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Gérald Darmanin and new French prime minister Gabriel Attal attend the weekly Cabinet meeting. — courtesy Getty Images
France's new PM tilts his Cabinet to the right
PARIS — France's youngest ever PM Gabriel Attal has kept on most of the heavyweights from the outgoing government.But his Cabinet — named on Thursday — also contains some interesting new faces.Attal's own former partner Stéphane Séjourné is at foreign affairs, while Sarkozy-era minister Rachida Dati is at culture.The Cabinet's profile is clearly more skewed to the right than previous ones under President Emmanuel Macron.Gone it seems is the careful preservation of left-right balance. Today the only members of the government with a past in the Socialist Party (PS) are Attal himself and Séjourné (though Justice Minister Eric Dupont-Moretti also has been identified with the left in the past).Among those who came to Macron from the center-right Republicans (LR) are...
January 13, 2024

France's new PM tilts his Cabinet to the right

A damaged apartment after recent shelling in Makiivka outside Donetsk, Russian-controlled Ukraine. — courtesy Reuters
Russia unleashes fresh barrage of missiles and drones against Ukraine
KYIV — Russia unleashed another large barrage of missiles and drones against Ukraine on Saturday, the fourth such attack since Dec. 29, amid concerns that Moscow is trying to overwhelm Ukraine’s air defense.The Russian assault was comprised of 40 attack weapons including cruise, aeroballistic, ballistic, aircraft, anti-aircraft guided missiles as well as strike UAVs, according to the Ukrainian Air Force.Ukraine managed to take down eight missiles, its air force said. Additionally they stated that “over 20 launched air attack weapons did not reach their targets due to extensive electronic warfare countermeasures.”The air raid warnings and defenses were activated across the country. There were impacts in several regions, including the city of Chernihiv in northern Ukraine and Dnipro...
January 13, 2024

Russia unleashes fresh barrage of missiles and drones against Ukraine

2023 was the hottest year on record, globally. — courtesy ADB/Rakesh Sahai
WMO confirms 2023 as warmest year on record ‘by a huge margin’
GENEVA — With the annual average global temperature fast approaching the critical threshold of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, last year officially smashed the global temperature record, the UN weather agency (WMO) confirmed on Friday.The World Meteorological Organization uses six leading international datasets from across the globe to monitor global temperatures, which reveal a new annual temperature average of 1.45°C set against the pre-industrial era (1850-1900).Every month between June and December set new records. July and August were the two hottest months ever recorded, WMO said.The 1.5°C figure is the temperature limit set out clearly in the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change but that refers to the long-term temperature increase averaged over decades, rather than an...
January 13, 2024

WMO confirms 2023 as warmest year on record ‘by a huge margin’

A view from the Hubble space telescope shows that galaxies are evenly distributed in the Universe
Huge ring of galaxies challenges thinking on cosmos
LONDON — Scientists at the University of Central Lancashire have discovered a gigantic, ring-shaped structure in space.It is 1.3bn light-years in diameter and appears to be roughly 15 times the size of the Moon in the night sky as seen from Earth.Named the Big Ring by astronomers, it is made up of galaxies and galaxy clusters.They say that it is so big it challenges our understanding of the universe.It cannot be seen with the naked eye. It is really distant and identifying all the galaxies that make up the bigger structure has taken a lot of time and computing power.Such large structures should not exist according to one of the guiding principles of astronomy, called the cosmological principle. This states that all matter is spread smoothly across the Universe.Although stars, planets and...
January 12, 2024

Huge ring of galaxies challenges thinking on cosmos

Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak leaves 10 Downing Street to attend the weekly session of Prime Ministers Questions in parliament, in London, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024
Rishi Sunak pledges €2.9 billion military aid on surprise visit to Ukraine
KYIV — The British Prime Minister is expected to meet with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday, after announcing additional funding for the country's fight against Russia.The UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will visit Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on Friday, after announcing that it will boost his country's aid to Ukraine to £2.5 billion (€2.9 billion) over the coming fiscal year.The extra funding, which represents an increase of £200 million (€232.7 million) compared to the previous two years, is set to help Ukraine purchase new military drones, which Zelenskyy said earlier this week the country badly needs, among other air defenses, to continue its fight against the Russian invasion.Talking during a visit to the Baltic countries on...
January 12, 2024

