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  • Leftwing surge thwarts far right in French election: Financial Times

    Date: 2024-07-08 09:51:07 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:21 - ID:10776086

    LONDON, July 8 (MENA) - France is heading towards a hung parliament and rocky talks to form a government after an unexpected leftwing victory thwarted Marine Le Pen’s efforts to bring the far right to power, the Financial Times newspaper reported on ....

  • 11 dead, 19 missing In Indonesia landslide

    Date: 2024-07-08 05:33:21 GMT - Indonesia - World - SN:4 - ID:10775730

    JAKARTA, July 8 (MENA) - At least 11 people are dead and 19 more are missing after heavy rains caused a landslide near an illegal gold mine on Indonesia's central island of Sulawesi, ABC News reported quoting an official as saying on ....

  • French PM says will tender resignation on Monday morning

    Date: 2024-07-07 20:43:32 GMT - France - World - SN:69 - ID:10775672

    PARIS, July 7 (MENA) - French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal has offered to hand his resignation to President Emmanuel Macron tomorrow morning, Sky News reported on Sunday. Speaking after the snap French elections revealed no party would be able to ....

  • New Popular Front leads French legislative elections

    Date: 2024-07-07 20:02:19 GMT - France - World - SN:64 - ID:10775590

    PARIS, July 7 (MENA) – France’s left-wing New Popular Front coalition is set to unexpectedly win the most seats in the second round of the country’s parliamentary election, early results show. The New Popular Front — an alliance of five parties ....

  • The Observer view on the new Labour government

    Date: 2024-07-07 11:50:48 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:28 - ID:10774899

    LONDON, July 7 (MENA) - It could not come soon enough. After 14 years, Britain at last has a government motivated by re-energising a sluggish economy rather than channelling lucrative state contracts to wealthy friends, according to The ....

  • Russian Ambassador to China: US uses sanctions, dollar as weapon for political goals

    Date: 2024-07-07 10:39:49 GMT - China - World - SN:21 - ID:10774714

    BEIJING, July 7 (MENA) - The US and its allies use sanctions and dollar hegemony as weapons to achieve their political goals, Russian Ambassador to China Igor Morgulov said. Morgulov made the remarks at a panel discussion on the prospects of ....

  • Russian army loses 1,150 soldiers in Ukraine in past day

    Date: 2024-07-07 06:08:23 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:8 - ID:10774409

    KIEV, July 7 (MENA) - Russia lost about 550,990 troops in Ukraine between February 24, 2022 and July 7, 2024, including 1,150 soldiers killed or wounded in action in the past 24 hours, Ukrinform news agency reported quoting the General Staff of the ....

  • Zelensky: Ukraine is developing new naval strategy

    Date: 2024-07-06 20:22:25 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:76 - ID:10774276

    KIEV, July 6 (MENA) - The Ukrainian government is working on a new maritime strategy that will be soon approved by the National Security and Defense Council, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday. "We clearly understand that the ....

  • More than 1,000 evacuated after central China leaking

    Date: 2024-07-06 18:57:21 GMT - China - World - SN:73 - ID:10774237

    BEIJING, July 6 (MENA) - Local authorities in China announced Saturday the evacuation of more than 1,000 people after a leakage occurred in a dam in the Jiufeng Reservoir in Pingjiang County, Hunan Province, central China. A preliminary ....

  • Hungarian PM says he prepared his visit to Russia under veil of secrecy

    Date: 2024-07-06 18:22:42 GMT - Russia - World - SN:71 - ID:10774252

    MOSCOW, July 6 (MENA) - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said he kept preparations for his visit to Russia under wraps, TASS news agency reported. "That meeting was prepared in a totally secret way," he said in an interview with the Swiss ....

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