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France is voting in key elections that could force Macron to share power with the far right
By Barbara Surk And Helena Alves, The Associated Press on July 7th, 2024
PARIS (AP) – Voting is underway in mainland France on Sunday in pivotal runoff elections that could hand a historic victory to Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally and its inward-looking, anti-immigrant vision – or produce a hung parliament and political deadlock. French President Emmanuel Macron took a huge gamble in dissolving parliament and calling ... Read More »
1 responseFrance is voting in a key election that could force Macron to share power with the far right
By Barbara Surk And Helena Alves, The Associated Press on July 7th, 2024
PARIS (AP) – Voting is underway in mainland France on Sunday in pivotal runoff elections that could hand a historic victory to Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally and its inward-looking, anti-immigrant vision – or produce a hung parliament and political deadlock. French President Emmanuel Macron took a huge gamble in dissolving parliament and calling ... Read More »
1 responseMacron votes in French legislative elections that could force him to share power with the far right
By Barbara Surk And Helena Alves, The Associated Press on July 7th, 2024
PARIS (AP) – French President Emmanuel Macron voted in high-stakes legislative elections Sunday that could force him to share power with the rising far right. Macron called the surprise vote after the anti-immigration, nationalist National Rally made huge gains in the June 9 European elections, taking a huge gamble that French voters would block the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!France is voting in key elections that could see a historic far-right win or a hung parliament
By Barbara Surk And Helena Alves, The Associated Press on July 7th, 2024
PARIS (AP) – Voting has begun in mainland France on Sunday in pivotal runoff elections that could hand a historic victory to Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally and its inward-looking, anti-immigrant vision – or produce a hung parliament and years of political deadlock. French President Emmanuel Macron took a huge gamble in dissolving parliament ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!4 killed in shooting during party at a Kentucky home; suspect died after a vehicle chase, police say
By The Associated Press on July 6th, 2024
FLORENCE, Ky. (AP) – Four people were killed and three others were wounded in an early Saturday shooting during a party at a home in northern Kentucky, police said. The shooting suspect later died after fleeing the home and leading police on a vehicle pursuit that ended with the suspect’s car falling into a ditch, ... Read More »
1 response4 killed in shooting at Kentucky home; suspect died after vehicle chase, police say
By The Associated Press on July 6th, 2024
FLORENCE, Ky. (AP) – Four people were killed and three others were wounded in an early Saturday shooting at a home in northern Kentucky, police said. The shooting suspect later died after fleeing the home and leading police on a vehicle pursuit that ended with the suspect’s car falling into a ditch, police said. Police ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Reformist Pezeshkian beats hard-liner to win Iran presidential election, promising outreach to West
By Jon Gambrell And Amir Vahdat, The Associated Press on July 6th, 2024
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian won Iran’s runoff presidential election Saturday, besting hard-liner Saeed Jalili by promising to reach out to the West and ease enforcement on the country’s mandatory headscarf law after years of sanctions and protests squeezing the Islamic Republic. Pezeshkian promised no radical changes to Iran’s Shiite ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Reformist President-elect Pezeshkian promises to serve all Iranians in a victory speech
By Jon Gambrell And Amir Vahdat, The Associated Press on July 6th, 2024
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – Iran’s President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian has vowed to “˜serve all Iranians’ in a victory speech. Pezeshkian, a reformist candidate, spoke Saturday at the the mausoleum of the late Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, addressing journalists in a chaotic event. “In this election, I didn’t ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!New UK Prime Minister Starmer says controversial Rwanda deportation plan is ‘dead and buried’
By Jill Lawless And Brian Melley, The Associated Press on July 6th, 2024
LONDON (AP) – British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Saturday that he is scrapping a controversial Conservative policy to deport asylum-seekers to Rwanda. “The Rwanda scheme was dead and buried before it started,” Starmer said in his first news conference. “It’s never acted as a deterrent. Almost the opposite.” The move was one of Starmer’s ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Reformist Pezeshkian wins Iran’s presidential runoff election, besting hard-liner Jalili
By Jon Gambrell And Amir Vahdat, The Associated Press on July 5th, 2024
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian won Iran’s runoff presidential election Saturday, besting hard-liner Saeed Jalili by promising to reach out to the West and ease enforcement on the country’s mandatory headscarf law after years of sanctions and protests squeezing the Islamic Republic. Pezeshkian promised no radical changes to Iran’s Shiite ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Reformist Masoud Pezeshkian leads hard-liner Saeed Jalili in Iran presidential runoff election
By Jon Gambrell And Amir Vahdat, The Associated Press on July 5th, 2024
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian’s lead against hard-liner Saeed Jalili widened early Saturday to over 2 million votes as counting continued in Iran’s presidential runoff election. Mohsen Eslami, an election spokesperson, said Pezeshkian had 11.1 million votes, leading Jalili’s 9 million. He gave no total turnout figure as counting went ... Read More »
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