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French PM Lecornu forces 2026 budget through parliament without a vote

France's Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu invoked Article 49.3 of the Constitution on Tuesday to force part of his 2026 budget ​bill through the deeply divided lower house of parliament ‍without a vot...

14hFrance 24PoliticsImpact

US forces seize seventh sanctioned oil tanker linked to Venezuela

US military forces boarded and took control of a seventh oil tanker connected with Venezuela on Tuesday, as part of the Trump administration’s broader efforts to take control of the South American cou...

2hSouth China Morning PostPoliticsImpact

Trump administration faces backlash over Nvidia H200 AI chip sales to China

Witnesses and lawmakers at a foreign affairs hearing blasted the Trump administration’s approval for the sale of Nvidia’s H200 AI chips to China and called for it to reverse the decision, as the White...

6dSouth China Morning PostPoliticsImpact

French PM Lecornu inches closer to passing budget bill without vote

France’s government is set to meet Monday to discuss a highly controversial budget bill that has left Prime Minister Sebastian Lecornu and political parties at an impasse. Lecornu is moving closer to ...

1dFrance 24Politics

Vance to meet Danish and Greenlandic officials in Washington on Wednesday

US Vice President JD Vance is scheduled to meet Denmark’s foreign minister and Greenland’s counterpart in Washington this Wednesday to discuss the Arctic island, a semiautonomous territory of Denmark,...

6dFrance 24PoliticsImpact

Trump taps former UK PM Tony Blair for Gaza 'board of peace'

US President Donald Trump on Friday gave a key role in post-war Gaza to former British prime minister Tony Blair and appointed a US officer to lead a nascent security force. Trump named members of a b...

3dFrance 24PoliticsImpact

French opposition parties expected to file votes of no-confidence

French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu is set to ram his budget bill through parliament without a vote after conceding it was a "partial failure" Monday after weeks of stalled negotiations. French ha...

16hFrance 24PoliticsImpact

Hungary sets parliamentary election date

Hungary’s president announced on Tuesday that the next parliamentary election will be held on April 12th. Although the official campaign begins in a month, the race is already shaping up to be the mos...

6dFrance 24PoliticsImpact

Sen. Mark Kelly is suing the Pentagon. Legal experts say veterans' rights are at stake.

Sen. Mark Kelly said his lawsuit is about fighting back on the Pentagon's crackdown on speech. Heather Diehl/Getty Images Senator Mark Kelly sued Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the Pentagon's spe...

5dBusiness InsiderPoliticsImpact

Greenland: Meeting set in Washington as Trump mulls taking the island

Talks are set to take place today between Danish and US officials over the future of Greenland, following remarks by Donald Trump suggesting the Danish territory should become part of the United State...

6dFrance 24PoliticsImpact

Not ‘Trump-compatible’? China expert Rudd exits Australia’s US ambassador role

Australia’s former prime minister and a prominent China scholar, Kevin Rudd, will step down as ambassador to the United States a year ahead of schedule, a move some analysts say underscores a fundamen...

Jan 13South China Morning PostPoliticsImpact

China, Canada poised to reset trade ties after Trump’s tariffs force rethink

Canada and China appear ready to kick-start trade talks after years of strained relations, with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s visit to Beijing this week coinciding with both countries question...

Jan 13South China Morning PostPoliticsImpact

UK PM Starmer says trade war in no one’s interest after Trump's tariff threats

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Monday that US President Donald Trump’s threat of tariffs against allies over Greenland is “completely wrong” and a trade war is in no one’s interest. Trump sa...

1dFrance 24PoliticsImpact

Trump links Greenland ambitions to Nobel Peace Prize snub

US President Donald Trump linked his aggressive stance on Greenland to last year’s decision not to award him the Nobel Peace Prize, telling Norway’s prime minister that he no longer felt “an obligatio...

1dFrance 24PoliticsImpact

Senate passes a bill that would let nonconsensual deepfake victims sue

The Senate passed a bill that could give people who've found their likeness deepfaked into sexually-explicit images without their consent a new way to fight back. The Disrupt Explicit Forged Images an...

Jan 13The VergePoliticsImpact

Stars and Stripes staff fear the Pentagon is coming for the newspaper — and their jobs

Stars and Stripes newspaper Ullstein bild via Getty Images The military's independent newspaper, Stars and Stripes, is facing new pressure from the Pentagon. Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said the o...

3dBusiness InsiderPoliticsImpact

UK digital ID plans will no longer be mandatory

The United Kingdom has walked back plans to make its upcoming digital ID scheme a mandatory requirement for working adults. While the UK government remains "committed to mandatory digital right-to-wor...

6dThe VergePoliticsImpact

Trump wants to control Greenland. See inside its sole US military base.

Pituffik Space Base in Greenland. Ritzau Scanpix/Thomas Traasdahl via REUTERS Pituffik Space Base was established in 1951 as part of a defense treaty between the US and Denmark. Base operations includ...

5dBusiness InsiderPoliticsImpact

Gavin Newsom is heading to Davos with plans to call out Trump

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is headed to Davos. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images California Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to call out President Donald Trump at the World Economic Forum. Newsom has been a vocal...

4dBusiness InsiderPoliticsImpact

The world's central bankers are rallying around Fed chair Jerome Powell in his fight with Trump

Powell typically abstains from directly engaging with Trump's personal attacks. Al Drago/Getty Images The world's most senior bankers have rallied around embattled Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell....

Jan 13Business InsiderPoliticsImpact
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