François Bayrou ousted as French PM after confidence gamble backfires

• 9:39 PM

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Prime Minister François Bayrou’s nine-month tenure ended in political collapse Monday, after lawmakers ousted the veteran centrist in a crushing defeat. Once seen as President Emmanuel Macron’s best hope to steady a fractured government, Bayrou saw his p

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How flames of French political crisis are being fanned by foreign bot networks

• 9:05 PM

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In the midst of France’s political crisis, low trust in politics and politicians is creating fertile ground for fake news stories to spread. And an anti-government campaign calling for a nationwide shutdown on September 10th is being pushed and manipulat

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Art and musical Oasis: Michael Spencer Jones shares with us 'a view from within'

• 9:04 PM

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As the Gallagher brothers sell out multiple stadiums across the US and take America on a new musical Oasis for another generation, FRANCE 24's Gavin Lee has the pleasure of welcoming legendary British art photographer and music video director Michael Spe

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Leaders call "to design the world's next climate economy" in 2nd Africa Climate

• 8:11 PM

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53 African heads of state gathered in Addis Abeba for the launch of the 2nd continental climate summit this afternoon. Many called for increased cooperation, more funds & a focus on climate justice for the continent, which suffers disproportionately from

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Macron to seek yet another PM after French lawmakers oust Bayrou government

• 8:07 PM

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French President Emmanuel Macron is expected to appoint a new prime minister "within days" after lawmakers ousted François Bayrou in a no-confidence vote Monday, marking the collapse of France’s third government since snap elections last year. The politi

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From soft power to digital firepower: France steps up fight against disinformation

• 7:48 PM

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France is ramping up its fight against online disinformation with a new digital tool, known as French Response, aimed at countering hostile allegations from abroad. FRANCE 24 spoke with Dr Maxime Audinet, an influence strategies researcher at the Institu

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Major bills, reforms grind to a halt amid French government collapse

• 7:29 PM

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The collapse of the French government means that many legislative projects that were underway are now grinding to a halt. In addition to the big question of how to balance the budget, the items now on hold include everything from the proposed reform of p

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French MPs ‘relieved’ and ‘worried’ after confidence vote topples PM Bayrou

• 7:25 PM

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French MPs are both "relieved" and "worried" to see Prime Minister François Bayrou go after a confidence vote toppled the government on Monday, FRANCE 24 French politics editor Marc Perelman said. While French lawmakers overwhelmingly voted to oust Bayro

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French govt toppled in confidence vote: Macron seen as 'lame duck' on European stage

• 7:24 PM

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It's the second time the French government has fallen since the 2024 snap legislative elections called by President Emmanuel Macron, and there is no end in sight to the country's political instability, FRANCE 24 Brussels correspondent Dave Keating said.

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French PM Bayrou loses confidence vote

• 6:26 PM

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France’s parliament voted to topple the government of Prime Minister François Bayrou on Monday after the PM surprised even his own allies by calling a confidence vote to resolve a months-long deadlock over his austerity budget. Bayrou will tender his res

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Who will Macron appoint as next PM after Bayrou ousted?

• 5:56 PM

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Legislators toppled France’s government in a confidence vote on Monday, a new crisis for Europe’s second-largest economy that obliges President Emmanuel Macron to search for a fourth prime minister in 12 months. But who that replacement will be remains u

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'A victory for the French people' as Bayrou's government toppled

• 5:55 PM

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Claire Lejeune, a French MP and member of the far-left France Unbowed, tells France 24's Clovis Casali that the toppling of prime minister François Bayrou's government in a confidence vote Monday was a "victory for the French people" as his government ha

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France: PM Bayrou government toppled in confidence vote

• 5:53 PM

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French lawmakers have voted to topple PM François #Bayrou after just nine months in office. He’s the 5th prime minister since 2022. #France now faces fresh #political turmoil.

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Ivory Coast bars ex-president Gbagbo, opposition leader from presidential race

• 5:22 PM

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Ivory Coast’s constitutional council has excluded former president Laurent Gbagbo and opposition leader Tidjane Thiam from the October 25 presidential election. Both were removed from the electoral register – Thiam over nationality issues and Gbagbo due

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French PM Bayrou's government toppled in confidence vote

• 5:16 PM

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France's parliament voted on Monday to bring down the government over its plans to tame the ballooning national debt, deepening a political crisis and handing President Emmanuel Macron the task of finding a fifth prime minister in less than two years.

