The US had announced a humanitarian truce between Kinshasa and the M23 rebel group on July 5. Two children and two teenagers have been killed in a bombardment in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), local sources have told AFP news agency. The United States announced a humanitarian truce on July 5 between Kinshasa and […]
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People & Power investigates the costs and benefits of the Parisian Olympics, and if global sporting events are worth it. The 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris are seen by many in France as an international triumph and a showcase for the country. Officials who sold the $6.9bn project to France’s citizens – already $2bn
Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas on Monday submitted her resignation ahead of becoming the European Union’s new foreign policy chief. Kallas, who has led the small Baltic republic since 2021, handed her resignation to President Alar Karis but will remain prime minister in a caretaker capacity until early August. The 47-year-old, who will also step
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Israeli forces have killed at least 17 people after it struck a school sheltering displaced Palestinians in the Nuseirat refugee camp, according to Gaza’s civil defence agency. More than 80 people were injured in Sunday’s attack on the UN-run Abu Oraiban school. It is the fifth attack on a school-turned-shelter in eight days. The Abu
Enter Josep Borrell. The EU’s foreign policy chief will summon the ministers to a “formal” foreign affairs council at the same time as Orbán’s summit, according to three EU diplomats with direct knowledge of the plan and who requested anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the move. It comes after Hungary’s envoy to the
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At least eight bodies have been found, but reports indicate there may be more as anger over the discovery grows. Police in Kenya have promised a “transparent” investigation into the discovery of eight mutilated female bodies that were found dumped in an abandoned quarry in Mukuru, a collection of slums south of the capital Nairobi.
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US’s ‘immoral and inhumane’ policy on Gaza convinced veteran US diplomat Hala Rharrit to leave the State Department. For 18 years, Hala Rharrit worked as a political officer in the US Department of State, and eventually as spokesperson for the government. After realising that United States policy on Israel’s war on Gaza was making it
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Two men and a woman were found dead in the town of Albstadt-Lautlingen in the German state of Baden-Württemberg on Sunday. The suspected shooter was also among the dead, a police spokesman at the scene said. During a large-scale operation, police officers also found two seriously injured women who were taken to the hospital. There’s currently no
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has been wounded in the right ear in an assassination bid by a gunman at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, drawing condemnation from world leaders. The 78-year-old former president was rushed off stage, with blood streaked across his face after the shooting in Butler City on Saturday while the suspected
