China and Brazil on Friday sought to advance their long-standing bid to mediate peace between Russia and Ukraine on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, a diplomatic effort marked by broad objectives yet few specifics. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi voiced hope that the international community would convene a peace conference with a…
The United States and France have said they were given advance notification of China’s intercontinental ballistic missile test this week while other countries, including Japan, Australia and New Zealand, have asked for an explanation from China. The US said the warning had helped to “avoid miscalculation” and was “step in the right direction”, but it…
The United States and France are working on a temporary 21-day ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot told the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday. “In recent days, we have worked with our American partners on a temporary ceasefire platform of 21 days to allow for negotiations,” Barrot told the…
A balcony above a trading floor inside the Euronext NV stock exchange in Paris, France, on Monday, March 13, 2023. Nathan Laine | Bloomberg | Getty Images LONDON — European stocks were slightly lower Wednesday, paring gains from the previous session on the back of Chinese stimulus measures. The pan-European Stoxx 600 traded around 0.1%…
A French photojournalist working for the Associated Press in Hong Kong was denied entry to the city earlier this month, the Post has learned. A source said Louise Delmotte was questioned by authorities when she arrived at the city’s airport as a tourist on September 14. She was then turned away and repatriated to France….
Steel worker at the blast furnace tap of the at the Salzgitter AG steelworks on March 02, 2020 in Salzgitter, Germany. Maja Hitij | Getty Images News | Getty Images Europe looks to be heading toward a downturn as its biggest economies, Germany and France, battle political and economic woes at home. Business activity in…
In European Union circles, last week will be remembered for European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s consolidation of her position as the most powerful politician in Brussels. She vanquished her rivals and pitted her new commissioners against each other in a grand reshaping of the bloc’s executive functions, blurring the lines of reportage and…
Egypt’s reported purchase of Chinese fighter jets is a sign of Beijing’s increasing leverage in the Middle East as the region tries to diversify its military procurement to rely less on the United States, analysts have said. According to Bulgarian defence news portal Bulgarian Military, the Egyptian defence ministry reportedly placed its first order for…
India’s overtaking of China in key global gauges will likely usher in a bigger influx of foreign flows, giving equities in the South Asian country another boost. India has overtaken China in the MSCI AC World IMI Index with a 2.35% weighting compared to a 2.24% for the latter, according to a Morgan Stanley report…
Faces don’t get much more expressive than Bernard-Henri Lévy’s. The thick eyebrows go up and down, powered variously by rage, incredulity and sadness; the lips purse, pout and curl with derision. But when the 75-year-old French philosopher describes the scene at what was left of the Kfar Aza kibbutz in southern Israel on October 10…