Rishi Sunak pledges €2.9 billion military aid on surprise visit to Ukraine

An extra half a million soldiers are needed in the fight against Russia's invasion, President Zelensky has said
Ukraine MPs reject bid to crack down on draft dodgers
KYIV — Ukraine's parliament has refused to consider a conscription bill that proposes a crackdown on draft dodgers.MPs have criticized certain punishment measures included in the bill as unconstitutional.Some have also suggested reducing the length of military service proposed in the bill from 36 to 18 months.The bill was drafted in a bid to conscript more people, as Kyiv faces problems on the battlefield after nearly two years of war with Russia.It also included plans to lower the age at which men can be conscripted into the armed forces from 27 to 25.Last month, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said 450,000-500,000 extra soldiers were needed to fight Russia's invasion.But some clauses in the bill have caused outrage, such as limiting draft dodgers' rights to own...
January 12, 2024

Ukraine MPs reject bid to crack down on draft dodgers

Ukraine insists there were no military at the hotel hit by Russian missiles
Ukraine official says Russian missiles wreck Kharkiv hotel
KYIV — Two Russian missiles have struck a hotel in Ukraine's second-largest city, Kharkiv, injuring 11 people, the Kharkiv governor says.Photos from Ukraine's State Emergency Service showed the hotel heavily damaged and firefighters at the scene.Governor Oleh Synehubov said the injured included Turkish journalists. Two S-300 missiles struck at about 22:30 (20:30 GMT), he said.Russia has stepped up air strikes on Ukrainian cities in the past two weeks.Ukrainian officials say dozens of civilians have died in those attacks from drones and missiles.Kharkiv, just 30km (19 miles) from the Russian border, has suffered extensive damage from Russian air strikes since President Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.In the latest strike, nine injured...
January 11, 2024

Ukraine official says Russian missiles wreck Kharkiv hotel

A soldier from the Swedish Amphibious Corps is pictured on board the CB90-class fast assault craft, as they participate in the military exercise Archipelago Endeavor 23 on Mallsten island in the Stockholm Archipelago on September 13, 2023
Swedish alarm after defense chiefs' war warning
STOCKHOLM — A warning to Swedes from two top defense officials to prepare for war has prompted concern and accusations of alarmism.Civil Defense Minister Carl-Oskar Bohlin told a defense conference "there could be war in Sweden".His message was then backed up by military commander-in-chief Gen Micael Byden, who said all Swedes should prepare mentally for the possibility.However, opposition politicians have objected to the tone of the warnings.Ex-prime minister Magdalena Andersson told Swedish TV that while the security situation was serious, "it is not as if war is just outside the door."Children's rights organization Bris said that its national helpline did not usually receive calls about the possibility of war. But this week, it had seen an increase in worried...
January 11, 2024

Swedish alarm after defense chiefs' war warning

People hold banners and shout slogans as they take part in a protest against a warrant for the former Minister of the Interior of Poland in front of the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, Poland. — courtesy Getty Images
Polish police arrest MPs in presidential palace
WARSAW — Polish police have arrested the former interior minister and deputy interior minister inside the presidential palace in Warsaw in a day of unprecedented political theater.Mariusz Kaminski and Maciej Wasik were sentenced to two years' jail last month for abuse of power when they led an anti-corruption office in 2007.Following the arrests, the new interior minister Marcin Kierwinski wrote on X: "Everyone is equal before the law."The arrests highlight the political turmoil between the Law and Justice (PiS) party and the new pro-EU coalition.The men, who were elected PiS MPs in October, refused to recognize last month's court decision because President Andrzej Duda, a PiS ally, pardoned them for the crime in 2015.Duda has also said he does not recognize the...
January 10, 2024

Polish police arrest MPs in presidential palace

Jobless workers wait for employment opportunities in Lilongwe, the capital of Malawi. — courtesy ILO/Marcel Crozet
Global unemployment to increase in 2024, warns ILO report
GENEVA — Global unemployment is expected to rise this year, with growing inequality and stagnant productivity also a cause for concern on the economic horizon, the UN labor agency ILO said on Wednesday.Just over five percent of the world’s workforce is without a job, according to the International Labor Organization’s World Employment and Social Outlook Trends 2024 report.This is a better situation than before the pandemic, but it isn’t set to last, as an extra two million people are expected to be looking for a job over the next 12 months, the ILO said.The UN agency’s findings chime with a new World Bank report released on Tuesday indicating that the global economy is on track for the slowest half-decade of growth in 30 years.In addition to the uncertain jobs market outlook, ILO...
January 10, 2024

Global unemployment to increase in 2024, warns ILO report

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