Around 77,000 hectares have been affected by the fires in Spain, minister for ecological transition, Sara Aagesen, said on Sunday. She added that the wildfire burning in the Ávila region is the largest in the country’s recent history. Among the residents evacuating surrounding areas is Olga Congacha, 50, who had to hastily flee her village…
When President Trump arrives in France on Monday just hours after taking in a series of cage fights outside the White House, U.S. allies will watch to see whether he approaches the annual Group of 7 summit there as an opportunity for collaboration or yet another brawl. Mr. Trump’s positions on trade, the war in…
The last time the leaders of the world’s richest countries gathered in Évian-les-Bains, France, in June 2003, the United States had just invaded Iraq over the strident objections of France and Germany. President George W. Bush got chilly handshakes, but he and the other leaders worked to maintain the veneer of like-minded countries uniting to…
Seeking to break a deadlock over the Strait of Hormuz, President Emmanuel Macron of France on Wednesday called for the United States and Iran to reopen the contested waterway even before they agree on a truce to end the two-month war. “All parties must lift the blockade of the Strait immediately and unconditionally,” Mr. Macron…
Shorouk Express “I am trying to explain to the Chinese that their trade surplus is untenable and that they are killing their own customers, mainly by not importing much from us,” the French leader said. A similar imbalance exists between Europe’s €232 billion investment stock in China — the total value of accumulated portfolio investments…
Shorouk Express Nato must be ready to respond to hybrid threats, top commander says Nato must be ready to respond to increasing hybrid threats in order to defend its member states’ territory, the alliance’s top military commander said. Hybrid threats refer to both military and non-military tactics designed to undermine an adversary’s security and typically…
Shorouk Express Lecornu’s first 27 days on the job were brought to a screeching halt Monday, just 14 hours after he named his cabinet. Its composition of mainly Macron allies and a few conservatives infuriated opposition parties and some members of the minority government coalition, making his future untenable. The 39-year-old, who had blamed the…
Shorouk Express Macron’s ultimate goal is to show there is a global counterweight to Trump’s support for Israel’s war in Gaza, and to ramp up the pressure for peace. Comparisons are already being made with France’s defiance under Jacques Chirac to stand up to the U.S. over the invasion of Iraq in 2003 — a…
Shorouk Express Speaking with the press a day earlier, Merz had already expressed his doubts, saying it was “obviously not going to come to a meeting between President Zelenskyy and President Putin.” Trump has said there will be “consequences” if the meeting does not take place. At Friday’s ministerial talks in the southern French city of…
Shorouk Express In a series of interviews with French and American media, Macron praised Trump’s decision to, in the U.S. president’s words, provide Ukraine with a “very good security guarantee.” “The big change in recent days is that he has acknowledged the need to guarantee Ukraine’s security,” Macron told Paris Match. What that security guarantee…
