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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...
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...
France summons US ambassador over claims Macron failed to curb antisemitism
PARIS (Realist English). France has summoned US ambassador Charles Kushner after he accused President Emmanuel Macron of failing to address...
France, Germany and UK warn of UN sanctions “snapback” on Iran without renewed nuclear talks
NEW YORK (Realist English). France, Germany and the UK have formally warned the United Nations that they are ready to...
France to recognize Palestinian state in September
PARIS (Realist English). French President Emmanuel Macron announced on Thursday that France will officially recognize the State of Palestine in...
Macron urges UK and France to rebuild ties: ‘Let’s not allow the Channel to grow wider’
LONDON (Realist English). French President Emmanuel Macron has called on the United Kingdom and France to leave behind the divisions...
Starmer and Macron show unity — but behind the smiles, tensions over Trump and trade simmer
LONDON (Realist English). UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron are projecting a renewed era of Anglo-French...
Putin, Macron discuss Iran crisis and reaffirm Russia’s conditions for Ukraine settlement
MOSCOW (Realist English). On July 1, Russian President Vladimir Putin held a detailed phone conversation with French President Emmanuel Macron,...
France’s soaring debt threatens Macron’s €100bn defence ambitions
PARIS (Realist English). France’s ambitions to dramatically scale up defence spending — and cement its role as a leading European...
Azerbaijan provided its territory for strikes on Iran: source
MOSCOW (Realist English). Iranian sources claim that Azerbaijan has provided its territory for strikes against the Islamic Republic, and this information...
155 billionaires vs. 150 million people: Zyuganov on the social catastrophe in Russia
MOSCOW (Realist English). Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov presented the pre-election program "Victory...
‘Behind dry laws are living people and destinies’: Lawyer Narek Petrosyan on replacing justice with convenience
MOSCOW (Realist English). Narek Petrosyan is a criminal defense lawyer who made himself. He overcame many obstacles on his path to the...
«The Kurdish card is a weapon of major powers»: Yaşar Yakış on why Turkey missed its chance to solve the Kurdish issue
ANKARA (Realist English). Yaşar Yakış — a Turkish diplomat and statesman who served as Turkey's Minister of Foreign Affairs, ambassador to Saudi...
Merz vs Macron: how German military spending is splitting the EU
BERLIN (Realist English). Less than a month after historian Liana Fix published an essay on the "perils of German power", she received an...
The Great Divide: Capitalism and Socialism in the Battle for Humanity’s Future
MOSCOW (Realist English). The world economic system has reached a point of no return. The conflict between the classic market model...
A century of violence from the Jeddah massacre to the killings in Kobani: how Turkey exterminated Arabs
ISTANBUL (Realist English). The long and bloody history of the Turkish state's relations with the Arab population — both Muslim and...
US-Iran talks collapse, Netanyahu orders strikes on Hezbollah
TEHRAN (Realist English). The outgoing week saw the complete breakdown of US-Iranian peace talks mediated by Pakistan, alongside a parallel escalation...
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