Madagascar’s embattled President Andry Rajoelina has appointed an army general as the new prime minister in a bid to end youth-led protests against his rule.
He said the nation needed a premier “capable of restoring order and the people’s trust”…
Category: 2. World
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Qiantang River on Mid-Autumn Festival: Beholders night of enchantment
Under a brilliant full moon, crowds of visitors gathered along the Qiantang River in Yanguan Town, eastern China’s Zhejiang Province, on Monday night, awaiting the nocturnal…
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Spain to file ICC complaint over Israel’s mistreatment of Sumud flotilla activists
Spanish Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska has suggested that legal measures might be pursued at the International Criminal Court (ICC) following reports from Spanish citizens on board the Global Sumud Flotilla…
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Macron should call early presidential vote, says his first PM Édouard Philippe
Emmanuel Macron should name a prime minister to push through a budget and then call early presidential elections to solve France’s political crisis, his first prime minister has said.
Édouard Philippe’s comments come after France’s third prime…
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Israel committing Gaza genocide through reproductive suppression: Palestinian-American scholar tells UNSC
Palestinian-American legal scholar Noura Erakat has presented a detailed legal case at the UN, arguing that Israel’s war in Gaza constitutes genocide through a systematic attack on the reproductive capacity of the…
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Snapback not to affect free trade with Eurasian partners
Amir Roshanbakhsh Qanbari, Deputy for International Business Promotion at the Trade Promotion Organization of Iran, said the snapback mechanism will not impact Iran’s free trade relations with the Eurasian Economic Union and announced that…
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Israel targeting defenseless Gazans as world fails to stop ‘ongoing massacre’
The Vatican’s top diplomat says the Israeli regime has, over the past two years, targeted the defenseless Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip amid the international community’s failure to put a halt to the…
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Two years on, will Israel and Hamas seize the chance to end the war?
Jeremy Bowen International editor, Jerusalem
Anadolu via Getty ImagesIsrael’s devastating military response to the 7 October attacks has destroyed most of Gaza After two years of war, there is a chance of a deal that will end the killing and…
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Carney to meet Trump in search of ‘best deal for Canada’
Nadine YousifSenior Canada reporter and
Bernd Debusmann JrReporting from the White House
Getty ImagesCarney’s visit to Washington on Tuesday is his second since May and has been billed a “working visit” focused on issues like trade and security Continue Reading
Albanian judge shot dead in court by man on trial
A judge in Albania has been shot dead after a man opened fire during a trial at the Court of Appeal in the capital Tirana.
Judge Astrit Kalaja died en route to hospital, officials said, while two others involved in the hearing over a property…
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