French President Emmanuel Macron will name a new prime minister within 48 hours, the Elysee Palace has said, fending off speculation that fresh elections could be imminent.
Earlier on Wednesday, outgoing Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said the…

French President Emmanuel Macron will name a new prime minister within 48 hours, the Elysee Palace has said, fending off speculation that fresh elections could be imminent.
Earlier on Wednesday, outgoing Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said the…

Paul Kirby
Europe digital editor
Image source, LUDOVIC MARIN/AFPRadical left MP Mathilde Panot said the French…

Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa has escaped unharmed after his motorcade was targeted by stone-throwing protesters and what one minister described as an “assassination attempt”.
Noboa was inaugurating a water treatment plant in central

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French President Emmanuel Macron could appoint a new prime minister in the next 48 hours, the country’s outgoing…


Under the buzzing of Israeli drones and warplanes, Jihan Abu Mandeel watched her five young children play with toy animals in their tiny, makeshift tent in Deir Balah, Gaza. It was a brief moment of childhood amid Israel’s ongoing genocide in…

Arab nations have condemned far-right Israeli minister Itamar Ben Gvir after he prayed at Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site today, despite a decades-old…