Man-made canals like Panama and Suez face unprecedented challenges from extreme weather patterns and geopolitical tensions that reveal the fragility of our global trade networks, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
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The second and final vote this weekend pits the National Rally against a ‘Republican Front’ of leftists and centrists — but will the more right-wing side of this hastily assembled pact hold up, or will it side with Le Pen, asks ARKA BHADURI
As climate change makes vast mineral deposits accessible, the island’s 56,000 residents face unprecedented pressure from Trump’s territorial ambitions while struggling to maintain their traditional way of life, writes JOHN GREEN
Student Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest and threatened deportation are terrifying — but the moribund Democrats are still failing to mount any meaningful resistance against the slide toward autocracy, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
From golf and football to Formula One, the kingdom uses unprecedented investments in global sport to divert attention from its persecution of journalists, dissidents and women, write BELLA KATZ and ROGER McKENZIE
With trade wars backfiring, allies resisting military demands, and approval ratings plummeting, Trump’s dangerous pursuit of colonial ambitions threatens to end the ‘American century’ with catastrophic conflict, warns CLAUDIA WEBBE
As Britain plans to increase military spending to 2.6 per cent of the GDP while health services face devastating cuts and drug costs soar, working-class Scots urgently need united resistance, argues DREW GILCHRIST
As the government moves to rein in academy freedoms, former darling of conservative education reform Katharine Birbalsingh cries ‘Marxism.’ Education columnist ROBERT POOLE examines how academisation has failed our children while enriching executives and empowering ideologues at the expense of democratic accountability
WITH Britain’s election being staged in the very middle of the two rounds of the French election, a “tale of two countries” is unfolding this week.
While the predictions for Britain’s election left relatively little room for speculation, the world will be eagerly watching as the French go to vote in the second round of their snap parliamentary election on Sunday July 7.
The first round of the French election took place on June 30 with 33.15 per cent votes cast in favour of Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally (RN), 27.99 per cent votes in favour of the leftist New Popular Front (NFP) alliance, and 20.04 per cent votes going to President Emmanuel Macron’s ruling centrist coalition Ensemble.
The popular support for the French far right in the outcome of the European Parliament’s election on June 9 was the precise threat under which President Macron dissolved the National Assembly and announced the snap election.
The same threat brought the hitherto fragmented leftist forces together. The NFP is a coalition formed by the Socialist Party, the Communist Party, the Greens, and the left-wing France Unbowed (LFI).
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