Mark Carney’s brand of centrist politics and his invitation to floor crossers with conservative convictions into the Liberal Party’s ranks have reshaped the country’s political economy.
Caracas’ iconic macaws threatened by vanishing palm trees – NPR
Caracas’ iconic macaws threatened by vanishing palm trees NPR
Desperate Putin forced to call up planes dating from 1940s in humiliating move
Russia’s long-delayed An-2 replacement has been heavily hampered by redesign and engine problems.
Nathalie Baye, icon of French cinema, dead at 77
Nathalie Baye, who starred in some 80 films over a career spanning five decades, has died at the age of 77, her family announced on Saturday. She had been suffering from a type of dementia.
Angola prepares for the arrival of Pope Leo XIV
As part of his African tour, Pope Leo XIV is visiting Angola, where around 40% of the population is Catholic. The visit is highly significant for the country’s large Catholic community, who see it as an important moment of recognition and connection w…
Car ploughs into crowd ‘at speed’ outside Melbourne comic convention leaving at least one dead
A CAR has ploughed into a crowd of people outside a major comic convention in Australia, killing one person and seriously injuring another. Chaos unfolded outside the popular Supanova Comic Con and Gaming event in Melbourne just after 5pm on Saturday. …
Iran closes Hormuz Strait again over US blockade with ships mid-transit
Iran’s military declared the Strait of Hormuz closed again on Saturday, its military command said, hours after reopening it and with more than a dozen commercial ships passing through the vital waterway. The toing and froing over the strait cast doubt…
How the UK builds defence advantage through scale-up
Professor Simon Harwood, Strategy and Technology Director at Leonardo UK, argues that closer collaboration between primes and scale-ups is key to turning UK innovation into deployable defence capability.
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Not Pompeii or Chernobyl – abandoned town lays ‘trapped in time’ and buried in concrete
There is a town that was completely destroyed in a natural disaster, and it is buried under concrete to this day.
Cameroon: Pope Leo’s pointed message to Biya
No Pope has spoken to Paul Biya this way.As Cameroonians grow fearful of their futures, #PopeLeo’s pointed message against tyranny is necessary, explains Father Jean-Luc Enyegue.More on #F24Debate ➡️ https://go.france24.com/iyu