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Aukus row: European Union demands apology from Australia over France’s treatment before trade talks
Sep 22, 2021 09:46The European Union is demanding answers – and an apology from Australia – over its treatment of France as the fallout from the Aukus announcement threatens to delay a key trade deal.
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France tries to delay EU-Australia trade deal amid AUKUS fallout
Sep 22, 2021 09:40The A$90bn (£48bn) submarine contract was the centrepiece of French-Australian cooperation in the Indo-Pacific, but the Australians have instead opted to form a US-UK-Australia pact dubbed AUKUS, and build eight nuclear-powered submarines likely to be delivered between 2030 and 2040.
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Thousands protest against COVID-19 health pass in France
Aug 03, 2021 18:30Thousands of people protested in Paris and other French cities on Saturday (July 31, 2021) against a mandatory coronavirus health pass for entry to a wide array of public venues, introduced by the government as it battles a fourth wave of infections.
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Dutch PM sorry for early reopening as France tightens COVID rules
Jul 14, 2021 08:52As governments in multiple EU states struggle to curb an increasingly alarming surge in COVID-19 cases, the Dutch Premier, Mark Rutte, has apologized and conceded that restrictions reinstated this weekend were lifted too soon.
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Le Pen’s far-right party suffers blow in French regional elections
Jun 29, 2021 18:33Marine Le Pen’s far-right party has suffered a serious electoral blow when it failed to win a regional election in its stronghold in the south of France. The Rassemblement National (RN) had pinned its last chances on taking the Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur region (PACA) after emerging victorious from last week’s first-round vote, although by a small margin.
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‘Slap in the face’ for Macron as French voters shun local elections
Jun 22, 2021 20:32The French President, Emmanuel Macron’s centrist party received what one of its own MPs called a “slap in the face” in regional and department elections on Sunday (20 Jun 2021). The president and his government failed to mobilise supporters, with an estimated 68% of voters shunning the polling stations – an unprecedented rate of abstention.
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The West practicing vaccine apartheid at a global level (1)
Apr 28, 2021 14:16A comparison of the number of doses of vaccines manufactured by the rich countries with the number of doses used by them in their own countries provides a clear picture of the extent of vaccine apartheid practiced by these countries. An article in The New York Times in late March reveals, “Residents of wealthy and middle-income countries have received about 90% of the nearly 400 million vaccines delivered so far.”
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OPCW ignores critics of its cover-up, imposes sanctions on Syria
Apr 26, 2021 20:27Syria has condemned a Western-backed resolution passed by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) over the country’s alleged use of toxic arms, saying the illegitimate move encourages foreign-sponsored terrorists to go ahead with their crimes in the Arab country.
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Western media conspiracy theories about Hezbollah distract from Lebanon’s real issues
Apr 07, 2021 14:28Nasser Qandil, a well-known Lebanese journalist warns about an underway campaign that seeks to alter the country’s political configuration in a way that would mount excessive pressure on the resistance.
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PM Johnson fears spread of France's ‘sad’ COVID situation to UK
Apr 04, 2021 08:33UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned of the possible spread of what he described as the “very sad” COVID-19 situation in France to the United Kingdom.