Staff at France Médias Monde, France Télévisions and Radio France are striking May 24th against a proposed merger of France’s public broadcasting sector championed by Culture Minister Rachida Dati.
Dati has called for a transitional phase with a joint holding company for public broadcasting starting on January 1, 2025, followed by a merger into a new entity one year later. Some 16,000 employees would be affected.
"It's invented, isn't it, James?" Labour's Yvette Cooper said.
He also revealed what will happen if Joe Biden provokes Trump at this week's debate.
Critics on social media suggested the chyron meant one thing.
When the history of this election campaign comes to be written, one question will perplex the compilers more than any other: why now? The Tory officials and police officers being investigated for alleged gambling law infractions by betting on a snap contest in July will have secured very good odds for the simple reason that no one was expecting it.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. and Russian defense chiefs spoke by telephone on Tuesday in rare communication between the two powers and with tensions rising after Moscow blamed Washington for a deadly Ukraine attack over the weekend on the Russian-annexed Crimea. The two sides gave widely divergent accounts of the conversation - the first one between U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Russia's new Defense Minister Andrei Belousov, who replaced Sergei Shoigu in May.
This is just a hunch, but I imagine some of you are as sick as I am of hearing that a vote for Reform is a wasted vote. Let me tell you what a wasted vote is. Casting my ballot in December 2019 with a song in my heart for the Conservatives. Nothing I voted for came to pass. Worse than that, in many cases the alleged Tory government did precisely the opposite of what I wanted. Every Conservative principle I held dear trashed.
Experts called out the callous behavior within the Russian armed forces after drone footage showed a soldier shooting a wounded comrade.
The outcome of the general election is now considered such a foregone conclusion that the post-mortem examination is being conducted while the corpse is still twitching. Many pundits and politicians seem to think that the Government’s imminent demise can be explained by its failure to listen to one faction or another.
Dear readers, to those who have quite rightly concluded in this silliest of silly seasons that the country is going to the dogs, apologies. It is time for a new metaphor of decline; Britain is for the birds. And I’m not even referring to Swiftmania; if only our ills really could be cured with friendship bracelets and a loud chorus of Shake It Off. Somehow, amid all the other crises that beset us, seagull-psychos have us in their claws.
The Biden administration is moving towards lifting a de facto ban on American military contractors deploying to Ukraine, four US officials familiar with the matter told CNN, to help the country’s military maintain and repair US-provided weapons systems.
Tuesday’s contests in Colorado, New York, South Carolina and Utah saw the first incumbent House Democrat to lose in a primary this cycle, along with several losses for Trump-endorsed candidates. The progressive wing of the Democratic Party suffered a major blow when Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) lost to Westchester County Executive George Latimer, a moderate,…
Rep. Eric Burlison's attack on the president fell flat on social media.
The former House speaker slammed the former president’s rhetoric after she was asked about her husband’s recovery from a 2022 hammer attack.
CNN's Erin Burnett laughed at Ty Cobb's suggestion.
By the time the 2010 general election came around, David Tennant had already come and gone as the lead actor in Doctor Who and was carving out another starring role in Labour MPs’ election literature.
National Rally win may hamper bloc’s ability to get things done and pose existential question over French role
And the final result could be even worse for the Conservatives.
With eyes on China, the US military is searching the Pacific for more airfields from which its aircraft can fight and operate.
Last Week Tonight host looks into surprise UK general election and last 14 years of Conservative rule in Britain
Stellantis to decide in ‘less than a year’ whether to keep Ellesmere Port and Luton production lines open amid ‘soft’ EV demand
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