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French Finance Minister Antoine Armand has pledged that the 2025 budget will be fully in line with new European Union spending rules as the country seeks to tackle its “colossal” debt through spending cuts and new taxes. Armand aims to reduce the public deficit to 5% of GDP next year, with a longer-term goal of…
Research into cancer or cardiovascular drugs could be in the running for the Nobel Prize in Medicine, to be announced on Monday. As global crises continue, the award seeks to inspire optimism. The potential laureates are American biologist Kevan Shokat, known for his work on the KRAS cancer gene, which offers hope for the treatment…
Incumbent Tunisian President Kais Saied is set to win the presidential election with 89.2 percent of the vote, according to exit polls on Sunday, despite low turnout. Rights groups fear his re-election, following a sweeping power grab, will further entrench his authoritarian rule in the country that once symbolized the Arab Spring uprisings. Source link
Tunisians voted on Sunday in an election in which President Kais Saied is seeking a second term, with his main rival suddenly jailed last month and most opponents jailed or barred from running. The period leading up to Sunday was rather unusual for a presidential election: there were no campaign rallies or public debates. Watch…
A 15-year-old boy was “stabbed 50 times” and burned alive this week in the southern French city of Marseille. A prosecutor in Marseille told the press on Sunday that the victims and perpetrators of drug-related violence were getting younger and younger. Source link
Incumbent Kais Saied looks poised to win another term in Sunday’s presidential election with just two opposition candidates: a former lawmaker who backed Saied’s 2021 mandate and a recently jailed businessman. Tunisia’s electoral commission has barred 14 candidates from running during a campaign marred by a crackdown on dissent. Source link
From Jakarta to Los Angeles, protesters in cities in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas began a weekend of protests calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon. Security has been stepped up in several cities ahead of planned protests and celebrations ahead of Monday’s anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel. Source link
The first vaccines were given to hospital staff on Saturday and more will be made available to the public most at risk on Monday, the health minister said. As the Democratic Republic of Congo struggles to contain a deadly mpox outbreak, the country is still waiting for millions of doses of vaccine to arrive from…
Maritime authorities pulled several dead, including a small child, from a boat and airlifted another would-be asylum seeker to hospital on Saturday. Around 47 undocumented migrants have died trying to travel from France to the UK by boat this year. Source link
French photographer Janine Niépce was one of the country’s first female photojournalists. A new exhibition of her photographs, some of which are on display for the first time, examines the rise of the working woman against the backdrop of the women’s rights movement in the second half of the twentieth century. Source link