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🔴 Live: French PM Bayrou's government toppled in confidence vote, plunging France into renewed crisis

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France no-confidence vote: Le Pen urges Macron to call snap legislative polls

• 4:58 PM

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French far-right three-time presidential candidate Marine Le Pen on Monday urged President Emmanuel Macron to call snap legislative elections in a bid to end months of political deadlock as the country's parliament prepared to cast ballots in a no-confid

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A look back at Bayrou's nine-months as French PM

• 4:57 PM

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French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou was set to fall in a confidence vote in parliament on Monday, bringing an end to a 9-month spell as head of the French government, but one that was never likely to be plain sailing.

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'Intergenerational fairness': In final speech to parliament, Bayrou unveils how pension is funded

• 4:55 PM

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As France's embattled Prime Minister makes one final appeal to French Parliament, FRANCE 24's François Picard welcomes Renaud Foucart, Economist and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics at Lancaster University Management School. While Mr. Fouca

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'Very little suspense as to what will happen next' as French PM set to lose confidence vote

• 4:25 PM

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Eleonore Caroit, MP for French citizens living in Latin America and the Caribbean and a member of Emmanuel Macron's Renaissance party, tells France 24's Clovis Casali that there is little doubt French Prime Minister François Bayrou will lose Monday's no-

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Sint Maarten: Plane accident on landing

• 4:08 PM

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A WestJet plane experienced a hard landing at an airport in the Caribbean country of Sint Maarten, the airline said on Sunday. No passengers were reported injured. 

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Veron: 'Distinguishing the real French political crisis from the lack of a immediate financial one'

• 4:08 PM

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François Bayrou faces a crucial confidence vote just nine months into his tenure, plunging France into fresh political turmoil and heightening pressure on President Macron. Bayrou shocked allies by calling the vote himself, aiming to end a deadlock over

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French PM says confidence vote 'a test of truth', warns of debt threat

• 3:52 PM

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France's excessive debt pile is "life-threatening" for the country, Prime Minister Francois Bayrou said Monday as he defended billions of euros of budget cuts ahead of a confidence vote expected to bring down his government, which he labelled a "test of

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Undistributed aid in Gaza? NGOs dispute claims from pro-Israel influencers

• 3:39 PM

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Is undelivered aid piling up in Gaza? Since late July, influencers invited by the Israeli army have been filming the Kerem Shalom border crossing in Gaza. They show what they claim is a stockpile of humanitarian aid, thus supporting the claim that Israel

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'Very unlikely' Bayrou swayed any MPs in final speech before confidence vote

• 3:11 PM

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France's over-indebtedness is putting its survival at stake, Prime Minister François Bayrou warned ahead of a confidence vote he is expected to lose later on Monday. But the prime minister's remarks, his last before the vote, are unlikely to have won ove

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Trump administration seeks Supreme Court order to maintain foreign aid spending freeze

• 2:59 PM

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The Trump administration on Monday requested an emergency order from the Supreme Court to uphold its decision to withhold nearly $5 billion in foreign aid. The move follows a federal judge’s ruling that the administration’s budget maneouvre – known as a

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Bayrou offers 'doom and gloom' in final speech before confidence vote

• 2:39 PM

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French Prime Minister François Bayrou warned the country’s excessive debt pile is "life-threatening" as he made his final speech to parliament ahead of a confidence vote that he is widely expected to lose. France 24’s French politics editor Marc Perelman

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Is new alliance in works, extending from French Socialists, Ecologists, Communists to centre-right?

• 2:25 PM

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French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou was set to fall in a confidence vote in parliament on Monday after just nine months in the job, sparking fresh political uncertainty for France and piling pressure on President Emmanuel Macron. Bayrou blindsided even

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No doubt IS group 'will rise again' if US forces withdraw from Iraq, Barzani says

• 2:25 PM

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In an interview with FRANCE 24, the head of Iraq's Kurdistan Democratic Party, Massoud Barzani, warned that the planned withdrawal of US-led coalition forces from Iraq would lead to a resurgence of the Islamic State (IS) group. Barzani also addressed vio

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The Bright Side: Emil the moose wins hearts in Austria after weeks on the move

