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President Emmanuel Macron will meet with leaders from several political parties Monday as he struggles to find a prime minister to replace Michel Barnier, whose short-lived minority government was topped in a no-confidence vote last week. Parliamentary speaker Yaël Braun-Pivet said that a new premier should be named “within the next few hours”. Source link
Friedrich Merz, the leader of Germany’s center-right Christian Democrats (CDU), arrived in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv early on Monday. The conservative candidate for chancellor in the country’s upcoming snap elections was visiting the country for the second time since the Russian invasion began in 2022. Merz said he wanted to use the visit to … Read more
Ukraine’s military is short of soldiers. Officers say mobilization and voluntary recruitment campaigns have failed to replenish the ranks. The army is losing ground daily to the Russian offensive in the Eastern Donbass region. Kyiv is under pressure from its allies to lower the draft age to 18. But there is fierce resistance to that … Read more
Syrians awakened to a hopeful if uncertain future, after rebels seized the capital Damascus and President Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia, following 13 years of civil war and more than 50 years of his family’s brutal rule. Story by Nicholas Rushworth. Source link
As Syrian rebels topple the government of Bashar al-Assad in Damascus, we take stock of what over a decade of fighting has done to the country’s economy. Syria’s GDP has been decimated by the conflict’s human and material toll, while the Syrian pound has plummeted. On its last legs, the cash-strapped regime grasped at any … Read more
For more than a decade, millions of Syrians have found refuge in camps across Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan. Now that Assad’s regime has been toppled, they might finally be able to return home. Story by Emily Boyle. Source link
2024 will be the first calendar year more than 1.5 degrees Celsius hotter than the pre-industrial era, Europe’s climate monitor said Monday, adding that this is “effectively certain” to be the warmest on record. Source link
In a study, the German Economic Institute asked German companies whether they saw it as the responsibility of companies and associations to position themselves against the AfD party. With regard to companies, 51% of West German and 42% of East German companies agree with this statement. 58% of West German and 51% of East German … Read more
The Kandahar brand, which has been part of the Kybun Joya Group for three seasons, announces the opening of the brand’s first shop-in-shop. Kandahar is now working on the exclusive project together with the Swiss shoe store Schulthess on Rennweg, one of the oldest streets in Zurich’s old town. According to the company, the presence … Read more
Taiwan’s military was on high alert Monday after detecting Chinese warships near the island, Taipei said, as Beijing vowed to “firmly defend” its sovereignty in response to the drills. Source link