

The U.S. Coast Guard commissioned its newest Fast Response Cutter, Coast Guard Cutter Jeffrey Palazzo (WPC 1163), during a ceremony in New York City on Sept. 12. The event marked the ship's entry into active service.

The United States Coast Guard today announces the initial release of Navita™, a new digital platform designed to streamline the application and issuance of merchant mariner credentials.