• 2:23 PM

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A rare visitor is causing a stir in Lower Austria: a moose known as "Emil" has been roaming the region for weeks, drawing crowds and online fans. Believed to have wandered in from Poland, the animal even disrupted rail traffic in St. Pölten. Authorities

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REPLAY: French PM Bayrou makes final speech to parliament before confidence vote

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French Prime Minister François Bayrou made his final speech to parliament Monday ahead of a confidence vote in which his government is widely expected to be toppled. Defending the budget proposals that led to the vote, Bayrou warned France's excessive de

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Tunisia: Gaza-bound flotilla welcomed by more than a 1,000 people

• 2:13 PM

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The Global Sumud Flotilla is carrying humanitarian supplies for Palestinians in Gaza, who have been under an 18-year Israeli blockade by land, air and sea.  The flotilla includes hundreds of activists from around the world, including Nelson Mandela's g

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Norway votes in a closely fought election with wealth tax in focus

• 1:20 PM

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Norwegians began voting Monday in an election where much of the campaigning has focused on domestic issues including the cost of living, healthcare, inequality, education and the possibility of abolishing a wealth tax, which has divided the two main camp

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Palestinian gunmen open fire at Jerusalem bus stop in deadly attack

• 1:19 PM

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Two Palestinian gunmen opened fire at a bus stop on the outskirts of Jerusalem on Monday, killing six people in what police described as "a terrorist attack," one of the deadliest in the city in the past few years.

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Hamas says ready to negotiate as Trump gives 'last warning'

• 1:18 PM

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Hamas said Sunday it was ready to "immediately sit at the negotiating table" following what it described as "some ideas from the American side aimed at reaching a ceasefire agreement". Their statement came soon after US President Donald Trump said he had

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France no-confidence vote: How the process works and what could happen next

• 1:06 PM

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France's parliament is expected to oust Prime Minister Francois Bayrou on Monday after just nine months in office in a vote of no-confidence. The session will start with a speech by Bayrou before the 10 parliamentary groups will respond, which will then

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French PM's 'fight for survival not looking good' as no-confidence vote nears

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France risks losing its third prime minister in 12 months on Monday, with incumbent François Bayrou facing a parliamentary confidence vote that he called but is widely expected to lose, heralding more instability for the European Union’s second-largest e

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Watch live: French PM François Bayrou addresses National Assembly ahead of confidence vote

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Bollendorff's #PARADISE brings humanity, use of mysticism, to life in the face of natural disasters

• 1:01 PM

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The 37th edition of the Photojournalism Festival is underway in Perpignan, France and FRANCE 24's Eve Irvine welcomes Photojournalist and Documentary Filmmaker Samuel Bollendorff. Amid global conflict, war, and natural disasters climate change, Mr. Bolle

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Swiss villages threatened by melting glaciers

• 11:58 AM

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The reality of disappearing glaciers is no longer a distant phenomenon: back in May, a glacier collapsed, triggering a massive landslide that buried the Swiss village of Blatten. Switzerland finds itself on the front line of global warming. As a result,

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Photojournalist Nicole Tung on the environmental and human toll of overfishing

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Seventy percent of fish stocks in Southeast Asia have been depleted in just 40 years, and both the environmental and the human cost is getting worse. That's the conclusion of a new photojournalism report which focuses on the fishing industry in the regio

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Israel has accepted Trump's Gaza ceasefire proposal, foreign minister says

• 10:52 AM

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Israel has accepted a Gaza ceasefire proposal from U.S President Donald Trump, Israel's Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said on Monday. Speaking at a press conference with his Hungarian counterpart in Budapest, Saar said that Israel was ready to accept a fu

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France: Bayrou government on the brink as confidence vote looms

• 10:50 AM

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France's fourth prime minister in less than two years, François Bayrou, faces defeat in a confidence vote on Monday, tipping the euro zone's second-biggest economy further into political and economic paralysis. France 24's Philip Turle takes a look at wh

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'Chronicle of an expected fall': French papers predict PM Bayrou's ouster

• 10:46 AM

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PRESS REVIEW – Monday, September 8: The French papers are widely covering Prime Minister François Bayrou's vote of confidence later this Monday, which he is expected to lose. Part of the French press is already discussing who Bayrou's successor might be.

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Munich Auto Show goes big on EVs as Europe's car industry struggles

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Europe's largest car show kicks off in Munich, as industry leaders warn the continent's auto sector is facing existential threats. But first: French political turmoil threatens to further drag down the country's stock market as borrowing costs rise.

