BANGKOK (AP) — Global shares advanced Monday after Wall Street had its worst day since May following the release of weak U.S. jobs data. France’s CAC 40 added 0.8% in early trading to 7,609.44, while the German DAX rose nearly 1.0% to 23,702.42. Britain’s FTSE 100 edged up 0.4% to 9,108.28. U.S. shares were set…
When Zhang Dayong lay in a pool of blood on a pavement in Rome after being shot six times, few suspected a link to Italy’s storied textile hub of Prato. But a “hanger war” is raging in the city near Florence – turning Europe’s largest apparel manufacturing centre and a pillar of Made in Italy…
In the quest to harness the power of the stars, one of the greatest challenges lies not in mastering fusion, but in finding materials strong enough to contain it. At the heart of a nuclear fusion reactor is an ultra-powerful superconducting magnet, operating at temperatures near absolute zero and under immense magnetic stress. For decades,…
France Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot on Saturday denounced as “despicable” videos of Israeli hostages held in Gaza posted by Hamas’s armed wing and by another Palestinian Islamist group. French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot looks on, during a press conference at the Foreign Ministry in Nicosia, Cyprus July 31, 2025.(Reuters) “Despicable, unbearable images of the Israeli…
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United States President Donald Trump has said it will be difficult to make a trade deal with Canada after it announced that it would back Palestinian statehood, following the examples of the United Kingdom and France amid growing international condemnation of Israel’s war on Gaza. “Wow! Canada has just announced that it is backing statehood…
The Palestinian death toll in Gaza passed 60,000 on Tuesday. The world’s leading authority on food crises said the “ worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out” in the territory of over 2 million people as starvation deaths rise. And the United Nations said far too little food and other aid was entering the…
A murder enquiry was launched in northern France today after a UK-bound migrant was shot seven times by suspected people smugglers. The deceased – a man in his late teens or early 20s – is the latest victim of a surge of shootings around a camp at Loon-Plage, on the outskirts of Dunkirk. ‘He was…
LONDON — The leaders of Britain, France and Germany demanded Israel allow unrestricted aid into Gaza to end a “humanitarian catastrophe,” after French President Emmanuel Macron announced that his country will become the first major Western power to recognize a Palestinian state. The joint statement, issued after a call between Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and…
By Tim Cocks JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -The insecurity plaguing West Africa is no longer France’s concern, its state minister for ties with Francophone countries and international partnerships said on Friday, a week after Paris handed over control of its last major military base in the region. Thani Mohamed-Soilihi was speaking to journalists in a phone briefing…