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  • NewsRFI

    Macron and Xi have mountain outing and hope to ease tensions

    French President Emmanuel Macron was on Tuesday hosting Chinese leader Xi Jinping at one of his childhood haunts in the Pyrenees mountains as he put pressure on Beijing not to support Russia's war against Ukraine and to accept fairer trade. Early Tuesday afternoon Xi, his wife Peng Peiyun, and the Chinese delegation arrived in their extended Boeing 747 in a rainy Tarbes in the French Pyrenées, from where the went to the village of Bagnere-de-Bigorre to have lunch with Macron and his wife Brigitt

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  • NewsThe Independent

    Kristi Noem’s bid for top NRA job revealed as dog killing saga continues

    Ms Nome allegedly offered to walk away from her governorship early if she was offered the NRA job

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  • PoliticsThe Independent

    Speaker Johnson says meetings with Marjorie Taylor Greene ‘not a negotiation’ as she threatens to oust him: Latest

    The Georgia Republican wants the speaker to block Ukraine aid and defund Jack Smith’s probes into Donald Trump

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  • NewsFrance 24

    Europe’s election campaigns are under the constant threat of foreign interference

    François-Xavier Bellamy, the top candidate for the conservative Les Républicains party in the upcoming European elections, revealed Monday that he had been targeted by an attempted cyberattack launched by a group believed to be linked to the Chinese government. Coming soon after Socialist Party candidate Raphaël Glucksmann’s announcement that he was targeted by what seemed to be a mass disinformation campaign on social media, Bellamy’s declaration is a stark reminder of the threat of foreign int

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  • LifestyleThe Telegraph

    Signs of midlife boredom that mean you could be on the brink of a crisis

    How many of the same things do you do in exactly the same order virtually every single day? From the eggs cooked a certain way for breakfast and our commute on the same train every morning, to our evening slump on the sofa with a glass of wine. Far more of us are stuck in a rut than we might like to think – particularly during midlife, when a plethora of competing demands on our time make us cling all the tighter to tried-and-tested routines.

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  • NewsThe Guardian

    Israeli forces say they have control of Gaza side of Rafah crossing

    Israel says it is beginning mission to ‘take out’ Hamas brigades in city, as aid officials say flow of supplies through crossing has halted

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  • NewsStoryful

    34 New Swiss Guard Recruits Pledge Loyalty to Pope Francis

    Thirty-four new recruits to the Swiss Guard, Vatican City’s standing army, pledged their loyalty to Pope Francis in a traditional swearing-in ceremony on Monday, May 6.Footage shared by the Slovak Embassy to the Holy See and the Sovereign Military Order of Malta on Monday shows the new guards parading in formation across the St Damasus Courtyard, accompanied by marching band musicians.The date of the annual induction ceremony commemorates the “heroic sacrifice of 147 Swiss Guards who died while

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