Have you taken a break from the news in the last two days? We summarize the most important information for Saturday, September 30th and Sunday, October 1st.
In the USA, the shutdown was narrowly avoided
On Saturday, three hours before the deadline, the American Congress finally postponed the danger of paralyzing the federal administration, the famous shutdown. After the House of Representatives, the Senate passed an emergency funding measure that would allow the American federal government to continue operating normally for 45 days. Joe Biden signed it immediately. “This is good news,” said the American president. in a press release, But I want to be clear: we should never have been in this situation. »
The development came after Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy earlier on Saturday proposed a last-ditch effort to avert the shutdown, which could only be pushed through with Democratic support. With success: the text was adopted with 335 yes votes (and 91 no votes). In the Senate he received a very large majority of 88 yes votes against 9 no votes.
As soon as the Senate vote was announced, Mr. Biden called on Congress to quickly approve aid to Ukraine, which the Republican speaker had excluded from the emergency funding measure. The White House had unsuccessfully asked that the finance bill passed by elected officials include $24 billion in military and humanitarian aid for Kyiv.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announces that an emergency funding measure from the US government has been passed. In Congress, in Washington, September 30, 2023. ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP Read also: Article reserved for our subscribers In the United States, aid to Ukraine is paying the price of an extreme agreement in Congress on its funding
In Turkey, two police officers were slightly injured in a suicide attack in Ankara near parliament
An explosion occurred in the center of the Turkish capital Ankara on Sunday. The targeted district is close to the parliament and is home to numerous ministries. The Turkish Interior Ministry immediately described the explosion as a “terrorist attack.”
“At around 9:30 a.m. two terrorists showed up in a light military vehicle. [8 h 30, heure de Paris] “We carried out a bomb attack in front of the entrance gate of the General Directorate of Security of our Interior Ministry,” said Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya. “One of the terrorists blew himself up and the other was neutralized. “Two of our police officers were slightly injured by the flames caused by the explosion,” Mr. Yerlikaya said on X (formerly Twitter).
“The terrorists will never achieve their goals,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan replied in front of parliament shortly after the explosion. Hours later, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) claimed responsibility for the attack.
Turkish police officers stand guard near the parliament after the suicide attack in Ankara, October 1, 2023. CAGLA GURDOGAN / Portal Read also: In Turkey, the suicide attack in Ankara is claimed by Kurdistan party workers
In Poland, an anti-government demonstration gathers “around a million” opponents
“Around a million people” gathered in central Warsaw on Sunday at the start of a large anti-government march, the city hall said. “This is absolutely the largest demonstration in the history of Warsaw,” City Hall spokeswoman Monika Beuth told Agence France-Presse.
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“I want to tell you that there are more than a million of us,” Donald Tusk, leader of the centrist Civic Platform (PO) bloc, told protesters. It is “the largest political demonstration in the history of Poland” and “the largest political gathering in the world today”. “We are Poles!” he chanted at the end of this demonstration, which was called the “March of Million Hearts”.
Opposition leader Donald Tusk speaks to the crowd gathered for the Million Hearts March in Warsaw, Poland on October 1, 2023. MACIEK JAZWIECKI/AGENCJA WYBORCZA.PL / AGENCJA WYBORCZA.PL VIA Portal Read also: In Poland there are “around a million” opponents demonstrating against the government
Almost the entire Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh has fled the enclave
After the defeat of separatist forces against Azerbaijan, an overwhelming majority of the Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh left the territory: more than 100,000 refugees have already arrived in Armenia, said Nazeli Baghdassarian, spokesman for Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
According to official figures, around 120,000 Armenians lived in the enclave before the dissolution of this self-proclaimed separatist republic was announced on Thursday, September 28, a week after the victorious offensive by Azerbaijani forces, which was one of the oldest “frozen conflicts” in the country former USSR.
“There are at most a few hundred civil servants, rescue workers, volunteers and people with special needs left who are also preparing to leave,” the former Upper East African rights ombudsman wrote on X (formerly Twitter). Karabakh, Artak Beglarian, stating that this information is “not official.” Within days, more than 80% of residents left their homes fearing reprisals, despite calls from Azerbaijan to remain in the area.
Nagorno-Karabakh residents take a bus to Armenia on October 1, 2023. EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP Read also: Nagorno-Karabakh: Most of the enclave’s Armenian population has fled
Slovakia is on the verge of slipping into the pro-Russian camp, which poses a threat to the conduct of a unified European policy in the war in Ukraine
According to the almost final results announced on Sunday, October 1, the national-populist party Smer-SD (smer: “Leadership”) came first with almost 23% of the vote. Its leader Robert Fico has a good chance of becoming prime minister again, having held the post twice between 2006 and 2018.
Mr. Fico, 59, campaigned throughout his campaign on a promise to align the foreign policy of this Central European country of 5.5 million people with that of neighboring Hungary. His program therefore says to “reject military aid to Ukraine” because it “only prolongs the conflict,” to oppose “sanctions that harm Europe more than Russia,” or to “normalize relations” with Moscow. .
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The candidate denies being “pro-Russian” and asserts that he wants Slovakia to remain a member of the European Union and NATO, but his likely return to power will be subject to the policies of the pro-Western government, which is committed to this had decided to put an end to it so far as to hand over the Slovak army’s MiG-29 to Ukraine. On Sunday, Fico said Slovakia’s foreign policy orientation would not change because “by nature we are members of the EU.” “Of course that doesn’t mean that I can’t criticize things within the EU that I don’t like,” he clarified.
SMER-SD party leader Robert Fico speaks during a news conference after the early parliamentary elections in Bratislava, capital of Slovakia, October 1, 2023. RADOVAN STOKLASA / Portal
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