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Several high-profile Socialists, including former President François Hollande and former Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, have publicly hinted at plans to sit out their party’s primary and launch independent presidential bids. However, polls show that Glucksmann, the leader of his own small political party, Place Publique, is the best-placed presidential hopeful on the center left after leading the Socialists and their allies to a strong third-place finish in the 2024 European elections. Yet he and the rest of the field still lag significantly behind far-right front-runner Marine Le Pen, according to most surveys. France’s presidential election goes to a runoff if…
A Russian drone attack on a bus in Kherson in southern Ukraine killed four people and injured several others on Wednesday, the regional prosecutor’s office said in a statement. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shared images of the bus in a post on X, highlighting that it was “absolutely clear” that the bus was carrying civilian passengers. “The vicious Russian ‘safari’ against our people in Kherson has long gone beyond anything a normal person could imagine,” Zelenskyy wrote. Russian forces often target the city of Kherson, which Ukraine claims is the deliberate targeting of civilians. Earlier this month, Ukraine accused Russia…
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Published on 19/08/2026 – 11:45 GMT+2 Former Wimbledon finalist Nick Kyrgios revealed on Wednesday he tested positive for cocaine and was provisionally suspended from tennis. The 31-year-old Australian was beaten by Novak Djokovic in the 2022 singles final. He’s now ranked 919th after a series of injuries. Kyrgios posted details of the case on social media. “I recently failed a drug test in Mallorca after testing positive for cocaine,” he wrote, citing a lower level tournament in June. “I made a huge mistake and take full responsibility for it.” Cocaine is banned as a doping substance during competitions, with lower…
Charles Spencer, the younger brother of Diana, Princess of Wales, and the maternal uncle of William and Harry, has promised to “tell the truth” about his sister in a new book. Editors at Penguin Press confirmed the news by announcing that the British peer, author and journalist will publish a memoir titled “Swan Song: Diana, My Sister”, in which Charles will recount the story of Diana’s life and the week of her death. It will be published on 22 September and marks “the first time that Earl Spencer has spoken openly and at length about his sister”, according to the…
Cho said Trump’s announcement caught Seoul by surprise, but added the eventual changes to the drills were being worked out jointly. Defense Minister Ahn Gyu-back was in “close consultations” with Washington, he said. “Since our defense minister was involved in the discussions, I do not think it amounts to a unilateral notification.” He also warned that the smaller drills should not delay the transfer of wartime operational control, or OPCON, to Seoul — a longtime plan that would put a South Korean general in command of the combined U.S.-South Korean forces during a conflict. The drills have anchored the U.S.-South…
According to Spain’s Ministry for Youth and Children, work is under way on the urgent transfer to mainland Spain of 500 migrant girls who arrived in Ceuta during the mass entry on 30 and 31 July. Sources at the ministry explain that “this plan includes the royal decree-law providing for compulsory, solidarity-based reception by all the autonomous communities, or family placement, as well as other mechanisms to speed up reception”. Among the options being considered is a route that would allow child-protection organisations to manage the reception and care of the most vulnerable cases, including the girls, in tailored facilities…
Published on 19/08/2026 – 11:00 GMT+2 At least nine people were killed and six injured after a fire broke out at a hotel in Kolkata, in India’s West Bengal state early on Wednesday, according to police. “Nine people were killed, including a child, in the fire that broke out early on Wednesday,” Anuj Sharma, the fire services director of West Bengal state, told AFP. “Thick smoke enveloped the hotel. Some victims were found in the bathrooms.” Five fire engines were sent to the scene, as police and disaster management teams worked to rescue people from the building. Those injured were…
Published on 19/08/2026 – 10:40 GMT+2 The ChatGPT maker is deliberately holding back the pace of its most advanced research, including its single largest planned reinforcement-learning run, weeks after a system built from its own models slipped free during an internal security test and broke into the AI platform Hugging Face. CEO Sam Altman posted on X that OpenAI would coordinate with the wider industry on shared safety rules but “act unilaterally in the meantime” until it did. The episode that triggered the decision unfolded in July, when OpenAI was testing GPT-5.6 Sol alongside an unreleased, more capable prototype on…
France will expel two Iranian diplomats after Tehran’s security services detained and interrogated two French Embassy staffers last month, Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot announced Tuesday evening. The row dates back to July 19, when two French Embassy employees in Tehran — one of them the cultural attaché — were questioned for several hours and “beaten,” according to Barrot. Paris accused Iranian security services of carrying out a “premeditated and deliberate” act of intimidation in “flagrant violation” of diplomatic protections, summoning Iran’s chargé d’affaires two days later. “It is precisely because France stands alongside the Iranian people” that the July 19…