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Sep 28, 20243 min read
Analysis-France's new government is fragile but don't write it off just yet
PARIS - It's a mess, but it might just hold. Despite looking like the most unstable French administration in recent history, despised by...
Sep 20, 20242 min read
France nears new government as Barnier proposes cabinet to Macron
PARIS - France edged closer to having a new government, more than two months after a hung election, as new Prime Minister Michel...
Sep 19, 20241 min read
India's cabinet accepts recommendation to hold simultaneous national, state elections
NEW DELHI - India's cabinet has accepted a recommendation to hold simultaneous elections to state assemblies and the national parliament,...
Sep 19, 20242 min read
India's Jammu and Kashmir votes in first regional poll in a decade
SRINAGAR - Voters queued outside polling stations in India's Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday to vote in the first provincial election...
Sep 12, 20242 min read
Factbox-Michel Barnier's first challenges as France's new PM
PARIS - French conservative Michel Barnier, named prime minister by President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday, faces an overflowing in-tray...
Aug 29, 20243 min read
Harris and Walz start Georgia bus tour as Democrats' hopes rise
HINESVILLE, Georgia - Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and her running mate Tim Walz campaigned together on Wednesday in...
Aug 27, 20242 min read
France's Macron won't name leftist prime minister, prolonging political crisis
PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron ruled out naming a prime minister from the leftist New Popular Front alliance and will instead...
Jul 30, 20242 min read
Factbox-Who is running for UK Conservative Party leadership?
LONDON - Britain's opposition Conservatives have begun the process of choosing a new leader to replace former prime minister Rishi Sunak...
Jul 11, 20243 min read
Explainer-Coalition or chaos? What lies ahead after France's election
President Emmanuel Macron has urged the mainstream parties in France's hung parliament to form a coalition able to muster a "solid"...
Jul 11, 20243 min read
France's Macron, breaking post-vote silence, urges mainstream coalition
PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday called on mainstream parties to join forces to form a solid majority in the...
Jul 10, 20243 min read
Melenchon, 'divisive' supremo of France's hard-left, poses coalition conundrum
PARIS - France's left has a Jean-Luc Mélenchon problem. The towering firebrand of France's hard-left, Melenchon's France Unbowed (LFI)...
Jul 9, 20243 min read
French left wants to rule but centrists demand a role
PARIS - French political leaders from the left-wing bloc that came first in Sunday's legislative election said they intended to govern...
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