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France’s Socialists and Greens will not participate in further talks with President Emmanuel Macron to find a way out of political deadlock, their leaders said on Tuesday, calling on their supporters to hold peaceful protests instead. Macron slammed the door on a potential leftist government on Monday, saying it
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French President Emmanuel Macron hosted far-right figurehead Marine Le Pen for rare talks Monday, as pressure mounts for him to finally name a prime minister after July’s inconclusive parliamentary poll. The three-time National Rally (RN) presidential candidate called after the meeting for an extraordinary session of parliament so MPs
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At least five Secret Service agents have been placed on modified duty after the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump in July, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press. They include the special agent in charge of the Pittsburgh field office and three other agents assigned to that
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French President Emmanuel Macron was Friday to begin a round of thorny consultations with political leaders, hoping to cobble together a viable ruling coalition after last month’s inconclusive election. A full six weeks after a snap election in which Macron lost his parliamentary majority, he has still not named
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Bangladesh’s interim government revoked the diplomatic passport of ousted premier Sheikh Hasina on Thursday, after she fled a student-led uprising earlier this month. The interior ministry said in a statement that Hasina’s passport, as well as those belonging to former government ministers and ex-lawmakers no longer in their
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Iran’s hardline parliament on Wednesday approved all members of reformist President Masoud Pezeshkian’s Cabinet, the first time in over two decades a leader has been able to get all of his officials through the body. All 19 officials won approval in an afternoon vote, the first time that’
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The politically divisive White House race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump has also highlighted a marked voting divergence between women and men, according to polling data and analysts. Democrat Harris, who is of Black and South Asian descent, is vying to be the United States’s first woman president,
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Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, who has claimed he defeated Nicolas Maduro in last month’s election, said Monday he was ready to negotiate a transition — and asked the incumbent to “step aside.” “Mr. Nicolas Maduro, respect what all Venezuelans have decided... You and your government should step
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Thousands of Indian junior doctors on Monday refused to end protests over the rape and murder of a fellow medic, disrupting hospital services nearly a week since they launched a nation-wide action demanding safer workplace and swift criminal action. Doctors across the country have held protests and declined to see
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered on Friday support to the interim leader of neighboring Bangladesh, who took power after New Delhi’s autocratic ally Sheikh Hasina was ousted. The comments were made following a phone call between Modi and Bangladesh’s Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, who is heading the
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Within a week of unseating Bangladesh’s longest-serving prime minister, the students who drove out Sheikh Hasina were directing Dhaka’s traffic. Decked out in neon vests, their university IDs slung around their necks, they clutch sticks and umbrellas to wave cars this way and that, filling the void after
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Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council President Faiq Zidane met with Venezuela’s Ambassador Arturo Anibal Gallegos Ramirez on Tuesday in Baghdad to discuss relations between the two countries. According to a statement from the Supreme Judicial Council, Zidane and Ramirez explored ways to strengthen cooperation in the judicial field, the
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The success of the Olympic Games has surpassed the wildest dreams of many in France but in the next weeks President Emmanuel Macron still will have to face the reality of the deadlocked politics created by his calling of snap legislative elections. With the Games just around the corner, the
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Four internally displaced people were killed and many others were injured on Sunday in Yemen’s central province of Marib when torrential rains and high winds pounded their tents. The four deaths take to 61 the toll in Yemen reported by the UN since late July. The internationally recognized government’
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Britain announced a new package of sanctions against Belarus on Friday, saying four individuals and three entities had been targeted over human rights violations and the ongoing facilitation of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The British government said the coordinated action with international partners marked the fourth anniversary of the
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Kamala Harris was set to announce her running mate Tuesday before the pair head out on a five-day swing through America’s hottest battleground states, just three months out from the presidential election. The US vice president’s campaign has come out of the blocks at a lightning pace since