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US Military Instructors to Train Armenian Servicemen

Armenian law enforcement officers stand outside a police station during an incident that the country's government said was an attempt to seize the building in Yerevan on March 24, 2024. (Photo by KAREN MINASYAN / AFP)
Armenian law enforcement officers stand outside a police station during an incident that the country's government said was an attempt to seize the building in Yerevan on March 24, 2024. (Photo by KAREN MINASYAN / AFP)
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US Military Instructors to Train Armenian Servicemen

Armenian law enforcement officers stand outside a police station during an incident that the country's government said was an attempt to seize the building in Yerevan on March 24, 2024. (Photo by KAREN MINASYAN / AFP)
Armenian law enforcement officers stand outside a police station during an incident that the country's government said was an attempt to seize the building in Yerevan on March 24, 2024. (Photo by KAREN MINASYAN / AFP)

United States military instructors will train Armenian military servicemen on April 1-5, Armenia's defense ministry said in a statement on Monday.

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in February that Armenia can no longer rely on Russia as its main defense and military partner because Moscow has repeatedly let it down so Yerevan must think about forging closer ties with the United States and France,

Armenia, a former Soviet republic bordered by Georgia, Azerbaijan, Iran and Turkey, has long relied on Russia as a big power ally.

Pashinyan said Armenia should think about what security ties it should build with the United States, France, India and Georgia.

He questioned whether Armenia should remain a member of the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), and said Armenia needed a new national security strategy and would strengthen its army.

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Traffic on French High-Speed Trains Gradually Improving after Sabotage

Workers operate to reconnect the signal box to the track in its technical ducts in Vald' Yerres, near Chartres on July 26, 2024, as France's high-speed rail network was hit by an attack disrupting the transport system, hours before the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. (AFP)
Workers operate to reconnect the signal box to the track in its technical ducts in Vald' Yerres, near Chartres on July 26, 2024, as France's high-speed rail network was hit by an attack disrupting the transport system, hours before the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. (AFP)
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Traffic on French High-Speed Trains Gradually Improving after Sabotage

Workers operate to reconnect the signal box to the track in its technical ducts in Vald' Yerres, near Chartres on July 26, 2024, as France's high-speed rail network was hit by an attack disrupting the transport system, hours before the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. (AFP)
Workers operate to reconnect the signal box to the track in its technical ducts in Vald' Yerres, near Chartres on July 26, 2024, as France's high-speed rail network was hit by an attack disrupting the transport system, hours before the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. (AFP)

Traffic on France's TGV high-speed trains was gradually returning to normal on Saturday after engineers worked overnight repairing sabotaged signal stations and cables that caused travel chaos on Friday, the opening day of the Paris Olympic Games.

In Friday's pre-dawn attacks on the high-speed rail network vandals damaged infrastructure along the lines connecting Paris with cities such as Lille in the north, Bordeaux in the west and Strasbourg in the east. Another attack on the Paris-Marseille line was foiled, French rail operator SNCF said.

There has been no immediate claim of responsibility.

"On the Eastern high-speed line, traffic resumed normally this morning at 6:30 a.m. while on the North, Brittany and South-West high-speed lines, 7 out of 10 trains on average will run with delays of 1 to 2 hours," SNCF said in a statement on Saturday morning.

"At this stage, traffic will remain disrupted on Sunday on the North axis and should improve on the Atlantic axis for weekend returns," it added.

SNCF reiterated that transport plans for teams competing in the Olympics would be guaranteed.