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Czechs break up Belarus spy network

A spy network being built in Europe by Belarus was broken up by intelligence services from the Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania, the Czech counterintelligence agency said. The Czech agency, also known as BIS, said in a statement that a team of...

AP

France

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Parliament votes to oust PM

France’s parliament has brought down the government over its plans to tame the ballooning national debt, deepening a political crisis that is weakening the euro zone’s second-largest economy at a time of steep global tensions. President Emmanuel Macron, who is facing calls from the opposition to dissolve parliament and resign, will instead hunt for his fifth prime minister in less than two years. His office said he would appoint one in the next few days. The next government’s most pressing task will be to pass a budget, the same challenge Bayrou faced when he took office. Securing the backing of a very divided parliament will be equally hard. ”You have the power to bring down the government, but you do not have the power to erase reality,“ Bayrou told lawmakers before losing the confidence vote, with 364 votes against him and only 194 in his favour.

Reuters

Russia

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EU aims for US sanctions solidarity

The EU’s top sanctions official was in Washington with a team of experts to discuss what would be the first coordinated transatlantic measures against Russia since US President Donald Trump returned to office. With Moscow continuing to pound...

Reuters

POPULAR ARTICLES

Security

frank

Czechs break up Belarus spy network

A spy network being built in Europe by Belarus was broken up by intelligence services from the Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania, the Czech counterintelligence agency said. The Czech agency, also known as BIS, said in a statement that a team of...

AP

France

frank

Parliament votes to oust PM

France’s parliament has brought down the government over its plans to tame the ballooning national debt, deepening a political crisis that is weakening the euro zone’s second-largest economy at a time of steep global tensions. President Emmanuel Macron, who is facing calls from the opposition to dissolve parliament and resign, will instead hunt for his fifth prime minister in less than two years. His office said he would appoint one in the next few days. The next government’s most pressing task will be to pass a budget, the same challenge Bayrou faced when he took office. Securing the backing of a very divided parliament will be equally hard. ”You have the power to bring down the government, but you do not have the power to erase reality,“ Bayrou told lawmakers before losing the confidence vote, with 364 votes against him and only 194 in his favour.

Reuters

Russia

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EU aims for US sanctions solidarity

The EU’s top sanctions official was in Washington with a team of experts to discuss what would be the first coordinated transatlantic measures against Russia since US President Donald Trump returned to office. With Moscow continuing to pound...

Reuters