Shorouk Express On The Ground newsletter: Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly international news dispatch Two children aged three and five have been killed after a gas explosion in an apartment building in France. At least 13 people were injured with two…
Shorouk Express Nicolas Sarkozy has become the first former French head of state to be sent to prison since Philippe Pétain in 1945, and the first former European leader. An impressive record for Sarkozy, who was imprisoned on 21 October at the La Santé prison in Paris. The French ex-president was convicted on 25 September…
Shorouk Express Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email An Iranian migrant who returned to Britain after being deported as part of a ‘one in, one out’ deal is being “fast-tracked” back to…
Shorouk Express The freeze of the pensions law until the next presidential election in 2027 was significant concession to the Socialist Party. Retirement reform was considered a flagship achievement for French President Emmanuel Macron. “Uncertainty on public finances remains elevated ahead of the 2027 presidential elections,” S&P said in its statement. “One example of this is the new…
Shorouk Express BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 5. On October 5, French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu announced the composition of the new government, which includes 18 ministers, Trend reports. Twenty-six days after his appointment by President Emmanuel Macron, the former defense minister has retained a cabinet structure largely similar to that of his predecessor, François Bayrou, reappointing…
Shorouk Express Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email A family of three have become the first asylum seekers to arrive in UK as part of the government’s high-stakes new ‘one in, one…
Shorouk Express “The time has come because the emergency is everywhere,” he said. “The time for peace is now, because it will soon be too late to grab the moment.” Macron has led a diplomat push in recent months to get countries to recognize a Palestinian state at the United Nations annual get-together to ramp…
Shorouk Express Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email A second asylum seeker is challenging their deportation to France under Sir Keir Starmer’s “one in, one out” scheme at the High Court….
Shorouk Express Rubio said earlier this week that French President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to recognize Palestinian statehood had blown any chance of successful ceasefire talks between Israel and the Hamas militant group, echoing similar accusations made last month. Hamas walked away from negotiations “the minute, the day that the French announced their thing,” according to…
Shorouk Express The French minority government is widely expected be toppled in a confidence vote on Sept. 8, as opposition parties ignore Prime Minister François Bayrou’s appeal to them to support his 2026 budget plans. Bayrou’s finance minister, Eric Lombard, had warned that a collapse could spark so much turmoil that the IMF would…
