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Macron calls shock French elections after far-right rout by Le Pen

By Michel Rose and Tassilo Hummel PARIS (Reuters) -In a shock move, French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday said he would dissolve parliament and call new legislative elections later this month

Israeli PM Netanyahu’s majority safe after Gantz departure

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz announced on Sunday that he was quitting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's emergency unity government formed shortly after the Hamas

European Election: Key quotes from across the EU

(Reuters) - The far-right was on course to score big gains in Sunday's European Parliament elections, exit polls showed, as France and Germany joined the Netherlands in offering the first signs that a

Austrian far right says EU vote win gives it momentum for national race

By Francois Murphy VIENNA (Reuters) -Austria's far-right Freedom Party pledged on Sunday to take the momentum from its apparent first-ever victory in a European election into this year's national poll

Israeli centrist minister Gantz quits Netanyahu government

By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli minister Benny Gantz announced his resignation from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's emergency government on Sunday, withdrawing the only centrist

Mexico ruling party misses Senate super-majority but wins lower house, Morena says

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's ruling Morena party and its allies control 83 seats in the Senate, the party's national president Mario Delgado said on Sunday, falling short of the two-thirds

German far-right makes strong gains in EU vote, ruling parties suffer

By Sarah Marsh and Thomas Escritt BERLIN (Reuters) -The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) shrugged off a string of scandals to take second place in Sunday's EU election, making gains in

Flemish nationalists set to retain lead in Belgian parliament, PM’s liberals take hit

By Philip Blenkinsop and Charlotte Van Campenhout BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Flemish nationalist party N-VA (New Flemish Alliance) was on course to remain the largest party in Belgium's parliament as the

Benny Gantz, man in the middle squeezed out by Israel’s Netanyahu

By James Mackenzie JERUSALEM (Reuters) - In the traumatic aftermath of the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, as hundreds of thousands of Israeli reservists rushed to join the ranks to fight Hamas, Benny Gantz

US, Saudi Arabia close to finalizing draft security treaty, WSJ reports

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration is close to finalizing a treaty with Saudi Arabia that would commit the U.S. to help defend the Gulf nation as part of a deal aimed at encouraging

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Asian NATO? Why Japan PM’s big new idea won’t shake up foreign policy

One of the most difficult tasks for Shigeru Ishiba, apart from keeping together the divided LDP, will be implementing his foreign policy ideas—if he chooses to pursue them.

How businesses can become more resilient to the physical impacts of climate change

Extreme weather events have impacted 50% of corporate respondents to a recent survey. This underlines the importance of significant action now to increase climate resilience.

‘Nightmare at Chennai Marina’: 4 dead, 96 hospitalised after pandemonium at packed IAF air show

Lakhs of people were stranded at beach in heat as crowd control measures apparently failed. At least 14 lakh people were in attendance though police had expected around 10 lakh.

Islam doesn’t kill democracy. The army-Islam combo does

How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?