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The party is now consulting legal experts on possible next steps. “We will now thoroughly review the matter legally,” Mohamed Ali confirmed. Meanwhile, Wagenknecht remained vague about her future as party leader. “This will be discussed within our leadership bodies, and we will announce a decision in due course,” she said, refusing to rule out stepping down. The result is a major blow for Wagenknecht, who turned her back on the far-left party The Left in 2023 to form her own party. While BSW struggled, The Left performed better than expected in the Sunday vote. The Left leader Jan van…

The countries’ military exercises last week are likely to displease China, which claims ownership over most of the South China Sea. France and the Philippines have vowed to deepen their alliance after carrying out joint combat exercises in the disputed South China Sea last week. In a display of military strength that is likely to anger China, the two countries conducted anti-submarine warfare drills and aerial combat training. Following the exercises, the French nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the Charles de Gaulle, docked on Friday at Subic Bay, a former US naval base northwest of Manila.On Sunday, Marie Fontanel, the French ambassador…

The lawsuit accuses Greenpeace of defamation and orchestrating criminal behaviour during pipeline protests in 2016 and 2017. A Texas pipeline company’s lawsuit accusing Greenpeace of defamation, disruptions and attacks during protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline goes to trial in North Dakota on Monday. The environmental advocacy organisation says the case threatens free speech rights and its very future.The lawsuit stems from the protests in 2016 and 2017 over the oil pipeline’s planned Missouri River crossing, upstream from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s reservation. The tribe has long argued that the pipeline threatens its water supply. Of the thousands of…

BERLIN — Germany’s Green candidate for chancellor Robert Habeck will step down from a leadership position after his party finished in fourth place in Sunday’s national election. “I will no longer claim or seek a leading role in the Green Party’s leadership team,”  Habeck said, without providing further details, during a press conference at the German Bundestag,  “I wanted more, and we wanted more,” he said about the party’s disappointing election result, though added he was proud of the “short and intense” campaign. Germany’s conservatives, led by Friedrich Merz, came out on top in the snap election, tilting the country…

A dozen leaders from Europe and Canada were in Ukraine’s capital Monday to show their support on the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion. European leaders, including EU Commission President Ursula Von Der Leyen, arrived in Kyiv on Monday, to show their support on the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion full-scale invasion of Ukraine.They and several world leaders, including Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Spanish Prime Minister President Pedro Sánchez, were greeted at the Ukranian capital’s train station by Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha and the president’s chief of staff, Andrii Yermak.In a post on X, von der Leyen…

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) gave state employees until the end of Monday to respond to the request. However, even some Trump allies have told staff to ignore the instruction. Uncertainty looms as Elon Musk’s deadline for federal workers to explain their recent accomplishments approaches, with US politicians from both parties criticising him over the move. On Saturday evening, the South African-born billionaire and owner of X announced on social media that his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) would email US state employees asking them for a list of what they had done the previous week. As part of…

A British archaeologist believes his team may have uncovered a second tomb belonging to an Egyptian pharaoh, Thutmose II, just days after discovering the first. The stuff of dreams for any archaeologist, Piers Litherland and his team, working on a British-Egyptian excavation, might have stumbled upon the second tomb of King Thutmose II in the Western Valleys of the Theban Necropolis near Luxor, Egypt. This comes only days after the team’s landmark discovery of the pharaoh’s first tomb.Litherland suspects the tomb may hold Thutmose II’s mummified remains, alongside grave goods, and says it is located 23 metres below a man-made…

Britain — particularly its City of London financial powerhouse — has long faced accusations it is a soft touch on Russian wealth, but the U.K. government has unveiled a swathe of sanctions on the country since Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. A further set of curbs is expected from the U.K.’s Foreign Office Monday afternoon. Security Minister Dan Jarvis told Times Radio Monday the latest move would “not only put further pressure on Russia, on the Russian elites and on Putin’s regime, but it will also bolster our own U.K. national security, because these are not people coming…

Doctors say Pope Francis is still in critical condition on the 10th day of his hospitalisation for a complex lung infection. Doctors say that Pope Francis has shown early signs of kidney insufficiency, as he continues to struggle with pneumonia and a complex lung condition. The Vatican has said he is in a critical condition, but that he was resting on Monday morning after a quiet night.Late on Sunday, doctors reported that blood tests showed early kidney insufficiency that was nevertheless under control, and that he hadn’t experienced any further respiratory crises since Saturday. He was able to attend Mass…

French media reported that firefighters were sent to the site in the southern port city after the facade of the Russian consulate was struck by two explosive devices. A fire broke out in front of the Russian consulate in the French port city of Marseille after an unidentified device caused an explosion on Monday, according to reports. BFM said that two devices were thrown at the facade of the building in the early morning, causing explosions and material damage. Other outlets reported Molotov cocktails were likely used in the incident.However, the Bouches-du-Rhône police told BFM that “the notion of a…