French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday named centrist ally Francois Bayrou as prime minister, after a historic parliamentary vote ousted the previous government last week. Mr Bayrou, 73, a crucial partner in Macron’s centrist alliance, has been a well-known figure in French politics for decades. His political experience is seen as key in efforts to restore stability as no single …
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President Emmanuel Macron on Friday named centrist leader Francois Bayrou as prime minister, handing him the daunting task of hauling France out of months of political crisis.
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We are nearing a century of Person of the Year, the franchise TIME’s editors launched as a make-good at the end of 1927, after realizing they had failed to mark Charles Lindbergh’s history-making transatlantic flight on the cover. It is our privilege to work on a project that has, across those years, become a milestone and, yes, a lightning rod. …
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The US president has commuted the sentences of almost 1,500 people, less than two weeks after pardoning his son Hunter Outgoing US President Joe Biden has commuted the sentences of 1,499 people and pardoned 39 non-violent offenders, the White House announced on Thursday. Earlier this month, he also granted a blanket pardon to his son Hunter, claiming he had been …
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Félix Morfis, next to photovoltaic panels installed on his house in Regla municipality, Havana. Credit: Jorge Luis Baños /IPS by Dariel Pradas (havana) Thursday, December 12, 2024 Inter Press Service HAVANA, Dec 12 (IPS) – With Decree 110, published on 26 November, Cuba made it mandatory for major consumers, whether they are state or private entities, to invest in the use …
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More than 30 Palestinians have been killed and 50 others injured in an Israeli air attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. Medics told the Reuters news agency that a post office sheltering displaced Palestinian families was hit, as well as nearby houses. Photographs from the scene show young children coated with dust and blood in the rubble …
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SERGEI GAPON/AFP Emmanuel Macron has vowed to serve out his second term as French president President Emmanuel Macron was meeting centrist leader François Bayrou on Friday as speculation mounted over who he would choose as PM, in a bid to end months of political turmoil. It is now nine days since French MPs ousted Michel Barnier as prime minister in …
Read More »Many women are making dangerous trips to places where loved ones are fighting Russian forces. “We try to imagine that for these two days, there is no war,” one said.
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The “paste with imports” feature automatically adds imports for pasted code when copying and pasting code between JavaScript or TypeScript. Microsoft noted that by default copy and paste will always insert just the pasted text. But if a “paste with imports” edit is available, the paste control will make it available to select. Other new features and improvements in VS …
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A former Syrian military official who oversaw a prison where alleged human rights abuses took place has been charged with several counts of torture after being arrested in July for visa fraud charges, authorities said Thursday. Samir Ousman al-Sheikh, who oversaw Syria’s infamous Adra Prison from 2005 to 2008 under recently ousted President Bashar Assad, was charged by a federal …
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