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September 18, 2025 5:31 PM

EU set to miss UN climate deadline amid internal divisions

European Union countries' climate ministers are expected to confirm on Thursday that the bloc will miss a global deadline to set new emissions-cutting targets, due to divisions over the plans among EU governments. Missing the deadline could be a blo...

September 10, 2025 4:41 PM

EU Commission chief to propose new measures targeting Israel

The European Commission will propose sanctioning extremist Israeli ministers and the suspension of trade-related measures in a European Union agreement with Israel, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday. The proposals,...

September 10, 2025 4:04 PM

Poland is at its closest to open conflict since World War Two: PM Donald Tusk

Poland is the closest it has been to open conflict since World War Two, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Wednesday after the NATO member state shot down Russian drones over its territory. He said Poland had asked NATO to open consultations under A...

September 10, 2025 1:01 PM

France’s Emmanuel Macron names loyalist Sebastien Lecornu as new prime minister

French President Emmanuel Macron named loyalist Sebastien Lecornu, a one-time conservative protege who rallied behind his 2017 presidential run, as prime minister on Tuesday, defying expectations he might tack towards the left. The choice of Lecornu...

September 9, 2025 2:51 PM

France’s Macron seeks new prime minister after government’s collapse

French President Emmanuel Macron is seeking his fifth prime minister in less than two years after opposition parties united to kick out centre-right Prime Minister Francois Bayrou over his unpopular plans for budget tightening. Bayrou, handed a 364-...

September 9, 2025 10:10 AM

Stalemate or surrender: France’s Macron is left with no good options

The challenge French President Emmanuel Macron faces in choosing his fifth prime minister in under two years lays bare the depth of a political crisis that in many ways is of his own making, and one with no clear path out. Francois Bayrou is set to ...

September 1, 2025 4:51 PM

French PM starts talks with opposition, seeking to avert government collapse

Prime Minister Francois Bayrou will kick off a series of talks with France's political parties on Monday, seeking to avert the collapse of his government in a confidence vote next week that opposition leaders said is bound to fail. Opposition partie...

August 26, 2025 3:29 PM

French minister won’t rule out snap election after PM Bayrou’s confidence-vote gamble

France could find itself heading for another snap parliamentary election, a government minister suggested on Tuesday, after opposition parties said they would vote to oust Prime Minister Francois Bayrou, coinciding with a decline in French market...

August 20, 2025 1:39 PM

Trump says US may provide air support to back a Ukraine peace deal

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he has ruled out putting U.S. troops on the ground in Ukraine, but said the United States might provide air support as part of a deal to end Russia's war in the country. A day after Trump pledged security guara...

August 19, 2025 11:30 AM

US would help assure Ukraine’s security in a peace deal, Trump tells Zelenskiy

U.S. President Donald Trump told President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Monday that the United States would help guarantee Ukraine's security in any deal to end Russia's war there, though the extent of any assistance was not immediately clear. Trump made ...

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