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Prime Minister participates in ministerial meeting on US plan for Gaza
Paris: Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs HE Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani participated in the ministerial meeting on the US plan for Gaza and the next steps towards a ceasefire. Held in Paris today, October 9,...

Can Macron end crisis and find a new prime minister? MPs doubt it
A growing number of MPs are sceptical about President Macron’s chances of calming France’s political turmoil by quickly appointing a new prime minister, as promised by the outgoing incumbent Sébastien Lecornu. Lecornu’s surprise resignation on...

Macron seeks to buy time with a new prime minister
France is no stranger to popular rebellion, street revolt or political theatre. But seldom in modern times has the country experienced a week of politics as chaotic, farcical and unseemly. In the space of 24 hours, from October 5th, France gained...

Macron Seeks Sixth Prime Minister Amid France’s Deepening Political Deadlock
Rabat – French President Emmanuel Macron is facing renewed turbulence as he searches for his sixth prime minister in less than two years, amid deep political fractures and growing investor unease over the country’s soaring deficit. The Élysée...

Berlin Gallery Société Now Represents Edi Rama, the Prime Minister of Albania
Edi Rama, prime minister of Albania for more than a decade, is hardly an art world novice. He studied at the Academy of Arts in his native Tirana, and was a professor there as well. He was a working artist in Paris in the ‘90s, before returning to...

Y Media Newsroom: UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer greeted with ‘Tujhe Dekha To’ from ‘DDLJ’ at Yash Raj Films
Mumbai, Oct 9 – The UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer was greeted with the love anthem “Tujhe Dekha To” from the 1995 blockbuster “Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (DDLJ) starring Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol during his recent visit to Yash Raj Studios in...

The U.S. government is more pro-Artsakh than the Prime Minister of Armenia
Just when we had lost all hope that the United States government would ever say or do anything to support Artsakh, we were pleasantly surprised to see a letter by a high-ranking State Department official who stated all the right things in defense...

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi celebrates their July trade agreement in Mumbai
Starmer and Modi met to talk up their vision of open trade, though neither mentioned President Donald Trump’s tariffs directly. But the contrast was obvious. While Trump’s been pushing his zero-sum approach to trade talks, Modi told a fintech...

Macron races to appoint new French prime minister amid deepening crisis
Unless Lecornu is reappointed, the new PM will be the eighth of Macron’s presidency. ‘Roll up its sleeves’ Lecornu resigned early on Monday after less than a month in office but Macron gave him up to Wednesday evening to find a way out of months...

France’s Macron To Appoint His Eighth Prime Minister by Friday – Failing President Pressured To Call Snap Elections or To Resign
AI-Generated Image by Grok: French president Emmanuel Macron hopes to weather the political storm. Eighth time is the charm? As we fully expected, political scape artist Emmanuel Macron is clinging to power, ready to burn the French Republic to...

Prime Minister Pashinyan meets with EU Commissioner Marta Kos
A meeting between Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan and European Union Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos took place in Brussels. The interlocutors discussed issues related to the new Armenia-EU partnership agenda and the...

Europe hails Trump’s Israel-Gaza peace announcement
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas noted the “major diplomatic accomplishment” as “a real chance to end a devastating war and release all the hostages,” before adding that the EU “will do what it can to support its implementation.” She also did...

France awaits new PM to end political crisis
France on Thursday awaited in suspense over who would be its next prime minister as a deadline ticked down for President Emmanuel Macron to name a new premier after Sebastien Lecornu's resignation threw the country further into political turmoil....

Italy looks to ban the burka & virginity testing as hardline PM Giorgia Meloni battles ‘Islamic separatism’
ITALY is set to push a sweeping new law to ban burkas and virginity testing as part of a drive against what Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni calls “Islamic separatism.” The conservative leader’s Brothers of Italy party unveiled the bill in parliament...

France’s Political Turmoil and Rising Debt Challenge 2026 Budget Approval
London diplomatic channels are signaling that France is once again emerging from a period of political and financial turbulence, as in less than two years the country has lost its fifth prime minister ahead of submitting the 2026 budget to...

European Commission's von der Leyen survives twin no-confidence votes
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has survived two no-confidence votes led by far-right and far-left lawmakers over her trade policies. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen successfully staved off two no-confidence...

Europeans, Arabs meet to flesh out next Gaza phase
PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron warned Thursday that expanding Zionist settlements threatened a Palestinian state and US-led peace efforts, as France hosted Arab and European ministers hours after a Gaza ceasefire deal was announced....

France’s fiscal crisis hits close to home
Published: 10 Oct. 2025, 00:03 Audio report: written by reporters, read by AI Kim Chang-woo The author is a senior economic reporter at the JoongAng Ilbo. On Sept. 6, while Koreans were celebrating Chuseok, French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu...

Europeans to press for seat on Trump’s Gaza ‘Board of Peace’
A German official said many configurations of different countries would be needed to make the peace deal work, but it was “a good sign” that ministers from the E3 nations were coordinating closely in the immediate aftermath of an agreement....

European Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi Implicated in Hungarian Espionage Allegations
207The European Union is confronting one of the gravest threats to its internal integrity in recent memory. Allegations that Hungary engaged in espionage activities targeting EU institutions, as reported by Politico, have prompted the European...