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Jerusalem: At least 5 killed and several injured in shooting attack

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At least five people were killed and 15 others injured in a shooting attack in Jerusalem. Media reports say it is the country’s deadliest shooting attack in nearly a year.

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Argentina's Milei suffers major setback as opposition party wins provincial vote

• 9:50 AM

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Argentina's opposition Peronist party triumphed on Sunday in legislative elections in the key province of Buenos Aires, leaving President Javier Milei's ruling party in a distant second place, the provisional official tally showed.

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Trump says ready to move on new Russia sanctions after massive attack on Ukraine

• 9:49 AM

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US President Donald Trump on Sunday said he was prepared to move forward on new sanctions on Moscow, hours after Russia fired its biggest-ever aerial barrage at Ukraine. Russian missiles and drones rained down across Ukraine early Sunday, killing four pe

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Israel hits another residential tower as troops push Gaza offensive

• 9:25 AM

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Israel's army said it bombed a Gaza City residential tower Sunday, the third such high-rsie to be struck in as many days, after issuing evacuation orders, just hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the military was "deepening" its assau

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Deadly shooting attack at Jerusalem bus stop

• 9:22 AM

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Paramedics said at least five people were killed in a shooting attack in Jerusalem after two attackers opened fire at a bus stop at a busy intersection in north Jerusalem. Paramedics said an additional 15 people were injured, including six in serious con

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Supertramp founding frontman Rick Davies dies at 81

• 9:09 AM

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Rick Davies, co-founder and lead singer of British rock band Supertramp, whose soulful voice and songwriting helped shape hits like “Goodbye Stranger” and “Bloody Well Right”, has died at 81 after a decade-long battle with cancer, the band announced Sund

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Shooting attack in Jerusalem kills at least six

• 8:59 AM

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At least six people were killed and 12 injured when two gunmen opened fire at a crowded bus stop in Jerusalem on Monday, Israeli police and paramedics said. Israeli media reported the gunmen also boarded a bus and opened fire inside before being neutrali

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French doctor accused of poisoning patients to show off resuscitation skills goes on trial

• 8:12 AM

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French anesthetist Frédéric Pechier, accused of poisoning 30 patients, 12 of whom died, in a twisted bid to show off his resuscitation skills, goes on trial Monday. The trial in the eastern city of Besançon follows a seven-year investigation that shocked

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Macron may 'look within his own ranks' to find the new PM

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French President Emmanuel Macron could soon be looking for a new prime minister, and this time, the urgency of the situation means he needs to move quickly. One option would be to turn to the Socialist party. The left-wing group might demand a gesture to

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Watch live: French PM François Bayrou addresses National Assembly ahead of confidence vote

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France’s parliament looks likely to remove Prime Minister François Bayrou on Monday, following only nine months in office, after the PM surprised even his own allies by calling a confidence vote to resolve a months-long deadlock over his austerity budget

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Alcaraz dominates Sinner in US Open final to win sixth Grand Slam

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Carlos Alcaraz defeated Jannik Sinner in the US Open final. He claims his sixth Grand Slam title.

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Australia's triple 'mushroom murderer' jailed for life with 33 years non-parole

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An Australian judge on Monday sentenced Erin Patterson to life in prison with parole after 33 years for murdering three people with toxic mushrooms, ending a trial that drew global attention. She was convicted in July of serving the lethal meal at a 2023

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Argentina's Milei suffers major electoral setback as left wins Buenos Aires province

• 1:08 AM

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Argentina’s President Javier Milei suffered a blow Sunday as his party was trounced by the left in Buenos Aires provincial elections, a contest widely viewed as a test of his government’s support. The defeat comes on the eve of mid-term polls, raising do

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French singer-songwriter Jehnny Beth releases second solo album

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This week on arts24, FRANCE 24's Jennifer Ben Brahim welcomes French singer-songwriter Jehnny Beth. The founder of UK band Savages collaborated with big names such as Idles and Depeche Mode before making her debut as an actress. She is now back with a se

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French far-right leader Marine Le Pen's graft conviction appeal trial will start January 13, 2026

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French far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s appeal trial over the misuse of EU funds will begin on January 13, 2026, the Paris Court of Appeal announced Monday. The National Rally party figurehead was sentenced in March to four years in prison and five years

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