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Macron appoints Sébastien Lecornu as France’s new prime minister
PARIS (Realist English). French President Emmanuel Macron has appointed former defense minister Sébastien Lecornu as the country’s new prime minister,...
Norway’s Store begins coalition talks after narrow election win
OSLO (Realist English). Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store, whose Labor Party emerged as the largest force in Norway’s parliamentary election,...
Macron under pressure as French parliament ousts Prime Minister Bayrou
PARIS (Realist English). French President Emmanuel Macron is facing his deepest political crisis yet after lawmakers voted on Monday to...
UK debt crisis fuels cabinet shake-up: Rayner out, Lammy promoted
LONDON (Realist English). Britain’s Deputy Prime Minister and Labour Party deputy leader Angela Rayner has been forced from office amid...
ECB’s Rehn warns investors not to dismiss further rate cuts as inflation risks tilt lower
FRANKFURT (Realist English). A senior European Central Bank official has cautioned markets against ruling out further interest rate cuts this...
Germany approves voluntary military service plan amid coalition dispute
BERLIN (Realist English). Germany’s cabinet on Wednesday approved legislation to introduce a new voluntary military service, after last-minute wrangling within...
Brussels prepares emergency action to rescue EU aluminium sector hit by Trump tariffs
BRUSSELS (Realist English). The European Commission is drafting emergency measures to support the bloc’s struggling aluminium industry after U.S. President...
France’s Bayrou calls confidence vote on deficit plan
PARIS (Realist English). French Prime Minister François Bayrou said on Monday he would put his deficit-reduction plan to a confidence...
Lukashenko holds talks with Iranian President Pezeshkian in Minsk
MINSK (Realist English). Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko met with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on August 20 at the Palace of...
Putin and Xi reaffirm strategic partnership in New Year video talks
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russian President Vladimir Putin held a video conference with Chinese President Xi Jinping on February 4, marking...
Pompeo hints at US involvement in unrest and attacks in Iran
TEL AVIV (Realist English). Former US secretary of state and ex-CIA director Mike Pompeo has made a rare public statement...
Khamenei warns of regional war amid US military build-up in the Gulf
TEHRAN (Realist English). Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei warned on Sunday that any US attack on the Islamic Republic would...
Trump warns Iran as US carrier group moves closer, raising fears of imminent military clash
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The risk of open conflict between the United States and Iran intensified after US President Donald Trump...
Star Wars without fiction: how space became the next battlefield
MOSCOW (Realist English). “Star Wars” stopped being science fiction long ago. Unfortunately, over ten thousand years of civilisation, humanity has...
Dadivank: The Legacy of Christ’s Apostles in Artsakh
YEREVAN (Realist English). In Artsakh, before the ethnic cleansing and forced deportation – simply put, genocide – carried out by...
An unusual phenomenon at the Church of the Holy Savior in Shushi
YEREVAN (Realist English). In the distant year 1979, as a third-year university student, I used to visit the Church of...
War with Iran seen as inevitable, Armenia warned of looming regional storm
YEREVAN (Realist English). The war with Iran is drawing ever closer. And once again, this pulls Armenia into a zone...
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