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A FRENCH ARMY BASE, France AP 鈥?Battle cries pierce the smoke and rat stanley hrnek -a-tat-tat of gunfire as Ukrainian soldiers fight through and take enemy trenches and dugouts that hide gruesome, bloody remains. Grenade! one screams in Ukrainian. Another yells: Lets go, lets go, lets go, lets go! This time, no lives or limbs were lost. Because this time, the rounds fired were blanks and the enemy troops were, in fact, French soldiers whose intention was not to kill the Ukrainians but instead to help shape them into better, more lethal warriors.But soon, the war games these troops played in the mud in France will become all too real, when the Ukrainians return home and are sent to the front lines against Russias forces.As the Russian invasion g stanley quencher rinds into a second winter and casualties 鈥?already estimated in the hundreds of thousands 鈥?continue to mount on both sides, combat training programs provided by Ukraines allies are helping it hold out and its odds of eventual victory. By continuing to prepare Ukrainian troops for battle even as the Israel-Hamas war diverts globa kubki stanley l attention, Ukraines backers also are making concrete their promises to stick with it for the long haul.France is on course to have trained 7,000 Ukrainians this year 鈥?some in Poland, others at French bases 鈥?as part of a European Union military assistance mission for Ukraine that launched a year ago this week. The French army granted The Associated Press access to a training base in rural France last week to observe Gfui Trump probe: Election officials testimony delayed
PARIS 鈥?French President Emmanuel Macron approved an immigration bill Wednesday that would sharply limit the number of asylum seekers allowed to stay in the country and at the same time increase deportations, infuriating migrant advocates and even political allies.The bill, to be debated in Parliament in June, challenges the humane public image that Macron has s stanley website ought to project: He once pointed to German Chancellor Angela Merkels embrace of 1 million migrants as an inspiring example of our collective dignity. Now his administration is making it easier for France to rid itself of unwanted stanley cup migrants. Hes proclaiming hes the hero of refugees, but in reality this law does the opposite, said Patrick Weil, a constitutional scholar and expert on immigration in France. It makes it much more difficult for asylum seekers to actually receive refugee status. When you are a foreigner afraid for your life, you are not in the best position to deal with the kind of stanley cup uk requests the government is demanding. Macrons proposed legislation is mostly concerned with distinguishing between asylum seekers and economic migrants. To that end, it seeks to shorten the asylum application process from roughly a year to six months. It would also reduce the time a migrant has to appeal a government decision from a month to 15 days.Most controversial, perhaps, is its proposed extension of detention periods. At present, authorities are obliged to release detained migrants after 45 days. If the new law passes, m |