In between settling scores with his former finance minister during an occasionally hot-tempered speech in the Bundestag this week, Chancellor Olaf Scholz tried to take a conciliatory tone with the opposition. “My proposal, my appeal to this house: Where we are unified, let us act unified. It would be good for our country,” he told … Read more
Senegal on Sunday voted in parliamentary elections, with the new leaders aiming for a resounding majority to see through the promise of ambitious reform that swept them to power eight months ago. Details with FRANCE 24 correspondent in Dakar, Caitlin Kelly. Source link
A powerful typhoon wrecked houses, caused towering tidal surges and forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee to emergency shelters as it cut across the northern Philippines on Sunday in the sixth major storm to hit the country in less than a month. More information with Andrew Hilliar. Source link
Russia on Sunday launched a relentless aerial bombardment on Ukraine’s energy production and distribution facilities, firing 120 missiles and 90 drones across the country, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said. Source link
Russia on Sunday pummeled Ukraine with one of the largest barrages of the grinding near-three-year war, Ukrainian officials said, forcing power cuts with fears of a precarious winter to come. FRANCE 24’s Gulliver Cragg reports from Kyiv. Source link
In September, Olaf Scholz brushed aside a journalist’s question about his legacy. “I think you should be wary of politicians who think about that before their appointment in office has ended,” he told Berlin’s Daily Mirror newspaper in response to the question of what he hoped one day would be written in the history books … Read more
With Germany’s famous Christmas Markets opening in the coming weeks, the country’s interior minister has called on police and local authorities to tighten security – including the enforcement of Germany’s new ban on the carrying of sharp weapons. “Breaches of the knife ban can be punished with fines of up to €10,000,” minister Nancy Faeser … Read more
The leaders of Germany’s traditional parties are clearly nervous about the rise of populist parties. The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) secured just over 30% of the vote in recent state elections in Thuringia and Saxony, which was partly attributed to the party’s effectiveness at reaching first-time voters on TikTok. Matthias Kettemann, an expert on … Read more
Vikas Yadav News: You must remember the name of Khalistani most wanted terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannu. A person named Vikas Yadav allegedly conspired to kill this terrorist who intended to separate Punjab from India. A case was also registered in America in this regard. Now Vikas Yadav is facing threat to his life in India … Read more
Israel on Sunday launched air strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs shortly after issuing evacuation orders for three neighborhoods in the Hezbollah stronghold areas. The intensification of Israeli attacks came as the Lebanese government is studying a US ceasefire plan for Israel’s war in Lebanon. Follow our live coverage of the conflicts in the Middle East. … Read more