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Paris Olympics 2024

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Paris Olympics off to a sodden start with a rain-drenched opening ceremony

Paris welcomed the Olympic Games with an opening ceremony like no other as athletes sailed down the River Seine to the sound of Lady Gaga and more, but relentless rain put a dampener on the party. Zinedine Zidane starred in a video to tee up the arrival of the Olympic flame before flares set off from the Austerlitz Bridge formed a tricolore. A total of 85 boats then began carrying […]

todayJuly 27, 2024

President Joe Biden

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President Biden tests positive for Covid-19

It's as he is campaigning in Las Vegas. President Joe Biden has tested positive for coronavirus, according to a speaker at the UnidosUS annual conference broadcast on the White House’s YouTube channel. Mr Biden was due to speak at the event in Las Vegas on Wednesday afternoon as part of an effort to rally Hispanic voters ahead of the November election. UnidosUS president and CEO Janet Murguia told the guests […]

todayJuly 18, 2024 3

President Joe Biden

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Biden appeals for unity after Trump assassination attempt

The US President Joe Biden is calling on the country to “unite as one nation”. US President Joe Biden on Sunday appealed for the country to “unite as one nation” after Saturday’s apparent attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump, and said he was ordering an independent security review of the lead-up to the attack. Mr Biden was speaking from the White House after receiving a briefing on the investigation in the Situation Room. […]

todayJuly 15, 2024 5

Donald Trump shot and injured in an assassination attempt

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Trump assassination attempt – what we know so far

Former US president Donald Trump has been shot and injured in an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania. Donald Trump has said a bullet “pierced” part of his ear when he was shot at a campaign rally in the US. Images showed the bloodied former president defiantly pumping his fist in the air after the assassination attempt. Here is what we know so far: – What happened? Mr Trump was addressing a […]

todayJuly 15, 2024 5

President Joe Biden

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Biden ‘declines’ to step aside and tells Democrats to focus on beating Trump

US President Joe Biden is standing firm against calls for him to drop his candidacy for a second term, calling for an “end” to the intra-party drama that has torn apart the Democrats. Mr Biden wrote in the two-page letter on Monday that “the question of how to move forward has been well-aired for over a week now. And it’s time for it to end”. He stressed that the party has “one […]

todayJuly 8, 2024 5

President Emmanuel Macron

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Relief mixed with concern among European leaders over French poll results

Leaders across Europe have expressed relief but also some concern over the results of the snap election in France which left a key EU country facing the prospect of a hung parliament and political paralysis. Relief, because the far-right National Rally did not come out as the strongest party, as many pro-European leaders had feared – but also concern, because no political grouping has a majority in the National Assembly. […]

todayJuly 8, 2024 3

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

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Israeli PM dissolves war cabinet tasked with steering war in Gaza

It follows departure of of Benny Gantz. Israeli officials have said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dissolved the influential war cabinet that was tasked with steering the war in Gaza. The war cabinet was dissolved following the departure from the government of Benny Gantz, an opposition legislator who had joined the coalition in the early days of the war. He had demanded that a small cabinet be formed as […]

todayJune 17, 2024 8

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy

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Territorial integrity of Ukraine “must be basis of peace deal”

Eighty countries have jointly called for the “territorial integrity” of Ukraine to be the basis for any peace agreement to end Russia’s war, though some key developing nations at a Swiss conference did not sign up. The joint communique on Sunday capped a two-day conference at the Burgenstock resort in Switzerland marked by the absence of Russia, which was not invited, but that many attendees hoped could join in on […]

todayJune 17, 2024 6

Gaza

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Israel announces ‘tactical pause’ to increase aid flow

The Israeli military on Sunday announced a “tactical pause” in its offensive in the southern Gaza Strip to allow the deliveries of increased quantities of humanitarian aid. The army said the pause would begin in the Rafah area at 8am (5am GMT) and remain in effect until 7pm (4pm GMT). It said the pauses would take place every day until further notice. The pause is aimed at allowing aid trucks […]

todayJune 16, 2024 9

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