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Published on 15/07/2025 – 19:19 GMT+2The EU will not “punish” Israel for its actions in Gaza and will “keep a close watch” on the country’s implementation of a recent agreement to improve the flow of aid in the strip, the bloc’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas said in a press conference following a meeting of the EU’s 27 ministers in Brussels. The ministers were in Brussels to discuss an EU-Israel agreement brokered last week to increase the number of trucks and distribution of food entering Gaza as well as the opening of several other crossing points. They also examined an exhaustive list of 10…
PARIS ― French far-right leader Marine Le Pen said her party would vote to collapse François Bayrou’s government if the prime minister did not revise his drastic budget reduction plan that includes getting rid of two major public holidays. “This government prefers to attack the French people, workers and pensioners, rather than hunt waste,” Le Pen said Tuesday on X as Bayrou’s government presented its proposal. Read more about Bayrou’s announcement here.
Israeli airstrikes overnight and into Tuesday killed more than 90 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, including large numbers of women and children, according to health officials.One of the deadliest attacks struck Gaza City’s Tel al-Hawa district, killing 19 members of a single family, including eight women and six children. Another strike hit a tent sheltering displaced people in the same area, killing four, including two children.The Gaza Health Ministry reported 93 dead and 278 injured in the past 24 hours, as talks over a ceasefire remain stalled.As Israeli airstrikes continue, a sweltering heatwave has gripped the Gaza Strip, piling further…
Yet Bayrou said such extreme measures are required to rein in France’s €3.3 trillion in public debt and lower a budget deficit that fell afoul of European rules during the pandemic and remains stubbornly high. He likened France’s current situation to the debt crises of Greece and Spain in years past and vowed to act “quickly and decisively, but with fairness and justice.” Bayrou said he and his ministers were looking at trimming the 2026 budget by €43.8 billion as part of their plan to get the budget deficit down to 4.6 percent of gross domestic product next year. The prime…
High Court Judge Martin Chamberlain lifted the order Tuesday, saying it was “fundamentally objectionable for decisions that affect the lives and safety of thousands of human beings, and involve the commitment of billions of pounds of public money, to be taken in circumstances where they are completely insulated from public debate.” Chamberlain had already lifted the super-injunction in May 2024, before the Conservative government successfully appealed before last year’s election. The High Court judge said the ruling had “given rise to serious free speech concerns” and created “scrutiny vacuum.'” A report into the breach by former Ministry of Defence civil…
Airlines and passengers in Europe are facing the worst season for air-traffic disruption in 25 years. And summer is still young.Tens of millions of travellers are expected to face delays this summer, as mass cancellations caused by air-traffic control (ATC) strikes and persistent staff shortages plague the industry at the worst possible time.In early July, ATC strikes in France led to the cancellation of 1,500 flights over two days, disrupting travel for more than 1 million passengers – and triggering intense blowback from both travellers and airline executives.With more walkouts looming on 26 July in Spain and Italy, pressure is…
Published on 15/07/2025 – 15:28 GMT+2The Japan Art Association has revealed its laureates for the Praemium Imperiale, the awards widely known as the “Noble of the Arts”Serbian performance artist Marina Abramović has won the sculpture award for her long career of putting her life on the line and using her own body as a medium for her spectacular work. She first grabbed worldwide attention in 1974 with Rhythm 0 by inviting audiences to interact with her using one of 72 objects on a table at a Naples gallery. While people started tamely – offering her a rose or a kiss…
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The German Federal Constitutional Court ruled Tuesday that Germany is not violating international law by allowing the U.S. to partly operate drones from its territory. In response to a complaint from two Yemeni nationals, judges said that Germany did not bear responsibility for American military action routed through satellite infrastructure based at the Ramstein Air Base, in Rhineland-Palatinate, southwestern Germany. Two Yemenis were unintentionally killed in August 2012 by an American drone strike that targeted an al-Qaeda terrorist. One of the victims, a Yemeni cleric, was the uncle of the two plaintiffs. The complainants, supported by Berlin-based nongovernmental organization the…
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar told reporters Monday the deal was holding and batted away questions about reported killings of Palestinians at Gaza aid stations, blaming the Hamas militant group for, he said, diverting aid. Sa’ar also predicted that EU foreign ministers would stop short of any measures to penalize Israel at their meeting Tuesday. Indeed, Kallas is due to present a list of options to downgrade EU-Israel relations, ranging from a suspension of trade relations to fewer student exchanges. Those options follow an EU review of its trading agreement with Israel which found the state was not living up…