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The Greens in France want to govern after the surprise election victory of the new left-wing alliance NFP, of which they were part. “We have won and now we are going to govern,” said Marine Tondelier, secretary general of the Green Party, in Paris. “Tonight there is a great chance that the (New) Popular Front […]

After the surprise outcome of the early parliamentary elections, French President Emmanuel Macron is focusing on forming a government, his office said on Sunday evening. Before making a decision, the head of state will await the final election results and the final composition of the House of Representatives, the National Assembly and the Élysée. “In

Prime Minister Gabriel Attal announced his resignation after the left-wing alliance won a surprise victory in France’s parliamentary elections on Sunday, leaving his centrist camp unable to secure a majority. Attal, which belongs to the president Emmanuel MacronMacron’s Renaissance party said after the publication of the first forecasts on Sunday evening that the Ensemble (Together)

I’m standing so close to JAXA’s Hayabusa2 asteroid lander that I could touch it. Instead, I jump on top of it. Then I strike a pose. When I jump off, I float briefly in the low gravity before landing gently on the surface of Ryugu, a rocky, gray world devoid of life and color. The

(Reuters) – France’s left-wing New Popular Front (NFP), an alliance of parties hastily formed after President Emmanuel Macron called surprise early parliamentary elections, but appeared to surprisingly win against the far right and the ruling centrists on Sunday. If the initial forecasts are confirmed, Macron will have to appoint a prime minister from within the

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has met Prime Minister John Swinney for the first time since taking office. Labour wins landslide election victory. Sir Keir met Mr Swinney at the Prime Minister’s official residence in Edinburgh during the new Prime Minister’s UK tour. The visit comes days after Labour’s position in Scotland improved dramatically. The

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — West Africa’s divided regional bloc asked Senegalese President Basirou on Sunday Diomaye Faye to hold a dialogue with the three member states led by the military junta to try to reunify the region whose stability is at risk after they decided to leave the group in January. At the summit in

A senior Hamas official is among four people killed in an Israeli airstrike on a school in Gaza City, Palestinian sources said. A local official told the BBC that Ehab Al-Ghussein was appointed three months ago to manage the affairs of the Hamas government in Gaza City and northern Gaza. The Israeli army says it

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Two months ago, before Israeli forces entered Rafah, the city was home to most of Gaza’s more than 2 million residents. Today, it is a dust-covered ghost town. Abandoned, bullet-riddled apartment buildings have walls blown out and windows shattered. Bedrooms and kitchens are visible from roads strewn with rubble that

According to official reports in the Spanish tourist hotspot, some 2,800 Barcelona residents held a second demonstration against mass tourism on Sunday. The protesters cited rising accommodation and other costs as a reason for imposing restrictions on Spain’s lucrative tourism sector, the newspaper La Vanguardia reported. Customers at restaurants popular with tourists were sprayed with