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French President Emmanuel Macron speaks during a ceremony to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the village Bormes-les-Mimosas during World War II, south-eastern France, August 17, 2024
FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron held talks today with key political players in a bid to form a new government.
This comes after legislative elections last month resulted in no party winning the majority at the National Assembly, France’s lower house of parliament.
Mr Macron refused to appoint a new prime minister until the Paris Olympic Games were over, opting instead to continue with a caretaker administration from his own neoliberal coalition even though they came in second at the polls.
ROGER McKENZIE reports on the west African country, under its new anti-imperialist government, taking up the case for compensation for colonial-era massacres
For Egypt trade trumps the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians, but how long can the country’s ‘misleaders’ – and others in the region – continue their indifference against the popular will of their own people, asks ROGER McKENZIE
